- Robot type
- Surgical and Medical
- Location
- BlacksburgVirginiaUSA
- Job type
- Manufacturing
- Posted
- May 28, 2026
Full-time
NPI Manufacturing Engineer
Job description
Contribute your technical manufacturing and equipment design skills to a dynamic development team developing sensing platforms for minimally invasive robotic surgery. The role requires active participation in new product development teams that create and refine electro-mechanical components, assemblies, process documentation, tooling and test methods while challenging new product designs to improve efficacy, reliability, manufacturability, and cost for robotic surgical instruments.
Job responsibilities
- Create, maintain, and improve “low to mid-volume” manufacturing lines, specifying and/or refining BOMs, workflow processes, manufacturing plan and detailed work instructions
- Experience developing manufacturing lines - building prototype parts, training operators, identifying fixtures/tooling needed and conducting process validation
- Design, document, procure, qualify, implement, and improve fixtures, tools, and equipment
- Define and document PMC processes for newly introduced fixtures and tools
- Analyze 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 to production status leveraging standard qualification approaches (IQ/OQ/PQ)
- Provide production support of sustaining and startup manufacturing lines as needed
- Conduct testing of software releases before deploying on manufacturing line
Job requirements
- Prior experience with managing product and process changes.
- Diligent organizational skills and proven ability to simultaneously work on several fast-paced projects.
- Must have experience releasing new product or manufacturing line through design/build process to production.
- Must possess strong communication skills to interface with technicians, product development, planning, purchasing, regulatory, inspection, customer support and clinical marketing teams.
- Proven technical, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.