Intuitive Surgical-posted 3 months ago
Full-time • Senior
Sunnyvale, CA
5,001-10,000 employees
Miscellaneous Manufacturing

This Staff Clinical Development Engineer (CDE) position reports to the Clinical Development Engineering Director on the Ion Endoluminal platform. In this position, a Staff CDE utilizes their in-depth clinical, technical and design control knowledge to collaborate with physicians and design engineering to discover, define, develop, and validate new product solutions for flexible robotic catheter platforms. Their primary focus is to understand user needs, establish clinical and engineering requirements, consider clinical risks and identify solutions to guide product development. They also help explore robotic clinical applications for Intuitive products, as well as future opportunities to optimize product integration into the clinical setting.

  • Apply in-depth knowledge of the clinical procedure and of medical technology in order to become an expert within the company on Intuitive's products and clinical applications
  • Collaborate with physicians and key clinical users to understand the clinical need
  • Provide a clinical voice for design and evaluation of Intuitive's products
  • Assess potential clinical risks and mitigations to drive appropriate product design
  • In-depth technical understanding of the Intuitive products and adjunct medical device technology that includes mechanical, software, algorithms, electronics aspects of the device
  • Drive product discovery in collaboration with product management and product design teams by being the internal champion of clinical need
  • Lead early design investigation teams that are lean and efficient for product enhancements & new product ideas
  • Establish milestones and success criteria for early investigations
  • Drive stakeholder alignment frequently and solicit appropriate user feedback
  • Drive decision making and escalate key issues quickly
  • Keep the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action
  • Create Best Practices guidelines, white papers and mentor junior members of the team through product discovery and development
  • Drive early design decisions with sound understanding of design control, clinical risks and evaluation strategy
  • Drive design validation testing strategy for new products and get alignment on the strategy with key regulatory and engineering stakeholders
  • Support product launches and collect early field feedback in collaboration with product management
  • Closely collaborate with other organizations within the company, including design, marketing, regulatory, human factors, training, product management, and sales throughout product development and testing
  • Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or similar
  • Minimum of 15 years of experience in medical device industry required
  • Minimum of 10 years of clinical development and design control experience
  • Ability to understand complex robotic products
  • Experience collaborating with physicians and collecting feedback on clinical use of the product
  • Experience working in cross-functional teams and proven ability to cultivate collaboration across multiple disciplines (marketing, regulatory, quality, product design, engineering, human factors) to insure project success
  • Experienced in driving complex medical devices from concept to market
  • Experience developing design validation strategy, protocol creation and testing
  • Experience leading hands-on product evaluation testing in a pre-clinical lab setting
  • Fluent in medical terminology and sound knowledge of anatomy
  • Self-starter needing minimal supervision
  • Self-confident and able to react quickly under pressure
  • Willingness to mentor more junior team members
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills required including presentation of technical content
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time, internationally and domestic
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