Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Robotic Surgery Systems

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 322,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive is a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, transforming care delivery with technologies like the da Vinci system and Ion. The role focuses on embedded software for high-assurance medical devices, leading software design, risk analysis, and cross-functional collaboration.

The successful candidate will design and integrate software for distributed multi-processor systems, work with hardware teams on PCAs/FPGA IP, and ensure regulatory compliance in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, or similar technical field.
• A minimum of 12 years of experience in developing and supporting embedded systems (or 8 years with a Master’s degree, or 5 years with a PhD).
• Fluent in designing and developing mission-critical cross-platform code in C++ or C, with focus on embedded and real time systems (e.g. QNX).
• Fluent with embedded compute architectures, and their development and testing methodologies, including hardware debugging.

Responsibilities

• Gather high-level cross-functional requirements, ranging from customer-facing, clinical and safety requirements, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders on the definition of development plans and timelines, that combine technical needs with schedule and resource need.
• Identify interfaces and communication requirements between hardware and software components, architect modular and testable software that supports the system high-level behaviors.
• Support prototyping and development activities of novel surgical robotic platforms, by leveraging and adapting the existing infrastructure that is shared across all Intuitive robotic systems; learn from each iteration, refine and extend code quickly and methodically.
• Lead formal risk analysis; identify additional hardware requirements and develop software mitigations.
• Act as software lead in the high-level specification, bring-up and integration of new custom PCAs and FPGA IP.
• Perform detailed design, development, documentation and support verification activities of embedded software and supervisory state machines, in compliance with regulatory requirements and Intuitive's internal guidelines.
• Contribute broadly to multiple areas of software development for our distributed multi-processor systems, including but not limited to video and servo hardware control and monitoring, inter-processor communication subsystem development, system diagnostic and service application development, user interface development.
• Apply high level and specialized industry expertise that results in new innovations and problem-solving approaches that can be leveraged across multiple products.
• Represent your project ably in interactions externally with key customer collaborators and internally within the company.

Skills

C/C++ embedded

RTOS

TCP/IP CAN

Python scripting

FPGA tools Vivado

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/CE

Tools

Vivado

FPGA development tools

Job description

Intuitive is a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, transforming care delivery with technologies like the da Vinci system and Ion. The role focuses on embedded software for high-assurance medical devices, leading software design, risk analysis, and cross-functional collaboration.

The successful candidate will design and integrate software for distributed multi-processor systems, work with hardware teams on PCAs/FPGA IP, and ensure regulatory compliance in a