Manager, Systems HW Test Engineering

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 Position

The Systems HW Test Engineering team at Intuitive is devoted to assuring safe, reliable, and effective products that meet or exceed patient, surgeon, and hospital expectations. The team plays a vital role in new product development, product engineering, and the verification of da Vinci Systems. Manager, Systems HW Test Engineering will manage a team of test engineers and work shoulder to shoulder with the team and partner teams to develop and execute verification testing to meet product development timelines and continuously improve the team’s verification processes.

Essential Job Duties

Team Leadership

• Manage a team of test engineers with mechanical, mechatronic or similar backgrounds

• Hire, train, and develop team members’ technical and soft skills

• Ensure team members are motivated, engaged and enthusiastic

• Establish group objectives, metrics and individual work goals consistent with overall product development schedules and/or process improvement milestones for the team

• Assign tasks, set priorities, and track progress

• Execute resource management and control for planning, staffing, budgeting, and tracking

• Provide vision for the test engineering team and foster an environment that encourages creativity and crisp execution

• Champion best practices for verification

Cross-functional Leadership

• Influence cross-functional project teams in the design, development, verification, and validation of new products with complex functionality

• Prioritize and negotiate project and resourcing tradeoffs with project managers, engineering leaders, and lab resources

• Form and maintain strong partnerships with cross functional partners in parallel organizations

• Ensure successful, on-time completion of activities; communicates constraints and recommends preferred mitigation to direct management when successful activity completion is at risk.

• Effectively communicates across various levels of the organization at core team meetings, product review board and design reviews

Technical Work Execution and Leadership

• Generate test plans and protocols, execute tests, and write reports for verification tests and can guide the team in the same.

• Strong ability to write good requirements and translate them into harmonized testable methods that employ appropriate test method validation strategies and guide the team in the same

• Perform root cause investigation into test failures and guide the team in the same

• Identify, create and improve processes, test methods, and test fixtures to drive operational efficiencies and guide the team in the same

Qualifications

• Required Skills and Experience

Technical Skills:

• Experience using tools and measuring equipment (Force Gauge, Calipers, Instron, etc.)

• Ability to perform mechanical engineering calculations needed to support equipment design, including dimensional analysis

• Experience with SolidWorks or similar CAD software.

• Experience with MATLAB, Python, Arduino is preferred.

• Experience working with electro-mechanical systems is preferred

Other skills and abilities:

• Excellent attention to detail

• Excellent written and verbal communication

• Strong people management skills with the ability to deliver results while supporting the career development goals of team members.

• Enjoys problem solving; an excitement to get to the bottom of challenging technical problems and root cause analyses.

• Excellent organization skills, ability to prioritize multiple fast-paced activities simultaneously.

Integrity:

• · Accepting and adhering to high ethical, moral, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions, and when dealing with others

Commitment:

• · Must be available to work full-time and commute/relocate to Sunnyvale, CA to work onsite 5 days/week

• · Ability to travel (