Senior Software Engineer
Intuitive

Job Info

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At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints. 

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare’s hardest challenges and advance what is possible. 

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere—we strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves. 

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture—our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.  

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let’s advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Primary Function of Position:

Contribute broadly to the Servo and Audio Software Engineering Group, responsible for the real-time software infrastructure and supervisory state machines at the heart of the da Vinci™ Surgical System.

The successful candidate must excel in a high-energy, focused, small-team environment, be able to drive to solutions from rough requirements, and have a commitment to high product quality. A strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required.

As a member of the Servo/Audio software team, immediate responsibilities include:

• Architecture and development of audio and control-systems software infrastructure, shared across all Intuitive Surgical robotic systems, to maximize flexibility and modularity while maintaining peak performance
• Design and development of product-focused, robust, efficient and elegant C/C++ software in a heterogeneous, multi-processor SoC/FPGA/real-time-embedded environment
• Analysis and quantification of the overall system performance and safety, including verification of adherence to specifications as well as identification of improvement opportunities, such as reduced latency and increased reliability/determinism

Additional team responsibilities include:

• Development and testing of the supervisory state machines that serve as the system’s top-level behavioral command control center
• Developing a thorough system-level knowledge from a clinical user perspective
• Working on a cross-functional team at multiple levels, understanding needs and requests and weighing them against safety risks and technical constraints.
• Familiarity and experience with object-oriented software modeling and state machine implementation tools
• Contributing to multiple areas of software development, including but not limited to the following:
  • configuration and monitoring of custom motion control hardware
  • real-time processing performance analysis
  • extension of current processing frameworks to new processors and hardware designs
  • design, development and extension of offline hardware simulation environments to facilitate rapid software development and testing
  • development of research prototypes used to evaluate new product concepts
  • design and development of hardware / software diagnostic tools
• Detailed design, development, and verification of embedded software for da Vinci™ Surgical System products
• Helping to perform formal risk analysis and develop software mitigations
• Documenting according to Intuitive's development guidelines

Skill/Job Requirements:

Competency Requirements: (Competency is based on education, training, skills and experience.)

In order to adequately perform the responsibilities of this position the individual must have the following:

• Minimum Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree (Master's or PhD degree preferred), with minimum five (5) years (or two (2) years for PhD) of industry experience in developing embedded systems
• Experience in top-level state machine development for complex products with human user interface provisions and critical safety considerations
• Experience in developing real-time embedded software for one or more of the following areas: motion-control, robotics, audio intercom/DSP (experience implementing complex control algorithms into embedded systems is ideal)
• Experience in object-oriented software architecture and familiarity with design patterns
• Experience in developing for embedded Linux and/or QNX at multiple levels (hardware bring-up, driver, application) is ideal
• Experience in software support for custom hardware development including diagnostic tests, utilities, and power-on self-tests; experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Matlab, etc.) for diagnostic/test automation is desired
• Demonstrated experience and comfort with all phases of the product development lifecycle, including design, implementation, debug, verification, validation, and transfer to manufacturing
• Experience with designing software products in an FDA or other regulated industry or for mission critical applications is a plus; comfort with concepts of design input, design output, traceability, and risk analysis

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Shift : Shift 1 - Day

Travel : No

Travel Requirements:No Shift:Shift 1 - Day

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