Senior Mechanical Engineer - Equipment

Senior Mechanical Engineer - Equipment (Finance)

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.

Design and construct manufacturing equipment used to produce minimally invasive medical devices. This equipment will range in complexity from custom manual fixtures to semi-automated electro-mechanical systems, integrating work-holding, sensing, motion and vision control. This position will play a critical role in developing cutting edge manufacturing capabilities to enable the future of minimally invasive surgery.

The ideal candidate should have a solid understanding of the technical aspects of mechanical engineering and design. He/she will work closely with manufacturing and product design engineers to develop and sustain custom equipment for production use.

• Design and build in-house manufacturing equipment from concept to implementation.
• Create effective design solutions of mechanical assemblies from simple fixturing to more complex assembly and fixtures for automation equipment.
• Iterate rapidly by prototyping, testing, and examining product designs using engineering methods and techniques, including computer simulation and physical models.
• Create and manage project plans including schedules, budgets, and stakeholder updates.
• Develop documentation for equipment including specifications, assembly instructions, maintenance, and calibration procedures.
• Conduct effective design reviews of new equipment at all stages of development.
• Provide equipment-related technical support for on-going production operation and expansion.
• Establish and manage external resources (contractors, system integrators, vendors) in the planning and execution of equipment projects including duplication activities.

• Ensure manufacturing equipment designs meet functional, safety, ergonomic, and documentation requirements, to facilitate efficient production operations.
• Create and execute protocol documentation for equipment DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ validations.
• Provide controls-related root-cause analysis and technical support to on-going production operations.
• Support other equipment-related operations and duties as required.

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or similar; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 8 years' experience designing and developing automated manufacturing equipment.
• Proficiency with CAD (Solid Works highly preferred): designing parts with complex geometry, creating assemblies and creating detailed manufacturing drawings.
• Comfortable operating machine shop, measurement, and test equipment.
• Mechanical design and exploration skills, including statics, dynamics, and strength of materials, including stress analysis, fatigue, and thermal analysis.
• Experience in integration of mechatronics components such as sensors, motors, pneumatics, and motion and vision control components.
• Experience in working with precision parts, locating features, machine tolerances.
• Familiarity with pneumatic controls, sensors, vision systems, servos and other actuators.
• Excellent understanding of tolerance analysis and statistical methods. Fluency in ASME Y14.5 GD&T and tolerance stack analysis.
• Prior experience…