Senior Electrical Engineer

Job description

Primary Function of Position As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will design and develop innovative surgical energy equipment and accessories for Intuitive’s da Vinci Surgical System. You’ll thrive in a dynamic, high-energy environment, making sound decisions with incomplete information—typical of cutting-edge product development. The ideal candidate has strong technical depth, a record of successful medical product development, and a collaborative, knowledge-sharing approach. Essential Job Duties • Technical Partnership: Collaborate with Marketing, Software, and Clinical Engineering to define and refine product requirements. • System Integration: Identify and implement methods to satisfy product specs, ensuring seamless integration into effective system designs. • Development & Testing: Develop, validate, and document hardware solutions that meet clinical and environmental requirements. • Problem Solving: Provide technical expertise to resolve complex design, manufacturing, or field challenges. • Prototyping: Create prototypes to evaluate and refine future product concepts. • Stakeholder Support: Offer expert guidance on energy-based surgical products to internal company stakeholders. • Quality & Regulatory: Support compliance with quality standards and regulatory processes. Required Education, Skills & Experience • Minimum of 8 years of experience and a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years of experience and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience • Proficient in mixed signal design, embedded system design, and patient-isolated PCBA design. • Skilled in component selection, lifecycle management, and design for reliability/manufacturability. • Experience with switched-mode power supplies and transformer/magnetic component design. • Experienced in PCB fabrication, assembly, and testing. • Hardware development in fast-paced, high-impact environments. • Knowledgeable in all product development phases: design, implementation, debugging, verification, validation, and manufacturing transfer. • Team player with hands-on engineering experience. • Familiar with standards and regulations for medical electronic equipment (e.g., IEC 60601). • Strong communicator, able to influence and collaborate across teams and levels. Preferred Skills & Experience • Medical device product development experience. • Familiarity with electrical safety, EMI/EMC testing and mitigation. • Project leadership or mentoring experience. • Familiarity with design control requirements for medical devices, such as risk/failure analysis, creation of product requirements, design verification and validation, and providing technical support for regulatory submissions. It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive . As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care , our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion —have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide. We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world. The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life. If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare , you’ll find your purpose here.