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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Flexible Instruments

Sunnyvale, CA, us💼 Full-time🗓 2025-11-17 → 2026-07-31

Core

Design and test next-generation robotic flexible instruments and catheters for minimally invasive surgery.

Role type

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Builds

Robotic surgical instruments and catheter sub-assemblies

Domain

Medical devices / Robotic surgery

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Mechanical design and analysis (statics, dynamics, kinematics, strength of materials), CAD (SolidWorks), manufacturing process knowledge (injection molding, extrusion, MIM, wire EDM), rapid prototyping, tolerance analysis, root cause analysis, systems-level thinking

Preferred skills

Finite Element Analysis (ANSYS), statistics and design of experiments, Matlab/Python, regulated industry design experience (design inputs/outputs/traceability/risk)

Technologies

SolidWorks, ANSYS, Matlab, Python

Responsibilities

Design new instrument components and select optimal materials/processes; Develop test methods and fixtures; Benchmark and compare designs; Present findings to clinical and manufacturing teams; Investigate design/manufacturing defects; Define engineering requirements and validate designs; Complete detailed drawings and tolerance analysis; Mentor junior engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship

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