- Robot type
- Surgical and Medical
- Location
- San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Sep 9, 2026
Full-time
Senior Manager Mechanical Design Engineering, GI Robot
Job description
Intuitive Surgical designs and manufactures highly complex mechanical systems for use in surgery. These systems include both capital equipment and “consumables” in the form of surgical instruments and accessories. The Senior Mechanical Design Engineering Manager, Systems is responsible for leading a team of engineers that design, develop, and launch new products to the field. The candidate will lead a team to identify and evaluate new product opportunities that address new and unmet needs. The successful candidate must have technical depth in relevant areas and be as comfortable collaborating and leading across organizational boundaries as they are working independently.
Job responsibilities
- Provide vision for technical project team and foster environment that encourages creativity, risk taking, and crisp execution
- Develop working knowledge of external customer needs/requirements to ensure product designs provide value to patients, physicians and hospitals
- Establish group objectives and individual work goals consistent with overall product development goals
- Assign tasks, set priorities, establish metrics, and track progress
- Assess employee performance and provide coaching to improve performance
- Manage, coach, and mentor engineers, technicians, and drafters as required
- Ensure design engineers follow appropriate design history file guidelines per FDA requirements and hold design reviews in accordance with product development procedures
- Provide engineering resources to support Process Development, Manufacturing, Supplier Engineering, Test Engineering, and Quality to facilitate transfer of designs
Job requirements
- At least ten (10) years of experience with mechanical product design
- Minimum 5 years of experience directly managing people
- Minimum 5 years of experience taking products from concept to production
- Must be a selfless leader who inspires trust and commitment within their team and in the broader organization through integrity, passion, and professional excellence.
- Medical product experience preferred
- Comfortable with all phases of the product development lifecycle including design, implementation, debug, verification, qualification, and transfer.
- Hands-on engineering manager with the proven ability to work well in a team environment.
- Ability to lead/influence cross functional teams in the design of complex surgical products.