Staff Quality Engineer

Intuitive
Sunnyvale, CA
Category Engineering
Job Description
Intuitive Surgical is a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, transforming how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide. The Staff Quality Engineer drives enterprise level quality outcomes by leading strategic initiatives and shaping quality practices across business units.

Requirements

  • Leads initiatives that change how quality is executed across multiples BUs or sites
  • Establishes standards, frameworks, or methodologies adopted beyond local teams
  • Serves as escalation owner for high impact product quality & compliance risks
  • Leadership of critical product, process investigations and audits.
  • Identification, execution and advise on strategic quality projects with company wide impact.
  • Ownership of quality investigations for complaints and non-conformances.
  • Author, review, and approve QA documentation, protocols
  • Leadership of critical CAPAs
  • Serves as subject matter expert in critical audits.
  • Analyze and interpret advanced quality data and KPI trends.
  • Mentor junior and senior engineers in technical expertise.
  • Ensure compliance with company and regulatory standards (GMP, ISO, FDA). Provides industry expertise.
  • Advise cross-functional teams on quality requirements.
  • Identification and ownership of continuous improvement projects.
  • Design Control and Risk Management Stewardship: Planning and execution of design controls, risk management, and design verification/validation for new products
  • Advocate product design history file and ensure compliance with internal processes and external standards and regulations.
  • Understand user needs and assure they are translated to the design, while ensuring compliance with usability and human factors standards and regulations.
  • Partner with engineering to define design inputs, design outputs, and traceability matrices.
  • Contribute to the strategy and execution of risk-based design verification and validation.
  • Accountable for overall risk management file: participate and support the development of product risk management file, to analyze and assess the product risks associated with user, design, process and supplier.
  • Support design controls activities associated with new product development. Advocate and ensure the transfer of reliable and scalable designs to manufacturing
  • Review and provide feedback on design architecture, selections, requirements, and drawings from early design.
  • Collaborate with manufacturing, purchasing, test engineering, and supplier engineering to facilitate transfer of scalable designs into production.

Benefits

  • Market-competitive compensation packages
  • Inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity
  • 401k Matching
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