NPD Engineer

Essential Job Duties
This role works closely with Mechanical electrical Softwareclinical electrical industrial design supplier engineering quality and manufacturing teams to ensure designs of medical equipment meet clinical and user needs and perform reliably and effectively in the this position you will be part of a team of talented engineers in a focused high energy collaborative work environment challenged to make sound decisions when faced with time pressures and ambiguous or incomplete information typical of issue troubleshooting and product development. You will be expected to
use design and analytical skills to conceptualize develop and productize product design.

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary technical teams Product Development and Clinical Development to translate clinical customer and user needs into engineering requirements specifications and product designs.
• Lead and support new product development activities across mechanical electrical and electromechanical systems from concept through design transfer and commercialization.
• Rapidly develop prototype test and iterate full-scale mechanical and electromechanical prototypes to meet product requirements and performance objectives.
• Design cables mechanical components assemblies and electromechanical interfaces and generate detailed engineering drawings specifications and documentation suitable for volume manufacturing.
• Apply Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Design for Assembly (DFA) and Design for Reliability (DFR) principles to develop scalable and cost-effective product designs.
• Develop and maintain product documentation including mechanical drawings BOMs specifications assembly documentation and engineering change documentation within a regulated environment.
• Drive system integration builds debugging verification and testing identifying and resolving mechanical electrical and system-level issues.
• Develop a strong understanding of overall system architecture functional interactions and interdependencies between mechanical electrical software and other subsystems.
• Lead and facilitate technical trade-off analyses for component selection including COTS components manufacturability reliability availability and risk.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering and Automation teams to develop fixtures tooling assembly processes and manufacturing methods for new products.
• Support the development and optimization of assembly processes and manufacturing equipment to enable efficient and repeatable volume production.
• Work closely with suppliers Sourcing and Buyers to evaluate component and manufacturing capabilities resolve technical issues and ensure designs are aligned with supplier processes and capabilities.
• Support design transfer and product transfer to manufacturing ensuring engineering requirements drawings specifications processes and documentation are complete and production-ready.
• Provide hands-on engineering support during pilot builds production builds and product ramp troubleshooting mechanical electrical component and process-related issues.
• Identify root causes of production and component problems and implement corrective and preventive actions to improve product quality manufacturability and reliability.
• Support verification and validation activities including test planning fixture development test execution and analysis of results.
• Work within applicable quality and regulatory processes ensuring product development and manufacturing activities comply with company procedures and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Participate in design reviews risk assessments and cross-functional technical reviews contributing to FMEA risk management and design control activities as required.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with Engineering Manufacturing Quality Regulatory Clinical Sourcing and external suppliers to drive projects toward key milestones.
• Help establish and achieve individual and team technical goals aligned with overall project objectives and company strategy.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• 3 years of experience in new product development product design manufacturing engineering or a related engineering role.
• Strong hands-on experience with mechanical and electromechanical product development.
• Experience developing products from concept/prototype through design transfer and volume manufacturing.
• Proficiency in mechanical design and engineering drawing practices including GD&T tolerancing BOM development and design documentation.
• Working knowledge of electrical systems cable/harness design connectors sensors motors PCBs and electromechanical components.
• Experience with rapid prototyping system integration debugging and hands-on testing.
• Strong understanding of DFM/DFA and manufacturing processes including machining injection molding sheet metal assembly and/or cable/harness manufacturing.
• Experience working with suppliers and manufacturing partners on component design manufacturability quality and technical issues.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex mechanical electrical and system-level problems.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional multidisciplinary team environment.

Required Education and Training
 Minimum B.S. Mechanical Engineering Industrial Engineering or similar with 5 years of experience or Masters degree plus 3 years.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience developing products in a medical device or other highly regulated industry.
• Experience working within FDA/ISO-regulated product development and quality systems.
• Experience with design controls risk management verification/validation and design transfer.
• Experience with CAD tools such as SolidWorks or equivalent.
• Familiarity with electrical CAD tools and cable/harness design.
• Experience developing manufacturing fixtures tooling jigs and assembly automation.
• Experience with pilot builds NPI production ramp.
• Curiosity and excitement to learn new subjects and get to the bottom of tough technical problems.

Working Conditions
 Ability to travel up to 20% time.

Additional Information :

Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.

Mandatory Notices

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Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the governments licensing process can take 3 to 6 months) or (ii) implement a Technology Control Plan (TCP) (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).  

For any Intuitive role subject to export controls final offers are contingent upon obtaining an approved export license and/or an executed TCP prior to the prospective employeesstart date which may or may not be flexible and within a timeframe that does not unreasonably impede the hiring need. If applicable candidates will be notified and instructed on any requirements for these purposes. 

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This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on
business need and/or on the selected candidates experience knowledge and skills.
Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the
candidates qualifications consistent with applicable law.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives benefits and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role as actual pay will be determined based on several factors including experience skills and qualifications. The target compensation ranges are listed.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time