Senior AI Data Engineer for Robotic-Surgery Data

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive is seeking a Senior AI/Data Science Engineer to advance data strategy and engineering for curated, research-ready datasets used by AI/ML teams developing intelligent surgical systems. You will shape data collection and build scalable infrastructure.

This role blends hands-on data work with systems design across robotic platform, surgical field, and operating room environment, collaborating with surgeons and researchers to turn observations into reliable signals for model development.

Responsibilities

• Architect data models and pipelines that integrate surgical data into well-structured datasets across the robotic platform, surgical field, and operating room environment.
• Drive the data collection strategy: assess data coverage and plan collection approaches to address evolving research needs.
• Own data quality frameworks including validation, anomaly detection, completeness metrics, and lineage tracking so datasets are reliable enough to support training of intelligent surgical systems.
• Drive annotation workflows, including label taxonomy, tooling selection, and quality control, in collaboration with surgeons, clinical researchers, and domain experts.
• Partner with AI/ML researchers to understand downstream requirements and deliver well-documented datasets ready for model development.
• Build tooling that makes it easy for researchers to find, access, and work with surgical datasets.
• Collaborate with surgeons, clinical research teams, robotics engineers, and systems engineers to understand how physical actions and perception translate into data, and ensure relevant signals are captured.
• Contribute to the broader data strategy for embodied AI, including infrastructure and tooling recommendations aligned with research needs.

Job description

Intuitive is seeking a Senior AI/Data Science Engineer to advance data strategy and engineering for curated, research-ready datasets used by AI/ML teams developing intelligent surgical systems. You will shape data collection and build scalable infrastructure.

This role blends hands-on data work with systems design across robotic platform, surgical field, and operating room environment, collaborating with surgeons and researchers to turn observations into reliable signals for model development.