Quality Engineer

Company Overview

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.

As Intuitive’s da Vinci® Surgical System becomes adopted by an increasing population of hospitals, surgeons and patients, we are building a focused team to drive reliability, quality, and safety to ever‑better levels. This focus applies to product in use, product in manufacturing, and product in design.

Help us powerfully drive our quality mission in our young and growing company by bringing your hands‑on experience in solving tough engineering problems, your fascination with complex electro‑mechanical devices, and your passion for the best practices to design, monitor, and improve product and process. Intuitive seeks a strong technical contributor who can help define practical, useful quality metrics and specifications, identify key opportunities for product improvement, launch quality initiatives, lead projects to implement these initiatives, and serve as an expert consultant to help solve the most technically challenging quality problems.

The ideal candidate possesses a broad base of experience and a high level of technical depth in at least two technical specialties applicable to medical robotics and is equally at home in the test lab and providing technical leadership to our team as we develop standard practices of our organization. You will not abide “process red tape”, instead passionately seeking the most efficient way to build in product quality.

And you will also coach, mentor, teach, and influence the engineering staff in best quality practices, data analysis, protocol development, and design for quality and reliability methods.

• Includes Design Control projects, production line support and failure investigation and providing guidance on Quality tools and project management.
• Quality Advocacy and Project Management
• Develop and apply corporate level quality metrics.
• Lead and project manage quality initiatives in one or more of these focus areas:
  Product Quality Data Quality Process Quality
• Product Development
• Handle projects of various product and subsystem types (electromechanical, Mechanical Hardware, instruments, Disposable accessories like seals, drapes etc).
• Ensure that the essential performance aspects are inspected for as part of repair test process.
• Provide guidance to other engineers regarding applicable regulatory and statutory requirements and the applicability of these requirements to the ISI products.
• Ensure process compliance through the design and development of comprehensive procedures including work instructions, flowcharts, forms, templates, checklists, and other product or process related documentation, for recording, evaluating, and reporting quality data.
• Support analysis and disposition of discrepant material.
• Support manufacturing/repair process changes: including review and approval of change orders (ECO’s), reviewing tooling qualifications, and proactively ensuring repair processes stay aligned with any new changes introduced in new product manufacturing
• Development of Master Validation Plans for new facilities and products which include the identification of components and processes that require specific attention to assure the quality of the overall products and…