Staff Mechanical Engineer, Hardware

Neptune Medical is an innovative, venture capital funded medical device startup headquartered in Burlingame, CA. We have already commercialized novel medical devices using our technology. Now the team Triton Robotics at Neptune is building something truly unique: a fully flexible medical robot that enables doctors to reach deep into human anatomy. Triton Robotic Endoscopy will disrupt flexible endoscopy and set a new standard in outcomes for decades to come.

TITLE:  Staff Mechanical Engineer, Hardware

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a Staff Mechanical Engineer on the Capital Hardware Team you will join a talented team of engineers tasked to design, build and test the next generation capital hardware for our groundbreaking flexible endoscopy robotic platform. In this roll, you will champion product creation starting from clinical requirement to hardware definition. You’ll define hardware requirements based on evidence and prototype design concepts garnering feedback via test and clinically relevant evaluation.  You’ll drive prototypes into verification ready designs, complete product verification, and transfer designs to manufacturing for production.

The ideal candidate will act with passion and intensity in a medical device start-up that is fast paced and collaborative and will display the ability to perform to the requirements outlined below. For the right person, this position will be a tremendously exciting and career-defining opportunity, making core contributions to a genuinely new and unique type of medical robotic platform.  You will have the opportunity to define key robotic architectures that will have profound impact on the system, patient outcomes and physician experience.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the design of structural and electromechanical subassemblies for a groundbreaking flexible robotic platform.
• Invent, design, build, test/analysis and iterate capital hardware to address difficult clinical problems.
• Engage in cross functional collaboration with Industrial Design, Clinical, Systems, Electrical and Software Engineering teams to generate elegant solutions to clinician needs.
• Create and maintain Solidworks CAD models, define specifications and create detailed drawings per good GD&T.
• Drive the development of specifications, requirements, test methods and protocols through formal verification to ensure functionality, safety and efficacy of design.
• Create manufacturing methods/tooling that are developed, characterized, bounded, repeatable and efficient.
• Lead technical design reviews. Present design inputs, design outputs and open issues.
• Work closely with colleagues to brainstorm, collaborate, and share knowledge, demonstrating a team forward mentality with honest work ethic.
• Generate novel ideas that strengthen the company’s intellectual property position in the fields of endoscopic robotics and minimally invasive surgery.
• Work effectively within the confines of a regulated, quality-system driven, FDA-monitored medical device environment. Supporting and performing necessary testing and report generation for regulatory and clinical submissions.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Related degrees are acceptable, but you should be able to convince us that you are very competent in mechanical design.
• 7+ years of work experience as a hands-on mechanical engineer.
• Demonstrated experience in mechanism design, packaging, and deep knowledge of various types of motors, encoders, sensors, power transmission, and drive-train-related components such as gears, splines, lead screws, linear guides, belts and pulleys.
• Proven experience in mechanical analysis including things like modeling tolerance stacks, static and dynamic analysis, FEA and thermal analysis.
• Experience designing for manufacturability and understanding common manufacturing processes such as machining, sheet metal, casting, and injection molding.
• Experience in design control, risk management, demonstrating an ability to assess design failures and mitigate them through novel approaches.
• Demonstrated experience designing novel solutions to unsolved problems.
• Demonstrated ability to be successful in supporting multiple sub-projects concurrently, juggling multiple priorities based on criticality of the project deliverables.
• An inventive aptitude balanced with discipline and detail-orientation.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with medical device design and manufacturing.
• Great understanding of design controls and what is needed to get a product into patients.
• Experience with risk analysis, risk mitigation and dFMEA practices.
• Demonstrated ability to generate original ideas by history of patents and IP.
• Experience with development of articulating endoscopes and catheters.
• Developed products from invention to market release.
• Experience in a start-up environment.
• Experience creating and managing schedules, budgets, and plans.

Triton Robotics is located in Burlingame, CA, near the Millbrae Caltrain and BART station.  

The starting base salary for this role is between $180,000 and $210,000 depending on experience. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: education, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for equity, benefits, and 401(K) with matching.

Triton Robotics provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.