Senior Reliability Engineer

• Ways of Working:
  Set Schedule - This job will be onsite weekly, the percentage of onsite work will be defined by the leader.
• Employee Type:
  Employee
• Min. Salary Region 1: 159900 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Professional 4 (11)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 136000 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 at Intuitive
. As 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.

We are looking for a talented individual to join our growing Reliability Engineering team focused on innovative approaches to reliability and life testing. This role has the opportunity to work creatively with a team of mixed disciplines, including SW, FW, SA, EE in addition to the reliability and mechanical engineers. The primary function of this position is to make/review/improve/execute current plans for automated and semi-automated system/subsystems reliability testing.

This includes design, procurement and assembly of test fixtures, and SW scripts required to limit human interactions throughout the reliability tests. Other important task is to lead/support current efforts by the design team for bench testing critical components and subsystems. The successful candidate must have a strong curiosity for how the system is performing its critical functions, also must be hands on with automation/control and data acquisition concepts and tools.

He/she must be able to work with EE/FW, SW, ME, RE and mechatronics engineers to not only understand the current in-house approaches to testing but also recommend improvements that pave the way for fulfilling the new vision. He/she must have a proven track‑record of automated test fixture development for medical capital and/or consumable equipment and extreme curiosity of the unexplored or unexplained, great attention to details, no fear of incomplete/developing specification and design documents, and most importantly, a passion to learn new things.

• This position will contribute to the high‑level strategies of the reliability team regarding testing and failure data collection and analysis.
• While the immediate focus is the system reliability, important cases in instrument and accessories may also be covered.
• The reliability team charter includes but not limited to, implementation of proactive reliability approaches during product development.
• The team provides vital guidance to ME, SW, FW, HW, and SA teams for data‑driven design and operation decisions.
• The team also regularly analyzes field data from previous generation of the product to identify improvement opportunities for both legacy and future products.
• Review functional and reliability requirements of systems/subsystems to plan reliability/life tests that help evaluate the short/long‑term compliance with the specs.
• Design, procure and assemble test fixtures to limit/eliminate the need for human intervention during the tests.
• Test fixture design covers the mechanical & electrical parts as well as control platforms, algorithms & SW.
• Work closely with SW, FM, IT and data team to enable automatic data collection during the system test.
• This includes the system logs and other critical info such as temperature, vibration, noise that may not be available directly from the system.
• Modify/ develop the SW scripts necessary to run…