Mechanical Engineer; Advanced Energy

Staff Mechanical Engineer (Advanced Energy)

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It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive
. As a global leader in robot-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion
—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare
, you’ll find your purpose here.

• At Intuitive, we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. We are looking for team members with exceptional character who have the capacity to simplify complex problems and the energy to urgently deliver solutions to our patients. We use creative techniques to solve hard problems in order to achieve optimal clinical performance, manufacturability and reliability.
• The Staff Mechanical Engineer is responsible for developing, documenting, and validating new product designs, as well as improving existing designs to meet the needs of our customers. The successful candidate will understand user needs and requirements, balance individual product-level requirements with system-level requirements, resolve complex mechanical design issues, and commit to the highest product quality. Projects will include a mix of new product development, product improvements, and sustaining projects to mitigate challenges related to capacity improvements and supply chain.

• Serve as a lead technical designer on cross-functional project teams.
• Design, develop and document components and assemblies for surgical devices.
• Perform risk analyses and develop design requirements.
• Document, analyze, and test designs according to corporate standard and departmental operating procedures, including stringent Design Control activities.
• Develop automated scripts to test designs and analyze data in Matlab, Python, or other scripting languages.
• Help develop initial fixtures and assembly processes in collaboration with manufacturing and automation teams.
• Provide mechanical engineering sustaining support for resolution of supply chain, manufacturing, and field issues.
• Support production of final product by troubleshooting process and component problems.
• Support the quality and regulatory processes.
• Translate clinical requirements and user needs to functional and technical specifications.
• Develop and collaborate on verification testing.
• Provide technical advice and mentoring to other mechanical engineers.
• Help establish individual and team goals aligned with overall project and company goals.
• Travel as needed to support projects.

• Proficiency using 3D CAD software to design complex mechanical assemblies (Solid Works preferred).
• Proficiency in GD&T, AGILE, SAP and Microsoft Office.
• Proficiency using Finite Element Analysis software for design analysis.
• Strong mechanical design and analytical skills.
• Strong knowledge of materials (mainly metal and plastic) and material properties.
• Experience with high volume manufacturing processes such as injection molding, MIM, stamping, machining, etc.
• Experience with rapid prototyping processes.
• Ability to design and redesign…