Sr Manager UI Software Engineering

Intuitive Surgical Sàrl; Genf; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical Sàrl is seeking a hands-on software engineering leader to head the UI team for the SP robotic system. You will own the UI and state machine development, working with designers, human factors engineers, and clinical staff to deliver safe, learnable interfaces for surgeons.

The role requires strong track record in embedded software, mentoring teams, and driving quality across the full development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience recruiting, mentoring, and functionally managing teams of highly skilled engineers.
• Experience in all phases of software development including evaluation, planning and definition, design & implementation, Verification & Validation, Market Launch, and Post Market.

Responsibilities

• Lead the software team responsible for implementing the User Interface and underlying State Machine of the SP system.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Interaction Design, Human Factors, Clinical, and Controls Engineering.
• Drive solutions from rough requirements while ensuring high product quality.
• Promote best practices in software development: code reviews, scrums, CI, and defensive programming.
• Oversee technical design reviews and ensure traceability from requirements to verifications.

Skills

Talent recruitment and mentoring

Experience leading UI software teams

Job description

Career Opportunities

Embeded Code End Code

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 . As a global leader in and , our technologies—like the and —have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide

robotic-assisted surgery

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

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help , you’ll find your purpose here

• transform the future of healthcare
• Primary Function of Position
• The da Vinci Single Port (SP) system provides surgeons with robotic-assisted technology designed for deep and narrow access to tissue in the body through a single, small incision. It pushes the frontier of human-machine interaction by fusing many technologies into a core product experience – technologies such as 3D immersive vision, real-time haptic interface and robotic manipulators
• The primary responsibility of the position is to lead the software team responsible for implementing the User Interface and underlying State Machine of the SP system. The UI Manager works collaboratively with a cross-functional team of interaction designers, human factors engineers, clinical engineers, and others to develop embedded software and graphical user interfaces that make customers’ experience of using complex surgical devices safe, easy to learn, and confidence-inspiring. The successful candidate is a hands-on technical manager able to drive to solutions from rough requirements and has a commitment to high product quality. A strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required

Essential Job Duties

• Recognize and attract top talent, mentor and train existing team members and new hires through one-on-one coaching as well as team wide initiatives
• Interface with variety of cross functional teams including Interaction Design, Human Factors, Clinical, Controls Engineering, etc., in understanding user interface needs to create, maintain, and track a bottom-up schedule that best supports business unit top-down goals
• Own full development lifecycle for UI software team and associated documentation (negotiate requirements, systematic risk assessment and mitigation, prototyping, development, testing, and software releases)
• Champion best practices in software development (code reviews, scrums, bug scrubbing meetings, coding conventions, continuous integration, defensive programming, static analysis, design patterns, etc.)
• Conduct technical design reviews
• Assess and update the software hazard analysis and identify mitigations for hazardous situations
• Document traceability from software requirements and software hazard analyses to module verification tests and system verification tests

Qualifications

• Required Skills and Experience
• Experience recruiting, mentoring, and functionally managing teams of highly skilled engineers
• Experience in all phases of software development including evaluation, planning and definition, design & implementation, Verification & Validation, Market Launch, and Post Market