Supplier Engineer - Castings

• Ways of Working:
  Onsite - This job is fully onsite.
• Employee Type:
  Employee
• Min. Salary Region 1: 186300 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Professional 5 (13)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 158400 USD

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do  a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.

Primary Function of Position

In this role, you will move surgery forward by putting the highest quality and most innovative products in the hands of our customers to enable better surgical outcomes for patients. The ideal candidate needs to have a vast knowledge in various metal casting processes such as V Process, sand casting and investment casting and will apply their broad and deep hands-on experience in casting (especially Aluminum) to help our suppliers manufacture high quality casting parts meeting our design standards and expectations for da Vinci surgical systems in the Multiport Business Unit.

This role is responsible for on-going sustaining and NPI products for all active Systems products with a focus on mechanical casting components and assemblies. This role will provide technical leadership, to a broad cross functional team such as design engineers and suppliers by developing casting design and inspection guidelines, performing DFM and ensuring casting suppliers can continuously produce high quality parts meeting Intuitive’ s standards.

The Staff Supplier Engineer must be capable of making sound decisions when faced with time constraints and ambiguous or incomplete information which is typical in a research and development environment. They will interface with suppliers and manufacturing to build high-quality casting parts and productize new designs.

Casting Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence

• Applies deep, hands-on expertise in aluminum and iron/steel casting processes (V-Process, sand casting, tilt-pour, investment casting, die-casting) to deliver robust, production-ready process and parts.
• Exercises strong engineering fundamentals to evaluate casting feasibility, influence part architecture, and select manufacturing processes that balance performance, quality, and risk.
• Reviews and guides mold and tooling designs, including gating, risers, solidification behavior, and defect prevention, to enable stable and repeatable production.
• Strong understanding of various heat treatment processes which influences the mechanical properties of castings and a solid grasp of mechanical property testing systems.
• Establishes clear casting design, inspection, and acceptance standards that enable consistency across programs and suppliers.

Supplier Engineering & Capability Development

• Assesses supplier capability with rigor and fairness, identifying strengths, gaps, and development opportunities across casting, tooling, inspection, and process control.
• Drives supplier-owned execution of qualification and validation deliverables (PPQP/PPAP, pFMEA, special process validation, IQ-OQ-PQ, FAI, Cpk, capacity studies).
• Partners with suppliers to improve process capability, capacity, yield, inspection effectiveness, and long-term reliability.
• Builds durable supplier relationships grounded in trust, transparency, and shared accountability.

Quality Systems & Risk-Based Decision Making

• Applies ISO-based quality system principles (ISO 9001 / ISO 13485) to supplier…