Embedded Software Engineer - Robotics Platform

Intuitive Surgical, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 158,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a software engineer to develop embedded application software and platform services for the Ion endoluminal system.

You will work with hardware, systems, and test teams to design and debug reliable software on a heterogeneous platform including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and accelerators. The role emphasizes C/C++ development, software architecture, data management, and building reusable services and APIs for scalable robotic software platforms.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry experience in embedded software or equivalent.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field, or a Master's with experience.
• Experience with Linux/POSIX-based development and debugging tools.
• Experience with multi-threaded programming, IPC, and API design.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain C/C++ apps and middleware on embedded Linux.
• Develop reusable system services, libraries, and APIs.
• Create software for configuration, diagnostics, and system management.
• Integrate software across CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and other accelerators.
• Perform debugging, verification, and bring-up activities.

Skills

C/C++ development

Embedded Linux

Multi-threaded programming

IPC / inter-process communication

API design

Object-oriented design

Linux debugging tools

Python or shell scripting

Linux / POSIX

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related

Master's degree in CS/EE or related

Tools

Git

Yocto/OpenEmbedded

SQLite

gdb

Job description

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a software engineer to develop embedded application software and platform services for the Ion endoluminal system.

You will work with hardware, systems, and test teams to design and debug reliable software on a heterogeneous platform including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and accelerators. The role emphasizes C/C++ development, software architecture, data management, and building reusable services and APIs for scalable robotic software platforms.