MEMS Inertial-Drift Recovery Leader — Surgical Robotics

The mandate

The motion-sensor director left after sterilisation and handling trials produced inertial bias shifts, shock memory and alignment changes that altered robotic arm compensation. Bench calibration passes before assembly, while fusion software estimates away drift until rare manoeuvres expose position disagreement. The interim leader must recover a physical sensor-to-motion evidence chain without allowing algorithms to hide unstable MEMS, package or mounting behaviour.

Ten months provide a fixed recovery window. The first six weeks secure unit genealogy, reproduce sterilisation and shock sequences and establish containment for affected assemblies. Months two through six close die, package, mounting, thermal and calibration mechanisms. Months seven through nine qualify corrected production and fusion limits. The final month installs a permanent leader and transfers safety, supplier and release decisions.

Handover is achieved when bias, scale factor, cross-axis sensitivity and alignment remain within approved budgets after sterilisation, transport, shock and operating temperature across three lots for eight weeks. The successor must chair one sensor-lot disposition, approve a recalibration trigger and defend residual motion uncertainty to design assurance. Algorithm correction cannot count as stability when raw drift exceeds its declared diagnostic envelope.

The leader may quarantine sensors, stop simulation trials, approve bounded calibration and package changes, allocate failure analysis, direct supplier containment and commit CZK 70 million within the recovery envelope. They decide sensor readiness after safety consultation. Robot motion algorithms, clinical claims, product safety acceptance, hospital deployment and long-term supplier awards remain with named engineering, medical and executive authorities.

Excluded are redesigning the robot, changing clinical workflows, signing regulatory submissions, running human procedures or replacing the complete motion-control platform. The mandate covers MEMS physical stability, calibration and system evidence for the selected assemblies. Product-liability conclusions and clinical incident decisions remain outside interim authority, supported by preserved data and samples.

Why this seat is open

Inertial drift emerges through interactions among MEMS structures, package stress, mounting, sterilisation, shock and estimator assumptions. The departure left sensor and controls teams trading error budgets without an executive owner for raw physical stability. Temporary leadership can contain affected lots now and leave a successor with reproducible motion evidence across realistic handling.

What you will own

• Reconcile die lot, package, assembly, mount, sterilisation cycle, shock history, calibration and robot-test genealogy.
• Separate bias instability, scale-factor change, cross-axis error, package stress, mounting creep and test-fixture artefacts.
• Build motion error budgets connecting raw sensor distributions, calibration, fusion diagnostics and robotic position consequence.
• Direct environmental tests across temperature, vibration, drop, sterilisation, transport, ageing and representative robot manoeuvres.
• Define recalibration, rejection and monitoring thresholds that expose rather than conceal physical sensor change.
• Govern MEMS, package and robot suppliers through containment, physical analysis, corrective action and lot requalification.
• Transfer mechanism records, safe calibration limits, production tests, open lots and successor-led release evidence.

Candidate qualifications

• Led MEMS inertial sensor recovery or industrialisation for medical, automotive, aerospace or precision robotic systems.
• Can evidence a drift mechanism created by package, mounting, shock or environmental history rather than sensor electronics alone.
• Understands inertial bias, scale factor, cross-axis sensitivity, calibration, sensor fusion and error propagation.
• Has governed sterilisation or harsh handling tests whose outcome affected safety-relevant motion decisions.
• Directed sensor, package, firmware, controls and supplier teams through shared unit and exposure genealogy.
• Developed a successor able to reject software compensation when raw hardware movement exceeds diagnostic bounds.

Non-negotiables

• Will lead onsite in Prague and attend all Brno and Zurich package and simulation sessions.
• Has personally released production MEMS inertial hardware after environmental and system-motion correlation.
• Accepts no authority over clinical claims, robot safety acceptance, hospital deployment or long-term awards.
• Will disclose MEMS, packaging, robotics, calibration and medical-device relationships before appointment.

1. 49 words maximum. Which inertial drift mechanism appeared only after assembly, handling or sterilisation?
2. 49 words maximum. How would you prove fusion software is not hiding an unstable raw sensor?
3. 49 words maximum. What must the successor demonstrate before inheriting sensor-lot release authority?