Intuitive is hiring: Staff Hardware Test Engineer in Orlando
Intuitive, Orlando, FL, United States, 32885
Job Description
Primary Function of the Position
The New Product Verification Department is devoted to assuring safe, reliable, and effective products that exceed patient, surgeon, and hospital expectations. The department plays a vital role in product and process quality, in new product development and production, and in the quality of da Vinci and Ion robotic product lines, including diagnostic systems, endoscopic instrumentation, and supporting accessories. The Senior Test Engineer will work with a team of dedicated people within a product development team to assure the quality of new designs, to identify issues related to new designs and processes, and to work with other Test Engineers to develop harmonized test methods.
Essential Job Duties
Test Protocol Development, Execution & Reporting
- Develops high level test plans for instrument, accessories, endoluminal, and vision projects
- Generates and takes ownership of test protocols for Design Verification and Life/ Reliability tests
- Develops clinically relevant test methods ensure design requirements are sufficiently verified by collaborating with appropriate cross functional partners
- Executes test protocols for clinically-based surgical simulation and automated testing utilizing da Vinci surgical system, Ion Systems and/or other test equipment
- Identifies, reports and negotiate problems that arise during feasibility and design verification testing, and escalates new or persistent failure modes to appropriate engineering teams
- Drives failure investigation and root cause analysis in collaboration with other engineering partners
- Clearly documents test results and observations in test report.
Test Fixture Development:
- Designs test fixtures and other test aids needed to perform Design Verification and Life/ Reliability tests
- Proactively identifies and develops processes and test methods that could benefit from new or updated fixture designs by engaging with design and test engineers
Reasoning Ability:
- Ability to apply critical thinking to solve problems while leading cross-functional, technical teams in making recommendations.
- Ability to influence technical stake holders and suggest process improvements
- Ability to understand and work on complex products and processes
Other Responsibilities
- Technical leadership when collaborating with the cross functional teams and contributes to the development of product requirements and risk documents
- Effective technical communication across various levels of the organization at core team meetings and design reviews.
- Ensures successful, on-time completion of department and core team projects; communicates constraints and recommends preferred mitigation to direct management when successful project completion is at risk
- Complies with company Department and Standard Operating Procedures
- Contributes to the strategy for reliability assessment and verification of robotic surgical devices.
- Effectively translate the functional requirements into appropriate acceptance criteria for testcases and test methods.
- Coaches and mentors engineers and technicians in the team