Karen Ladenheim
Mechanical Design Engineer at Intuitive
Los Altos, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaren Ladenheim is a Mechanical Design Engineer with a decade of experience crafting medical and consumer hardware from concept through manufacture, currently contributing to Intuitive in Los Altos. She led the mechanical UI design and regulatory testing for a wearable defibrillator and has repeatedly bridged product, clinical, and manufacturing teams to deliver IEC-compliant, user-focused devices. Her background spans startups and large organizations—Element Science, Sensel, Apple, Boeing—and includes hands-on skills in SolidWorks PDM, rapid prototyping, and PCB/mechatronics integration. Karen also applies design thinking globally, having founded a cooperative living startup in Chile and taught design at Stanford, bringing a rare combination of clinical device rigor and human-centered, cross-cultural product insight.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Product Design, BS, Product Design at Stanford University
English, SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kateladenheim/MDP-CreativeTech
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
kateladenheim/gafewd88_kladenheim
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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