Senior Industrial Designer

Base pay range: $/yr - $/yr.

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 Position

The Industrial Designers at Intuitive design next-generation products and solutions for robotic surgery systems as well as refine and evolve existing product lines. Industrial designers are very hands‑on, helping to translate real user insight into actionable design opportunities and empowering user experiences. As a natural collaborator and leader, the Senior Industrial Designer will work with their process partners (engineering, clinical development, human factors, user research, product management) and partner with other design team members on the framing, definition, and execution of future product opportunities.

Focusing on the physical aspects of the product, she/he employs an understanding of user needs, ergonomics, form, proportion, color, materials, and manufacturing processes that transform complex technical designs into elegant forms that are highly usable, beautiful, and manufacturable. With an ability to explore, prototype, and test a wide range of new ideas, the senior industrial designer generates and proves opportunities to builds consensus on the right path forward.

The Senior Industrial Designer is a natural storyteller and creates compelling presentations that illustrate new user benefits and opportunities for Intuitive.

• Employ a user‑centered design process to help teams frame problems and define opportunities.
• Individually lead projects, or partner with other industrial design team members on projects.
• Work with design leads and design managers on project planning.
• Distill technical and ergonomic requirements and develop a range of solutions that synthesize usability, utility, manufacturability, and desirability.
• Work with product development and engineering groups early in the product development lifecycle to provide user‑centered thought leadership and generate conceptual product designs and opportunities.
• Collaborate with other UX Team members to create compelling integrated user experiences.
• Participate in user research, usability testing, and clinical research labs.
• Actively participate in cross‑functional team meetings and other forums and proactively drive efforts forward.
• Utilize a range of 2D and 3D tools and techniques to develop and communicate design opportunities.
• Combine Industrial Design objectives with the objectives of our process partners.
• Translate and capture brand attributes in compelling physical forms.
• Generate functional and appearance prototypes to conceptually explore and validate design choices.
• Deliver manufacturable design proposals to engineering for production.

• 8+ years of experience in professional industrial design roles.
• An exceptional portfolio that demonstrates a methodical human‑centered design process and delivering successful products from concept to production.
• A proven track record of collaborating successfully with engineering and product marketing teams to develop designs and bring successful products to market.
• A comprehensive set of prototyping skills from quick low‑fi foam models to fabricating more complex functional learning…