Senior Embedded Real-Time Software Engineer (Robotics)

Intuitive Surgical, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. is seeking a software engineer for the Servo Frameworks and Simulator team. You will contribute to real-time, embedded C++ software that powers the da Vinci Surgical System, focusing on performance, safety, and reliability.

You will collaborate across Platform Software, Hardware, and Clinical teams, drive solutions from rough requirements, and own areas of responsibility while delivering high-quality features for next-generation products.

Qualifications

• Experience with C++ in embedded real-time environments.
• Ability to drive solutions from rough requirements in a cross-functional environment.
• Ownership of areas of responsibility and of the overall product.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop product-focused, robust, efficient, and elegant C++ software in a heterogeneous, multi-processor real-time-embedded environment.
• Lead efforts to modularize and unify robotics software frameworks across multiple platforms and product lines.
• Leverage systems software building blocks to provide software functionality for multiple Intuitive Surgical robotic systems, maximizing flexibility and modularity while maintaining peak performance.
• Analyze and quantify overall system performance and safety, including verification of adherence to specifications as well as identification of improvement opportunities.
• Extend existing tools and create new tools to support such analysis efforts.
• Interface and collaborate effectively and respectfully with other teams, including Platform Software, Hardware, System Analysis, System Test, User Interface Software Engineering, Manufacturing and Clinical Engineering.

Skills

C++

Job description

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. is seeking a software engineer for the Servo Frameworks and Simulator team. You will contribute to real-time, embedded C++ software that powers the da Vinci Surgical System, focusing on performance, safety, and reliability.

You will collaborate across Platform Software, Hardware, and Clinical teams, drive solutions from rough requirements, and own areas of responsibility while delivering high-quality features for next-generation products.