Reliability Engineer

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary function of position:

We are looking for a talented individual to join our growing Reliability Data & Modeling team focused on innovative approaches to reliability and life testing. This role has the opportunity to work creatively with a team of mixed disciplines, including SW, FW, SA, EE in addition to the reliability and mechanical engineers.

The primary function of this position is to make/review/improve/execute current plans for automated and semi-automated system/subsystems reliability testing. This includes design, procurement and assembly of test fixtures, and SW scripts required to limit human interactions throughout the reliability tests. Other important task is to lead/support current efforts by the design team for bench testing critical components and subsystems. The successful candidate must have a strong curiosity for how the system is performing its critical functions, also must be hands on with automation/control and data acquisition concepts and tools.  He/she must be able to work with EE/FW, SW, ME, RE and mechatronics engineers to not only understand the current in-house approaches to testing but also recommend improvements that paves the way for fulfilling the new vision.

He/she must have a proven track-record of automated test fixture development for medical capital and/or consumable equipment and extreme curiosity of the unexplored or unexplained, great attention to details, no fear of incomplete/developing specification and design documents, and most importantly, a passion to learn new things.

Job Description:

The reliability team charter includes but not limited to, implementation of proactive reliability approaches during product development. The team provides vital guidance to ME, SW, FW, HW, and SA teams for data-driven design and operation decisions.  The team also regularly analyzes field data from previous generation of the product to identify improvement opportunities for both legacy and future products.  

The reliability engineer will contribute to the high-level strategies of the reliability team regarding testing and failure data collection and analysis. The reliability engineer will be responsible for the followings:  

• Review functional and reliability requirements of systems/subsystems to plan reliability/life tests that help evaluate the short/ long term compliance with the specs.
• Design, procure and assemble test fixtures to limit/eliminate the need for human intervention during the tests
• Test fixture design covers the mechanical & electrical parts as well as control platforms, algorithms & SW
• Work closely with SW, FM, IT and data team to enable automatic data collection during the system test. This includes the system logs and other critical info such as temperature, vibration, noise that may not be available directly from the system
• Modify/ develop the SW scripts necessary to run automated tests that cover the required subset of the system operational profile
• Plan interim quality and performance inspection required to verify integrity of the system/components critical functions during the test
• Work closely with quality, regulatory, and document control to properly document and release the test fixtures if used for finished products and features
• Provide regular reports on the status tests, regarding cumulative test hours, total number and nature of the failure events
• Regular triage of the failure data with the design team for full blown root cause analysis towards design improvement
• Plan and execute accelerated and highly accelerated life tests for components and subsystems, this may include critical accessories and instruments
• DOE for performance tests to help engineering design and manufacturing team with required gage R&R, variability and capability analysis

Qualifications

Skill/Job Requirements:

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Minimum Masters (Ph.D. Preferred) in mechanical or reliability engineering or other related engineering fields with direct work experience
• Minimum 3 years of work experience in reliability/life testing of medical capital/consumer equipment and instruments
• Hands on with statistical tools such as JMP, Minitab, DOE++ , Weibull++, ALTA, GoldSim
• Strong skills in manipulating big data (SQL, python, excel)
• Experience in programming (MATLAB, Python, C/C++)
• Direct experience with accelerated/ highly accelerated life test design and analysis
• Hands on with data acquisition tools and techniques, for measuring electrical and physical phenomenon such as voltage, current, torque, force, pressure, or sounds
• Hands on with NI DAQs or similar platforms for PC-based control and automation
• Hands on with common servo systems including brushed and brushless DC motors, feedback device/encoders and the controller
• Hands on with vibration measurement and analysis techniques, in both time and frequency domains, including peak, RMS, FFT, PSD and Spectrogram analysis

Additional Information

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

Mandatory Notices

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.