- Robot type
- Surgical and Medical
- Location
- SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Sep 2, 2026
Full-time
Manufacturing Mechanical Engineer
Job description
Contribute your technical manufacturing, equipment design and project management skills to a dynamic manufacturing engineering team creating precision instruments for minimally invasive robotic surgery. The role requires active participation in manufacturing engineering organization in order to refine electro-mechanical components, assemblies, process documentation, tooling and test methods to improve efficacy, reliability, manufacturability and cost for surgical robotic instruments.
Job responsibilities
- Create, maintain and improve “high-volume” manufacturing assembly lines, specifying and/or refining BOMs, workflow processes, manufacturing plan and detailed work instructions.
- Design, document, procure, qualify, implement, and improve fixtures, tools and equipment.
- Independently and proactively determines and analyzes trends for equipment performance
- Analyze instrument-manufacturing line from a risk perspective (PFMEA) to incorporate and validate critical tests used in manufacturing.
- Responsible for the validation and qualification of manufacturing equipment and processes leveraging standard qualification approaches (IQ/OQ/DQ/PQ).
- Provide production line support for day-to-day engineering issues on core instrument lines i.e. resolve emergency and unscheduled problems/repairs of equipment.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement projects with respect to first pass yield, cycle time reduction, product reliability, capacity enhancement and cost reduction.
- Provide product and process DFx (Manufacturing, Assembly) input to enhance manufacturability of core instruments.
Job requirements
- Must possess strong communication skills to interface with technicians, product development, planning, purchasing, regulatory, inspection, customer support and clinical marketing teams.
- Strong technical analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Prior experience with managing product and process changes.
- Strong organizational skills and proven ability to work on fast-paced projects simultaneously.
- Prior experience with technical writing.
- Prior responsibility for process, equipment or product validation/verification.
- Prior experience designing automated equipment, complex mechanism manufacturing is a plus
- CAD experience (preferred Solidworks).