System Test Engineer
Intuitive

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare’s hardest challenges and advance what is possible. 

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere—we strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture—our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.  

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let’s advance the world of minimally invasive care. 

Primary Function of Position:

• The Quality Assurance Engineering function is responsible for ensuring that we at Intuitive Surgical produce quality medical devices that are safe for human use.  The primary function of this position is to plan, design, develop, and execute test protocols that provide evidence of the quality and safety of the robotic surgical systems.

Roles and Responsibilities:

This position has responsibility of and authority to:

• Plan, design, execute, document and analyze tests that evaluate, verify or validate intricate robotic surgical systems.
• Identify coverage of risks, requirements, architectural components, functions and performance; identify appropriate regression tests; assess risk and organize the test plan around risk priorities; analyze results, state conclusions, and assess residual risk after tests are complete; assess adequacy of support for conclusions by the test results.
• Identify appropriate methods for test cases (e.g. fault injection; fractional factorial experiment)
• Develop tests and scripts that automate the testing process at a system level.
• Improve automatic testing and develop the next iteration of automatic script-based testing.
• Develop software tests at module level in Python or Matlab.
• Analyze test data, identify non-conformance trends, generate concise executive summaries, and recommend design improvements.
• Document issues, using an issue tracking system, and report issues to software developers, monitor issue and resolution efforts and track success.
• Work with Clinical and Software teams to debug user interface issues.
• Review technical content of test documents required for the Design History File. Review documents for completeness, coherence, accuracy and compliance and approve test documents when required.
• Complete design documentation for test protocols, results and reports and complete requirement tracing for all requirements using the requirements management system.
• Learn the elements of the software build process to effectively execute, monitor and troubleshoot as necessary.
• Assist in Human Factors Studies.
• Identify, order and setup test equipment.  
• Contribute to initiatives that improve the overall QA process, such as identifying gaps or inefficiencies in workflows and suggesting improvements.

Essential Skills/Qualifications:

To perform the above responsibilities adequately, the individual must have:

• Minimum Education: Master’s Degree or Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline. Biomedical, Mechanical, Electrical, Software Engineering or Computer Science preferred 
• Minimum 3-5 years of related engineering experience with demonstrated capability in software or hardware system testing, test design and data analysis. Experience with mechanical or robotic systems is a plus.
• Experience in designing a test regimen to gather data proportionately to the need to reduce uncertainty and to provide evidence of risk mitigation; providing verification and validation results for incorporation into a risk management file and into a regulatory submission.
• Experience in medical device verification and validation testing, and an understanding of the requirements for regulatory approval.
• Familiarity with regulations, standards, and guidance on risk management, usability, and design control for medical devices.
• Demonstrated professional experience as a test or automation engineer.
• Ability to write test that will challenge the system and its requirements.
• Troubleshooting mind set, an ability to systematically and effectively break down a system or process into subparts to identify failure mechanisms.
• Advocate for test approaches that have the highest impact.
• Strong experience in writing test protocols against design and architecture documents.
• Experience with Human Factors and User Interface Testing
• Ability to collaborate with the Software, Clinical Development, Human Factors, Electrical, and Mechanical engineering groups.
• Must be able to work with programmers and QA to communicate defects and issues that affect the application and work to investigate and resolve defects as applicable.
• Experience with requirements management and defect tracking systems.
• High capacity to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Ability and interest to mentor, coach and instruct junior staff.
• Must work very well in a collaborative, fast paced and information environment, and will thrive under the pressure of doing something meaningful and needed.
• Excellent documentation skills and ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Actively participate in all aspects of Design Control and provide technical support for regulatory audits.

Additional competencies or experience:

• Familiarity with SW programming in C or C++
• Familiarity with scripting language, preferably Python for generation of automated tests.
• Experience with automated testing tools (using and/or developing).
• JIRA experience (Atlassian bug tracking tool)

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 COVID-19.  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.

Shift : Shift 1 - Day

Travel : No

Travel Requirements:No Shift:Shift 1 - Day

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