Manager, Endoscope Design 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 Future Forward group within Intuitive Surgical is searching for a Manager, Endoscope Design Engineering, to lead the team developing endoscope hardware for a novel robotic surgical platform. As an early member of the team, this role is an exciting opportunity to help define the eventual product from early prototypes through clinical trials and into product launch.

Essential Job Duties

As part of the Endoscope New Product Development team, the manager will:

• Lead the Endoscope Design Engineering team of mechanical and biomedical engineers to execute design work from early stage prototypes through product launch by:
  • Setting appropriate goals and milestones
  • Providing technical guidance to engineers
  • Driving schedule and budget planning and execution
• Divide work among team members based on individual skills and capacity
• Grow the team by identifying gaps and filling roles with top talent
• Coach, develop, and mentor team members to support their growth within the organization
• Work with peer managers and cross-functional organizations to develop plans and organizational solutions
• Support documentation of risks, requirements, specifications, and test results within Intuitive Quality system

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• 8 years experience as individual contributor in design engineering role
• 3 years experience managing engineers
• Participation in full design cycle from concept through launch
• Solid mechanical engineering fundamentals, technical proficiency in mechanism design and complex assemblies
• Translation of product requirements into engineering specifications and verifying design performance to requirements
• Failure mode analyses, designing mitigations to failure modes, and verifying performance of mitigations
• Strong communication skills and ability to create effective presentations
• Department planning, scheduling, and budgeting, as well as tracking and managing performance to plan

Required Education and Training

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or closely related field

Working Conditions

• None

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Managing Staff-level mechanical engineers
• Endoscope or catheter design experience