Senior Mechanical Engineer; Vision Equipment

Position: Senior Mechanical Engineer (Vision Equipment)
Company Description 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  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.

Job Description

Job Description Primary Function of Position As Senior Mechanical Engineer in the Vision Equipment team you will use your mechanical engineering design and analysis skills to design, develop and deploy equipment to test, measure, and calibrate vision/optical imaging products. These products include endoscopes, fiber optic light sources and near-eye displays. Equipment will be used in a production manufacturing environment and needs to meet performance, safety, ergonomics, reliability, consistency, and capacity requirements.

Individuals in this role shall demonstrate precision mechanical design skills and work within cross-functional teams to develop custom optical & imaging test equipment.

Essential

Job Duties Develop and continuously improve test and calibration equipment for high-performance endoscopes for “mid-volume products. Activities include:

Design, specify, prototype, document, procure, assemble, qualify, implement, and improve test equipment mechanical components and equipment.

Work closely with engineering teams such as product development, test software, and process development to understand mechanical requirements, develop robust, reliable, and reproducible test and calibration equipment.

Documentation to include generating equipment specifications, validation protocols, assembly instructions, preventative maintenance, and calibration (PMC) in addition to CAD component and assembly drawings.

Analyze, debug and root cause measurement accuracy, reliability, repeatability, and reproducibility of equipment issues.

Project manage equipment development projects that will involve coordination with manufacturing and software development teams.

Qualifications Required Skills and Experience Minimum 8 years mechanical, equipment design engineering experience for a medium to high volume product.

Strong analytical skills to understand, analyze and improve the accuracy, repeatability, and reliability of measurement equipment.

Communication and documentation skills must be excellent. CAD experience (Solidworks).Required Education and Training BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Opto-Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechatronics, or related area.

Workinn Conditions None Preferred Skills and Experience

Experience with development of precision opto-mechanical test equipment preferred.

New product introduction/development experience desirable.

Additional Information Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees,…