Senior Design Engineer

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

Accessories serve as the interface with the da Vinci system and enable safe and effective robotic-assisted surgery. They may be reusable or single-use medical devices (consumables), with yearly volumes in the millions. Our customers interact directly with accessories in every surgical procedure, and they serve a critical role in customer satisfaction and patient outcomes.

The Sr. Mechanical Engineer will work on product development of a variety of Accessories. The successful candidate must excel in a fast-paced team environment and be capable of creative problem solving when faced with the time pressures and design constraints typical of product development. They must have a strong sense of ownership, shared responsibility, commitment to high product quality and be comfortable collaborating across organizational boundaries. Projects will include a mix of product improvements, component enhancements, cost savings and manufacturing improvements to enable significant volume growth.

Essential Job Duties

• 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

• Design, develop and document components and assemblies for surgical system accessories:

  • Review and understand product functional and design specifications.

  • Create, analyze, and test product designs and their components.

  • Research, understand and design to relevant product specific standards.

  • Develop, implement, test, and document solutions that meet clinical, functional and product requirements.

  • Designing for manufacturing and automation, sterilization processes and biocompatibility.

• Provide mechanical engineering expertise to support continuous production of high-quality surgical accessories to our customers:

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

  • Develop components and product mechanical drawings in a regulated environment for high volume manufacturing processes, including plastic injection molding, thermoset compression molding, machining.

  • Develop Design History Files per FDA requirements.

  • Adept in risk management and design control documentation.

• Support design for automation such that our product designs can enable technologies that allow volumes to continue to grow year over year.

• Help establish individual and team goals aligned with overall project and company goals.