Manager Clinical Development Engineering

Primary Function of Position

The Clinical Development Engineering team at Intuitive Surgical holds a unique position within product development by identifying clinical value through enabling the safe effective and reliable use of surgical robotic platforms and their components.

The Clinical Development Engineering Manager (Post Market) will manage a team of Clinical Development Engineers (Post Market) who use their indepth knowledge of robotic systems instruments and accessories and clinical applications to investigate understand and address opportunities with products in the field. The Clinical Development Engineering Post Market team also works with failure analysis/design engineers and clinicians to define develop and validate the clinical function of product improvements within our surgical robotic system platforms. They investigate and refine products including robotic systems visualization platforms instruments and accessories that ultimately improve the clinical outcome for patients. Their primary focus is to ensure clinical requirements are met risks are understood and characterized and validate that the products address them. They will also investigate opportunities for product clinical application and process improvements based on clinical use experiences.

The Clinical Development Engineering Manager (Post Market) provides leadership by thinking broadly working crossfunctionally supporting collaboratively and building exceptional empowering foundations. Additionally they recruit develop inspire engage and retain highperforming clinical engineers.

Essential Job Duties

• Post Market/Sustaining Engineering
  • Manage resources and workload of the Clinical Development Engineering Post Market team across engineering projects and investigation
  • Cultivate and maintain crossfunctional relationships on behalf of the Clinical Development Engineering Post Market team driving synergies and developing efficiencies with other groups including new product development regulatory quality marketing human factors training and sales
  • Advocate for and develop the role of Clinical Development Engineering Post Market to best contribute to the company mission
  • Create and improve Clinical Development Engineering Post Market processes to promote contribution efficiency and improve product performance using available resources
  • Support and sometimes manage clinical evaluation of enhanced products at key customer sites
  • Identify potential product enhancements & new product ideas by applying a databased approach to understanding the clinical needs of surgeons
  • Maintain uptodate knowledge of clinical applications of Intuitive products and transfer clinical product knowledge from new product development to the PostMarket space including regulatory surveillance failure analysis engineering and training.
• Management
  • Organization:
    • Keeps the organizations vision values strategy and goals at the forefront of decision making and action
    • Consistently demonstrates culture and values of the organization
• Team:
  • Hires trains and develops high performing staff and supports their long term professional development. Coaches and provides feedback on an ongoing basis.
  • Provides vision for the team ensuring safety of the Intuitive products in clinical use. The person of this function must provide an environment that encourages creativity and crisp .
  • Develops methodology and encourages team members to use accurate data and appropriate judgment to form conclusions
  • Establish subteam priorities and goals consistent with company and product development goals
  • Facilitates priority alignment reviews metrics and tracks progress
  • Assesses employee performance and provides coaching
  • Influences and builds bridges across teams to improve communication and processes; keeps team on target and collaborates with functional leadership to resolve conflicts quickly
  • Seeks recognizes and executes creative and simple solutions to resolve complex situations; routinely steadies the team when stressed; manages by example

Qualifications :

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience in medical device product development (surgical devices preferred)

Required Education and Training

• Minimum Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or equivalent advanced degree preferred
• A manager who is a consistent high performer a continual learner and guides with emotional intelligence
• A team player.
• Selfstarter with ability to take leadership in a fastpaced environment
• Experience working in Risk Management specifically in ISO 14971
• Experience interacting with surgeons and their teams in an operating room environment with recognized clinical credibility and surgical acumen
• Aptitude to cultivate collaboration across Key Opinion Leaders and influence crossfunctional teams without formal authority to ensure project success
• Proven success in recognizing critical issues with the ability to react quickly under pressure and driving issues to closure by providing coordinated direction. Creative in succeeding.
• Effective project management planning decision making negotiating skills
• Excellent communication (written verbal) presentation and documentation skills

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Current or previous experience as an Intuitive Clinical Development Engineer
• Experience managing direct reports is a plus.
• Scrub experience cadaveric and animal surgical experience a plus

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 COVID19. Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment 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.

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

We provide marketcompetitive 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.

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 COVID19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action 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.

EEO and AA Policy

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 marketcompetitive 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime