Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Product Security

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

Job summary

Intuitive is seeking a security-focused engineer to strengthen the security posture of surgical robotic systems and related manufacturing processes. You will design and implement security features across embedded platforms, lead threat modeling, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure product development and manufacturing standards.

You will contribute to OS security hardening, secure communications, and interface hardening while aligning with regulatory requirements and

Qualifications

• Experience in secure product development for medical devices.
• Knowledge of embedded OS security hardening and risk mitigation.
• Ability to perform threat modeling and risk analysis for complex systems.
• Familiarity with Yocto Linux and QNX environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement security solutions for products and manufacturing processes.
• Collaborate with security teams to validate requirements and mitigations.
• Advance OS security hardening across embedded platforms and reduce attack surface.
• Apply network security principles to device architectures and secure communications.
• Design security features across embedded platforms including Yocto Linux and QNX.
• Coordinate with product, manufacturing, legal, regulatory, QA, and engineering teams on security issues.
• Present security architectures and mitigation strategies to stakeholders.
• Review system designs and advise on hardware choices to meet security needs.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Risk analysis

Security mitigations

Embedded security

Yocto Linux

QNX

Kernel patching

Access control policies

Filesystem protections

Network security

Secure communications

Network segmentation

Interface hardening

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Yocto Linux

QNX

Job description

Job Description

This role contributes broadly to the Product Security Team and product development groups by designing, building, and maintaining security solutions and features for current and next-generation surgical robotic systems and manufacturing processes. This position is responsible for improving the overall security posture of products through security analysis, threat modeling, risk analysis, and development of mitigation strategies.

The role supports cross-functional teams and collaborates across multiple departments to ensure secure product development and manufacturing standards. This position operates within a dynamic, high-energy team environment and is committed to delivering high product quality across embedded platforms, host-side applications, and networked medical device ecosystems.

Essential Job Duties

• Design, develop, and implement security solutions and features for products and manufacturing processes.
• Collaborate with security analysis and implementation teams to validate security requirements and mitigations are correctly implemented.
• Contribute toOS security hardening across embedded platforms, covering kernel patching, access control policies, filesystem protections, and reducing attack surface at the system level.
• Apply network security principles to medical device architectures, including secure communication protocols, network segmentation, and interface hardening.
• Design and implement security features across embedded platforms including Yocto Linux and QNX, adapting to additional environments based on product and program requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, manufacturing, legal, regulatory, quality assurance, and engineering to address security concerns and compliance.
• Develop and present security architectures and mitigation strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Reviewsystem designs, advise on hardware component selection, and ensuresecurity requirements are addressed from the ground up.