Senior Interaction Designer

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 Interaction Design is a key role at Intuitive, spanning multiple technical disciplines to craft user-friendly experiences for complex medical devices. We bring human-centered design to healthcare innovation and to the development of safe, effective, and confidence-inspiring robotic interfaces.

As a Senior Interaction Designer on the da Vinci team, you will drive design work and product innovation for da Vinci’s multiport and single port systems. You will be involved in all stages of product development from early concepting to final design and implementation, collaborating closely with other designers, Human Factors, engineers, product managers, and clinical experts.

This full-time on-site position is based in our Sunnyvale, CA office.

What You'll Bring You are a human-centered designer motivated by the opportunity to improve the life of patients and tackle novel challenges in healthcare

You thrive in highly technical domains, enjoying abstract and often unfamiliar design problems

You are comfortable designing for intelligent and semi-autonomous systems, with an understanding of how interfaces communicate system intent, state, confidence, limitations, and next actions to support safe and effective human oversight.

You are methodical and drive design decisions through insights and iteration

You value design craftsmanship, recognize quality, and expect high standards

You believe in collaboration, knowing that success hinges on working closely with other designers and cross-functional partners

You are emotionally intelligent and have excellent listening, communication and analytical skills that help you to adapt in a dynamic, cross-functional environment

What You’ll DoDesign world-class physical and digital interfaces, upholding superior design standards and methods to deliver product experiences that push the frontier of human-computer interaction.

Define the behavior of interactive and intelligent systems, driven by evidence and deep problem understanding. Design macro and micro interactions that communicate system capabilities, state, intent, confidence, and limitations, enabling users to effectively understand, supervise, and collaborate with increasingly sophisticated system behaviors while exploring, prototyping, and iterating through solutions to systematically narrow the solution space.

Deliver design solutions that are desirable, feasible and viable, proposingand articulating clear and compelling design solutions with sound rationales. You will take part in evolving the product’s design language to produce beautiful and functional interfaces.

Contribute to design documentation and testing, writing clear, comprehensive and detailed user interface specifications for others to build and test against. Consider potential…