Manager, Mechanical Design Engineering

• Ways of Working:
  Onsite - This job is fully onsite.
• Employee Type:
  Employee
• Min. Salary Region 1: 176300 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Management 3, Mgr (12)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 149900 USD

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 robotic-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.

Primary Function of the Position

The Manager Mechanical Design Engineering leads cross-functional teams to maintain and improve the design, production, and service of the da Vinci® Surgical Systems. This includes determining root cause of complex problems with electro-mechanical components, manufacturing process and system performance. This also includes identifying mechanical design and manufacturing process solutions to improve performance, cost, and reliability, and perform the development, documentation, verification, and implementation of these solutions.

The successful candidate must be a “player / coach” fcomfortable with some individual technical contribution as well as the leadership of deeply technical individual contributors.

Leads cross-functional project teams to design, develop and verify modifications to robotic or other complex mechanisms.

Investigate and determine root cause of latent and emerging design, manufacturing or material defects

Develop, design, test, document, and implement solutions for these defects according to corporate standards and departmental operating procedures

Identify, develop, and implement alternate part fabrication methods and sources to reduce hardware cost and/or improve strength of supply chain

Develop and execute design verification/validation test protocols and document results in test reports

Support product risk assessments, Corrective and Preventive Actions, and quality/regulatory audits as required

Interface with teams across Intuitive including mechanical, software, systems analysis, manufacturing, test, supply chain, quality, regulatory, service, tech pubs, etc.

Provide administrative leadership and control for planning, staffing, budgeting, and project/program cost tracking.

Establish project teams, assign tasks, set priorities, establish metrics, and track progress against overall goals.

Recognize and attract top talent, mentor, and train team members through one-on-one coaching as well as team wide initiatives.

Support quality assurance, product reliability, and product regulatory initiatives in responding to customer concerns and other product requirements.

Required Skills and Experience

Comfortable with all phases of the product development lifecycle including design, analysis, debug, verification, transfer to manufacturing, and sustainment.

Understand concepts of FMEAs, design input/output, and requirement traceability

Technical proficiency in mechanism design and robotics

Design, manufacture and troubleshooting of electromechanical components and assemblies…