Sr. Industrial Designer - Ion

Intuitive • Sunnyvale, CA

127d

About The Position

Join Intuitive in shaping the future of lung care. As a Senior Industrial Designer for ION Endoluminal, you'll help design robotic solutions that enable earlier diagnosis of lung cancer. In this role, you'll collaborate with engineers, clinical, and product partners to bring bold ideas to life. You'll focus on the physical aspects and interactions of ION platform, applying a human-centered design process to transform technical complexity into designs that are intuitive, elegant, and manufacturable. From sketching and prototyping to testing and refining, you'll explore a wide range of possibilities—building consensus across teams and shaping solutions that directly impact patient outcomes and clinician experience. This is more than a design role. It's a chance to contribute to life-changing technology at the forefront of medical robotics.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Industrial Design.
• 8+ years of experience in professional industrial design roles.
• An exceptional portfolio that demonstrates a methodical human-centered design process and delivering successful products from concept to production.
• A comprehensive set of prototyping skills from quick low-fi foam models to fabricating more complex functional learning prototypes.
• Excellent sketching, visualization, storytelling and presentation skills and an ability to effectively communicate a user-centered point of view.
• Extensive experience with SolidWorks is required. Specific experience with complex surfacing is a plus.
• A thorough understanding of materials, manufacturing processes, and designing for DFM & DFA considerations.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time for case observation.

Nice To Haves

• Proven experience in medical devices or regulated products, and a history of bringing innovations successfully to the market.
• Excels at cross-functional collaboration, building strong partnerships with engineering, product, and clinical teams to deliver products that succeed in the market.

Responsibilities

• Champion a human-centered design approach, creating world-class products that push the boundaries of medical robotic technology.
• Drive projects with autonomy while partnering across disciplines to deliver holistic, integrated user experiences.
• Partner with user research, clinical, and product management to uncover insights through field research, usability studies, and clinical labs, translating findings into actionable design directions.
• Build prototypes at multiple fidelities—from quick sketches to refined appearance models—to rapidly explore ideas, test assumptions, and validate design choices.
• Transform complex technical and ergonomic requirements into elegant, practical solutions that balance desirability, feasibility and viability.
• Deliver manufacturable design proposals, partnering with engineering to ensure high-quality execution that maintains design intent.

Benefits

• Market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree