Desired start date: February 2025

Location: San Carlos, CA

We believe the future of the operating room lies in the hands of the empowered surgeon. They are bolstered with complete control, renewed confidence, and technology adaptable to any situation.

Our Maestro System delivers this empowerment, resulting in improved operating room efficiency and surgical care for patients - We are using tomorrow's technology to change surgery today.

Our blended French-American team is passionate about building this future. Together we are pushing the boundaries in a fast-paced yet focused and deliberate environment. We challenge ourselves often and celebrate our achievements. We believe that communication and planning are as important as execution.

🎉 The Role

Your Core Responsibilities

As a flexible member of the R&D hardware team you will lead individual projects spanning the capital equipment and the consumables at the direction of the senior members of the team:

• Develop improvements and new versions of our capital equipment, and support the sustaining activities of our system.
• Design, prototype, refine and develop the structural components, mechatronics, mechanisms and cosmetic aspects of our capital equipment.
• Establish key results for mechanical systems that align with, and move the company toward, it’s goal.
• Manage and Plan timelines and the individual tasks required to achieve them
• Communicate effectively to the R&D management team the plans for progress toward achieving these key results
• Show patience, respect and focus to discuss trade offs and engage in healthy debate with the broader team
• Prototype concepts for rapid iteration and testing in both benchtop and pre-clinical settings
• Provide hands-on troubleshooting during prototyping and through commercial implementation in support of rapid design cycles and tight feedback loops
• Contribute to and lead technical design reviews and support or author essential design control document elements such as requirements, design outputs, and risk analysis, throughout the design and development process
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (Systems, Electrical, Software, Clinical) to ensure interfaces are understood and requirements defined.
• Generate Invention Disclosures in support of the company’s patent strategy and participate in patent application drafting as appropriate
• Ensure compliance with relevant aspects of the IEC-60601, and other standards

Your Day-to-day Activities

On a daily basis you will be fully immersed in the design and development of the Maestro Platform, as a flexible member spanning 3 groups System Design, Arms, and Consumables.. You will be a key member of the team helping us increase our design improvement throughput and sustaining activities.

• Additionally, you will be the primary technical resource for mechanical design topics related to sustaining activities.
• You will have complete design ownership of any project that comes your way from beginning to implementation.
• Your work will expand from dynamic and fast, to long term projects.

How You’ll Fit In

• You will be reporting to our CTO who will provide guidance and management on your short-, mid-, and long-term projects within the organization through weekly 1-1 meetings.
• On a daily basis, you will be in contact with all team members globally, on an as-needed basis, with frequent interactions cross functional resources. With national and international travel on an as-needed basis.
• You will be working with input and support from our internal teams R&D, Product, Marketing, Clinical, Operations, and external vendors/consultants.
• The whole company meets globally a few times a year, and you will rapidly have an opportunity to meet everyone in involved.

🧭 Qualifications, Skills & Attributes

Must have:

• BSc or MSc in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
• 5+ years’ experience designing and shipping complex mechatronic systems in a regulated environment
• Self-driven with the ability to excel in a high-speed, small, focused team environment.
• Can self project manage, drive results, and set priorities with limited supervision.
• Can triage what is important and understand what is a good enough solution.
• Exceptional commitment to high product quality.
• Proficiency with CAD (SolidWorks required and PDM nice to have): designing parts with complex geometry, creating assemblies, creating detailed manufacturing drawings, and examining designs with Finite Element Analysis (FEA).
• Experience with driving a design to closure while weighing the compromise of cost, schedule and risk