Senior FPGA Engineer, Surgical Robotics (Onsite)

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Incentives

Job summary

Intuitive is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer for the da Vinci Surgical System to develop and support advanced FPGA solutions from concept to launch. You will work on video processing, high-speed communications, and embedded compute integration while balancing system and product requirements.

The position requires deep Verilog/SystemVerilog expertise, hands-on FPGA design, and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality surgical devices.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years designing electronic devices with FPGA or 6 years with a Master's.
• Proficiency with Verilog for synthesis and verification.
• Experience with Xilinx FPGA families: Spartan, Artix, Virtex, Kintex, UltraScale, Ultrascale+ MPSoC.
• Experience with Xilinx design tools: ISE, Vivado, ModelSim, TCL scripting, Chipscope/ILA, Microblaze.

Responsibilities

• Develop FPGA implementations for video signal processing, DMA, high-speed communications, sensor integration, motor control.
• Write FPGA RTL in Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• Integrate, debug and support the product after launch.
• Create design documentation and verification protocols.
• Lead technical design on cross-functional teams for new surgical devices.
• Collaborate with quality and regulatory processes.

Skills

Verilog

FPGA design

Xilinx FPGA

Vivado

ModelSim

TCL scripting

Chipscope/ILA

MicroBlaze

SoC (Zynq)

ARM cores (SoC)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree

PhD (optional)

Tools

ISE

Vivado

ModelSim

Chipscope/ILA

Job description

Intuitive is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer for the da Vinci Surgical System to develop and support advanced FPGA solutions from concept to launch. You will work on video processing, high-speed communications, and embedded compute integration while balancing system and product requirements.

The position requires deep Verilog/SystemVerilog expertise, hands-on FPGA design, and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality surgical devices.