Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

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 Primary Function of Position Our Accessories interface between all aspects of the da Vinci system and enable safe and effective robot-assisted surgery. They may be reusable or single-use medical devices (consumables). Our customers interact directly with Accessories in every surgical procedure, and they serve a critical role in customer satisfaction and patient outcomes.

We are looking for a hands-on, technically strong mechanical engineer to design, develop, test, and document new product designs to meet the needs of our customers and our growing business.

The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer for Single-Port Accessories will work on product development of a variety of Accessories. Projects will include a mix of new product development, and product improvements for cost savings and manufacturability to enable significant volume growth. The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, have a passion for continuous improvement, and possess the ability to bring cross-functional teams together to solve problems.  

A strong sense of responsibility and project ownership is required, as well as a commitment to high product quality.

Essential

Job Duties Work within multi-disciplinary teams to design, develop, and document mechanical components and assemblies for surgical system accessories

Define functional requirements based on user and product-level requirements and international standards

Iterate rapidly by prototyping, testing, and analyzing product designs using engineering principles and techniques, including computer simulation and physical models

Create and maintain product specifications with careful consideration for critical functions and safety while designing for manufacturability and cost Support and participate in clinical and human factors evaluations to ensure positive user experience

Analyze risk of component failure (FMEA) and implement effective mitigations

Collaborate with manufacturing, purchasing, test engineering, and supplier engineering to facilitate transfer of designs into production

Provide mechanical engineering sustaining support for resolution of manufacturing and field issues

Characterize sources of variations in product performance and implement mitigations accordingly.

Investigate and determine root cause of design, manufacturing, or material issues.

Resolve complex engineering challenges through hands-on product testing and collaborate with subject matter experts both internal and external to organization.

Perform complex tolerance stack analyses to evaluate potential failures or performance concerns

Maintain Design History Files per regulatory and corporate requirements

Provide mechanical engineering expertise to support continuous production of high-quality surgical accessories to…