Sr. Product Development Engineer - Mechanical Design

Position: Sr. New Product Development Engineer - Mechanical Design
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:

The individual will lead design, development, and testing of components and sub-systems for existing and next generation Endoluminal instruments, steerable catheter-based devices, and accessories that will interface with a robotic system. This role serves as a key technical contributor and leader, responsible for complex design challenges, project leadership, and advancing solutions through the product development process. The candidate will work within a technical team and with outside suppliers to develop and evaluate new technology solutions, establish design requirements to meet customer and company needs, prototype and refine designs, and advance them through the product development process to commercialization.

The successful candidate must excel in a fast-paced team environment and be capable of creative and efficient problem solving while ensuring attention to detail and quality when faced with time pressures. The individual must possess the technical expertise to understand complex mechanical designs and a passion for integrating quality into products. A strong sense of shared responsibility and commitment to high product quality is essential.

Essential

Job Duties Design, prototype, troubleshoot, and optimize components and subassemblies of rigid and flexible catheter structures

Evaluate component and subsystem designs within the context of overall system performance, reliability, manufacturability, and user experience.

Establish technical direction, driving trade-off decisions, and influencing cross functional teams

Collaborate cross functionally to understand and drive clarity on clinical, usability, and business needs, and decompose these needs into design requirements.

Drive rigorous understanding of design risks by learning not just how a design behaves, but why.

Complete detailed drawings and conduct tolerance analysis statistical best practices appropriately.

Drive failure investigations using rigorous but efficient experimental plans.

Prepare protocols/reports/summaries/readouts to capture and communicate design progress and defend / propose design decisions.

Develop and improve test methods and assembly fixturing to support building and testing on prototypes.

Collaborate cross functionally with supplier engineers, manufacturing process development engineers.

Review design changes on existing products for impact on regulatory and manufacturing

Mentor and guide technicians and junior engineers.

Qualifications Required Education and Training
· Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

Required Skills and Experience Minimum 6 years of experience in a mechanical design or catheter design role.

Proficiency using CAD to create, fabricate, and document medical device designs.

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