Translator
Intuitive
Posted: March 30, 2026
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Quick Summary
The Translator position requires a Translator with a strong understanding of medical terminology and a passion for precision and accuracy.
Required Skills
Job 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.
We’re 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.
If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.
Primary Function of Position:
Technical translator may create, evaluate, modify, translate and submit for approval into our ACCS system the different types of documentation used within or outside ISI, which directly affect our different processes.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Translate documents from English into Spanish and vice versa as required, reading through original documentation and rewriting it in the target language, ensuring retention of the meaning of the source documentation.
• Provide Certificate of Translation for documents translated.
• Review current processes at the plant to gain experience for translation and to provide consistency on translations.
• Consult Subject matter experts (SMEs) for help on translations.
• Prioritizing work to meet deadlines.
• Participate in Line Transfers to translate documentation transferred into our MX facility, proposing measurable goals and keeping tracking of progress.
• Work closely with Engineers when modification of MPI’s is required to cover the translation of such changes and to submit changes for approval into our ACCS system and follow up with approvers.
• Work closely with Equipment Engineers for translation of Equipment reports, brochures, forms, routines or manuals.
• Help in interpretation of technical documentation.
• Help other departments on translation needs as well.
• Perform other duties as required.
Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:
• Certified translator from English to Spanish and vice versa (professional degree).
• ECO creator approved to submit translated documentation.
• Speak, read and write fluently in English and Spanish (demonstrable).
• Good communication skills.
• Project management abilities.
• Decision making abilities.
• Knowledge of Engineering terms (demonstrable).
• Demonstrate reading comprehension, understanding contents.
• Technology skills, use of computer and translation software.
• Experience with Microsoft Office programs.
• 1 to 3 years of experience manufacturing processes and documentation.
Intuitive es un empleador que brinda igualdad de oportunidades de empleo. Proporcionamos igualdad de oportunidades de empleo a todos los solicitantes y empleados cualificados, y prohibimos cualquier tipo de discriminación y acoso, independientemente de su raza, sexo, condición de embarazo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, origen nacional, color, edad, religión, condición de veterano protegido o de discapacidad, información genética o cualquier otra condición protegida por las leyes federales, estatales o locales aplicables.
Aviso sobre los Controles de Exportación de EE. UU.: De acuerdo con las Regulaciones de Administración de Exportaciones de EE. UU. (15 CFR §743.13(b)), algunos puestos en Intuitive Surgical pueden estar sujetos a controles de exportación de EE. UU. para candidatos que sean nacionales de países actualmente bajo embargo o sanciones.
Cierta información que usted proporcione como parte de la solicitud será utilizada para determinar si Intuitive Surgical necesitará (i) obtener una licencia de exportación del gobierno de EE. UU. en su nombre (nota: el proceso de obtención de la licencia puede tardar entre 3 y más de 6 meses) o (ii) implementar un Plan de Control de Tecnología (“TCP”, por sus siglas en inglés) (nota: normalmente este paso agrega 2 semanas al proceso de contratación).
Para cualquier puesto en Intuitive sujeto a controles de exportación, las ofertas finales están condicionadas a la obtención de una licencia de exportación aprobada y/o a la ejecución de un TCP antes de la fecha de inicio del empleado potencial, la cual puede o no ser flexible, y dentro de un plazo que no obstaculice de manera irrazonable la necesidad de contratación. Si aplica, los candidatos serán notificados e instruidos sobre cualquier requisito relacionado con estos fines.