Mechanical Design Engineer at Intuitive — Sunnyvale, CA

Primary Function

At Intuitive, we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. By combining ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints. We are looking for team members with exceptional character who have the capacity to simplify complex problems and the energy to deliver solutions urgently to our patients. The Mechanical Design Engineer is responsible for developing, documenting, and validating new product designs, as well as improving existing designs to meet the needs of our customers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead Design efforts to optimize performance, manufacturability and reliability of existing and future Da Vinci SP instruments.
• Maintain awareness of customer needs and requirements – develop new device concepts as well as continuously improving existing designs to meet those needs.
• Create product functional and design specifications
• Analyze and test product designs
• Develop vendors to manufacture components
• Develop initial fixtures and processes to assemble components
• Develop product assembly instructions
• Develop and perform component verification testing and product validation testing
• Support production of final product by troubleshooting process and component problems
• Provide engineering support to Manufacturing, Materials, Test Engineering, and Service to facilitate transfer of designs.
• Develop Design History Files per FDA requirements
• Investigate and determine root cause of both latent and emerging design, manufacturing or material defects
• Develop, implement, test and document solutions for these opportunities according to corporate standard and departmental operating procedures

Skill/Job Requirements:

• An excitement to learn and get to the bottom of challenging technical problems
• A passion for creating robust and reliable products
• BSME required, MSME preferred
• Minimum 2 years experience preferred
• Experience with small mechanism design, plastics, and/or disposable medical products are a strong plus
• Proficiency using CAD to design and document mechanisms; SolidWorks preferred
• Excellent organization, communication, and documentation skills
• Mechanical design and analysis skills, including statics, dynamics, kinematics, strength of materials and stress analysis
• Demonstrated knowledge of component manufacturing processes (including injection molding, stamping, machining, MIM, heat treatment)
• Medical product experience
• Experience with designing hardware products in a regulated industry for mission critical applications is desired; comfort with concepts of design input, design output, traceability, and risk analysis
• Familiarity with cleaning and sterilization processes and designing for sterilization
• Comfortable operating machine shop, measurement and test equipment

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