Team Description:

Come be a founding member of the nascent Surgery Reliability & Test Team, responsible for leveling-up surgery test infrastructure and driving continuous technical improvements to surgery. Build whatever is needed to (1) close the gap between mock-surgery testing and real surgery, and (2) enable a high cadence of representative mock-surgery testing to illuminate intermittent failure modes and facilitate rapid process improvement.

Example projects:

• Design a surgical proxy that realistically tests robotic craniectomy R&D
• Design a spinal implant R&D testbed that includes representative physiological motion and micromotion and reads implant health.
• Implement a method for automatically gathering metrics from tests and surgeries (such as step times, tool use data, effect repeatability)
• Build and scale a robust R&D-to-production qualification test paradigm that maximizes test effectiveness while minimizing man hours
• Lead root-cause investigations and update hardware designs as needed to optimize surgery

About you:

• You find large challenges exciting and enjoy discovering and defining problems as much as solving them.
• You deliver. You may enjoy thoughtful conversations about problems and perfecting designs, but in the end, you know that what matters is delivering a manufacturable solution that works every time.
• You are a cross-disciplinary team member. You are excited to work with and learn from software, mechanical, electrical, materials, biological engineers, and neuroscientists. You are comfortable communicating across teams.
• Resourceful, flexible and adaptable; no task is too big or too small.

Key qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in science or engineering, or equivalent in experience and ability.
• 2+ years of mechanical (or electromechanical, or software/mechanical) engineering industry experience, including owning projects from concept to production. 
• It’s OK to include internships and competitive project teams
• Strong understanding of engineering first principles.

Preferred qualifications: 

• Experience designing/running a test for a complex system.
• Experience interfacing with sensors, motors, etc
• Software competency, for running tests / analyzing data / integrating dashboards
• Experience with conventional machining and rapid prototyping technologies.