Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer develops, documents, and validates new product designs and improves existing designs to meet customer needs. The role is hands-on and technically focused, involving detailed engineering problem-solving and high-level assessment of risks and opportunities. Projects include sustaining existing products and developing new products, with emphasis on cost savings, manufacturability, volume growth, customer satisfaction, and reliability. The engineer works on Da Vinci SP instruments and collaborates across manufacturing, systems, clinical development, supplier, and quality functions. The position is fully onsite and has a day shift.
Requirements
- Minimum 6 years of experience preferred.
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) required; a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) is preferred.
- Proficiency using CAD to design and document mechanisms; SolidWorks is preferred.
- Good communication and documentation skills.
- Mechanical design and analysis skills, including statics, dynamics, kinematics, strength of materials, and stress analysis.
- Demonstrated knowledge of component manufacturing processes, including injection molding, machining, MIM, heat treatment, and 3D metal printing.
- Experience designing hardware products in a regulated industry for mission-critical applications is desired, including comfort with design inputs and outputs, traceability, and risk analysis.
- Ability to lift 30 lbs. without assistance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with small mechanism design, plastics, and/or disposable medical products.
- Excitement about learning and investigating challenging technical problems.
- Passion for creating robust and reliable products as part of a cross-functional team.
- Exceptional teamwork, collaboration, and personal project ownership.
- Familiarity with cleaning and sterilization processes and designing for sterilization.
- Comfort operating machine shop, measurement, and test equipment.
- Medical product experience is desirable but not required.
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME).
- SolidWorks experience.
Responsibilities
- Drive design efforts to optimize the performance, manufacturability, and reliability of existing and future Da Vinci SP instruments.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineers, Systems Engineers, Systems Analysts, Clinical Development engineers, Supplier Engineers, and Quality Engineers.
- Maintain awareness of customer needs and requirements; develop new device concepts and continuously improve existing designs.
- Provide mechanical engineering sustaining support to resolve manufacturing and field issues.
- Create product functional and design specifications.
- Analyze and test product designs.
- Develop vendors to manufacture components.
- Develop initial fixtures and processes for component assembly.
- Develop product assembly instructions.
- Develop and perform component verification testing and product validation testing.
- Support final product production by troubleshooting process and component problems.
- Support CAPA and continuous improvement projects and quality/regulatory audits as required.
- Provide engineering support to Manufacturing, Materials, Test Engineering, and Service to facilitate design transfer.
- Develop and maintain Design History Files in accordance with FDA requirements.
- Investigate and establish root causes of latent and emerging design, manufacturing, or material defects.
- Develop, implement, test, and document solutions according to corporate standards and departmental operating procedures.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
