Sr. Manager, Electrical Engineering
Company: Intuitive
Role summary
Sr. Manager, Electrical Engineering is a role at Intuitive in Sunnyvale, California, United States (on-site). Posted 2026-10-09. Salary: USD 173,400–306,000 per year. Experience level: 10+.
- Job title
- Sr. Manager, Electrical Engineering
- Company
- Intuitive
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Work arrangement
- on-site
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Salary
- USD 173,400–306,000 per year
- Experience level
- 10+
- Date posted
- 2026-10-09
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading medical technology company that's making a real difference in patient care. You'll be leading a team of electrical engineers, working on cutting-edge robotic systems, with a very competitive salary and great benefits.
Job description
Company Description
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.
Were 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.
The Future Forward organization is Intuitive’s advanced concepts group. We explore emerging technologies, prototype next-generation solutions, and build software experiences that shape the future of robotic-assisted surgery.
If you're ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you'll find your purpose here.
Job Description
Description:
The Senior Manager, Electrical Engineering owns people leadership, electrical/electronic system architecture, and technical strategy in the development of a novel surgical robotic platform. In this role, the Sr. Manager leads the team directly responsible for board design and FPGA-based development and is accountable for translating clinical and market requirements into a coherent, multi-year architecture and technology roadmap.
The successful candidate is both a proven people leader and a recognized subject matter expert who can set technical direction, make sound architectural trade-offs under time pressure and incomplete information, and build the leadership pipeline needed to sustain a high-performing organization.
This person partners closely with cross-functional leaders (Software, Mechanical, Systems, Quality/Regulatory, Manufacturing) to align electrical engineering strategy with business unit and corporate priorities, and to ensure programs meet Intuitive's quality system and FDA regulatory requirements throughout the medical device development lifecycle.
Essential Job Duties
This position has organizational responsibility for people leadership, electrical/electronic architecture, planning across robotic surgical systems. The Senior Manager, Electrical Engineering will:
Provide people leadership across a team of PCBA and firmware (FPGA) designers, Own hiring, promotion, and performance decisions for the organization; build and develop a strong leadership pipeline of managers and technical leads
Coach and mentor managers and senior engineers; create an environment that supports attraction, retention, and successful long-term careers at Intuitive
Set individual and team development goals, and proactively address underperformance in a timely way
Define and drive electrical/electronic system architecture and multi-year technology roadmaps for novel robotic surgical platforms: Work with cross-functional leaders to translate clinical and market requirements into high and low-level architecture and design strategy
Serve as a recognized subject matter expert, guiding architecture-level design trade-offs for embedded, FPGA-based, analog, and high-speed digital systems, including cross-functional mechanical and software requirements.
Guide the team through design, implementation, verification, qualification, and transfer to manufacturing of complete robotic surgery designs, that include robotic servo control, vision processing, electrosurgical energy control, advanced compute and networking capabilities
Independently establish objectives, schedules, budgets, and resource plans for the organization; negotiate resources and priorities with other functional and resource managers: Set team and departmental goals aligned to business unit strategy; anticipate interdependencies and avoid surprises through proactive planning and risk management
Report status, risks, and resource needs to senior management and cross-functional program leadership
Ensure the organization's programs comply with Intuitive’s quality system and statutory requirements for medical device development: Oversee Design History File documentation, design controls (design input/output, traceability, risk analysis), and support for quality and regulatory processes across the team's programs
Ensure compliance with 60601 standards, with early identification of issues through methodical dry runs and testing at the sub-system and system level
Provide engineering oversight for resolution issues at all phases of the product lifecycle: design, verification and validation testing, and field support
Represent Electrical Engineering to senior leadership and cross-functional partners; tailor communication of complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
Drive process improvement, best practices, and new methodologies within and beyond the immediate organization
Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience
Proven track record leading and developing engineering managers as well as individual contributors, with strong commitment to team members' professional growth
Demonstrated experience independently managing budgets and resource plans for a large engineering organization
Recognized subject matter expertise in complex embedded and FPGA-based systems integrating digital, analog, and sensor technologies, gained in a fast-paced, high-transaction development environment
Experience defining cohesive electrical system architectures that combine mechanical and computational requirements in a cohesive manner.
Experience in defining and delivering on multi-year technical roadmaps for complex products,
Skilled at leading cross-functional teams and with cross-o