Industrial Design Intern

• Ways of Working:
  Onsite - This job is fully onsite.
• Employee Type:
  Intern (Fixed Term)
• Min. Salary Region 1: 0 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Professional 1 (5)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 0 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 Position

Industrial Designers at Intuitive help design next-generation products and solutions for robotic surgery systems and refine and evolve existing product lines. We are user-centered and hands-on, helping to translate insights into actionable design opportunities and successful user experiences.

As a natural collaborator, the Industrial design intern will work with our process partners (engineering, clinical development, human factors, user research, and marketing) on the framing and definition of future product opportunities. Focusing on the user experience aspects of the product, you will employ a growing understanding of user needs, ergonomics, form, proportion, color, materials, and manufacturing processes to resolve complex technical challenges into elegant solutions.

With an ability to explore, prototype and test a wide range of new ideas, the industrial designer visualizes opportunities to help build consensus on the right path forward. The industrial designer design is a skilled storyteller and crafts compelling presentations illustrating new user benefits and opportunities for Intuitive.

The industrial designer intern contributes to the definition and design of new products king with senior designers and partners, the industrial designer creates innovative human-centered design solutions that will improve user experience.

Learns and employs a user-centered design process to help frame problems and define opportunities.

Collaborates with other Product Design team members to contribute to the design of compelling, integrated user experiences.

Utilizes a range of creative 2D and 3D tools and techniques to develop design proposals.

With support from senior team members, distills strategic, technical and ergonomic requirements while developing a range of solutions that synthesize usability, utility, manufacturability, and desirability.

Works with product development and engineering partners and fellow designers early in the product development lifecycle to generate conceptual product designs and opportunities

Combines industrial design objectives with the objectives of our process partners.

Translates and captures brand attributes in compelling physical forms.

Generates functional and/or appearance prototypes to explore and validate design choices conceptually.

Participates in user research, usability testing, and clinical research labs

Delivers design proposals to engineering for production and executes with support from senior  members.

Required Skills and Experience

University Hiring Program Eligibility Requirements:

University Enrollment:
Must be currently enrolled in and returning to an accredited degree-seeking academic program after the internship.

Internship Work Period:
Must be available to work full-time (approximately 40 hours per week) during a 10-12 week period starting May or June. Specific start dates are shared during the recruiting process.

Required Education and Training

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