Manager, Mechanical Design Engineering
Intuitive (Intuitive Surgical)Peachtree Corners, GA, United States Not Remote Engineering JOB220359 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 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. Job Description Primary Function of the Position The Manager Mechanical Design Engineering leads cross-functional teams to maintain and improve the design, production, and service of the da Vinci® Surgical Systems. This includes determining root cause of complex problems with electro-mechanical components, manufacturing process and system performance. This also includes identifying mechanical design and manufacturing process solutions to improve performance, cost, and reliability, and perform the development, documentation, verification, and implementation of these solutions. The successful candidate must be a “player / coach” fcomfortable with some individual technical contribution as well as the leadership of deeply technical individual contributors. Essential Job Duties Leads cross-functional project teams to design, develop and verify modifications to robotic or other complex mechanisms. Investigate and determine root cause of latent and emerging design, manufacturing or material defects Develop, design, test, document, and implement solutions for these defects according to corporate standards and departmental operating procedures Identify, develop, and implement alternate part fabrication methods and sources to reduce hardware cost and/or improve strength of supply chain Develop and execute design verification/validation test protocols and document results in test reports Support product risk assessments, Corrective and Preventive Actions, and quality/regulatory audits as required Interface with teams across Intuitive including mechanical, software, systems analysis, manufacturing, test, supply chain, quality, regulatory, service, tech pubs, etc. Provide administrative leadership and control for planning, staffing, budgeting, and project/program cost tracking. Establish project teams, assign tasks, set priorities, establish metrics, and track progress against overall goals. Recognize and attract top talent, mentor, and train team members through one-on-one coaching as well as team wide initiatives. Support quality assurance, product reliability, and product regulatory initiatives in responding to customer concerns and other product requirements. Qualifications Required Skills and Experience Comfortable with all phases of the product development lifecycle including design, analysis, debug, verification, transfer to manufacturing, and sustainment. Understand concepts of FMEAs, design input/output, and requirement traceability Technical proficiency in mechanism design and robotics Design, manufacture and troubleshooting of electromechanical components and assemblies including brushless DC motors, brakes, encoders and other sensors Design, manufacture and troubleshooting of precision mechanical components including bearings, gears, ball screws and linear actuators Component selection and design for reliability and manufacturability…