[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Intuitive jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Intuitive · Sunnyvale, CA # Staff (Quality Engineer 5) - New Product Development Sunnyvale, CA, United States Full-time Senior individual contributor Manufacturing & Production Listed on Intuitive’s official careers site. Posted September 30, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Intuitive’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Intuitive/744000152756569-staff-quality-engineer-5-new-product-development) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Intuitive](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/) / Staff (Quality Engineer 5) - New Product Development ## Job description Primary Function of Position This role drives enterprise level quality outcomes by leading strategic initiatives, shaping quality practices, and influencing decisions across business units. The Staff QE operates with broad autonomy and is recognized as a technical and leadership authority. ### Essential Job Duties - Leads initiatives that change how quality is executed across multiples BUs or sites - Establishes standards, frameworks, or methodologies adopted beyond local teams - Serves as escalation owner for high impact product quality & compliance risks - Leadership of critical product, process investigations and audits. - Indentification, execution and advise on strategic quality projects with company wide impact. - Ownership of quality investigations for complaints and non-conformances. - Author, review, and approve QA documentation, protocols - Leadership of critical CAPAs - Serves as subject matter expert in critical audits. - Analyze and interpret advanced quality data and KPI trends. - Mentor junior and senior engineers in technical expertise. - Ensure compliance with company and regulatory standards (GMP, ISO, FDA). Provides industry expertise. - Advise cross-functional teams on quality requirements. - Indentification and ownership of continuous improvement projects. ### Design Control and Risk Management Stewardship - Planning and execution of design controls, risk management, and design verification/validation for new products - Advocate product design history file and ensure compliance with internal processes and external standards and regulations. - Understand user needs and assure they are translated to the design, while ensuring compliance with usability and human factors standards and regulations. - Partner with engineering to define design inputs, design outputs, and traceability matrices. - Contribute to the strategy and execution of risk-based design verification and validation. ### Accountable for overall risk management file - participate and support the development of product risk management file, to analyze and assess the product risks associated with user, design, process and supplier. - Support design controls activities associated with new product development. Advocate and ensure the transfer of reliable and scalable designs to manufacturing - Review and provide feedback on design architecture, selections, requirements, and drawings from early design. - Collaborate with manufacturing, purchasing, test engineering, and supplier engineering to facilitate transfer of scalable designs into production. ### Breadth of Impact and Leadership - Demonstrated impact at BU or enterprise level - Outcomes are adopted and sustained beyond the business unit - Develops other Senior QEs into future Staff level leaders - Influences senior leadership decisions through data, judgment, and presence - Acts as a role model for quality culture and leadership behaviors ## Qualifications ### Required Experience and Education - Minimum 12 years of experience in Medical Device Industry QE/QA and bachelor’s degree in engineering or relevant discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Advanced understanding of quality principles and methodologies - Advanced data analysis and data interpretation skills - Expert ability to resolve quality issues - Respected ability to foster a quality culture - Expert communication and team collaboration, ability to influence stakeholders, executive presence - Expertise with evolving quality standards, tools and technologies - Strong ability to mentor and teach junior engineers ### Physical Requirements - Office, lab, production, and site travel as needed. - Frequent computer and inspection work. - Occasional lifting (<25 lbs) and PPE for production or regulated areas. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Sep 30, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 13, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 20, 2026 - Listed for: 20 days - Location: Sunnyvale, CA, United States - Employment type: Full-time[Apply on Intuitive’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Intuitive/744000152756569-staff-quality-engineer-5-new-product-development) ## More jobs at Intuitive ### [COE Manufacturing Business Systems Analyst](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/jobs/a56c313386cd2ccabc2d/) Sunnyvale, CA, United States ### [Category Manager](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/jobs/54908686a66395b666f3/) Sunnyvale, CA, United States ### [Final Quality Inspection Supervisor](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/jobs/fe5138e5b340b23a520d/) Sunnyvale, CA, United States ### [Manager, Manufacturing Engineering](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/jobs/83d14505b93b25dbec5e/) Sunnyvale, CA, United States ### [Manufacturing Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/jobs/2fd9d1addc809ba6f3af/) Sunnyvale, CA, United States ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Quality Engineer Sr Staff - E5](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/lockheed-martin/jobs/a8b13db2f6a0a0596dde/) Lockheed Martin · Palmdale, CA ### [Quality Engineer Sr Staff- E5](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/lockheed-martin/jobs/b18c17deaaea00d7837b/) Lockheed Martin · Marietta, GA ### [Staff Product Engineer - Semiconductor](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/infineon-technologies/jobs/e27f09153755e2aabfe9/) Infineon Technologies · San Jose, CA ### [RF Product and Test Engineer, Staff](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/qualcomm/jobs/6346be3317ee53b143f9/) Qualcomm · Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico ### [Staff Product Engineer - Semiconductor](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/infineon-technologies/jobs/5d75bc7340b6fdef69e8/) Infineon Technologies · El Segundo, CA, Andover, MA OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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