Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical's AI Engineering group in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with focus on Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Generative AI and Robotics to develop next-generation robot-assisted surgery technologies.

The role emphasizes leading AI research and algorithm design, collaborating with clinicians to test and validate ML/CV solutions, and contributing to product-ready prototypes.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI research in computer vision and multimodal data.
• Ability to drive new research directions in a small, high-energy team.
• Commitment to high research quality and publication output.

Responsibilities

• Lead the research, design, and implementation of AI algorithms for computer vision, multimodal data, and action models
• Contribute to surgical AI and robotics pipelines; test and evaluate vision and language action models
• Lead development from idea to prototype and product
• Contribute to research projects in computer vision, robotics, and multi-modal data fusion
• Advance state-of-the-art including patents and publications
• Develop validation methods, datasets, and evaluation metrics for large clinical datasets
• Participate in integration of ML/CV algorithms into robotic platforms
• Collaborate with users and clinical advisors to iterate designs
• Develop new technologies and digital products to improve surgeon performance
• Support academic collaborations

Skills

Computer vision

Deep learning

Generative AI

Robotics

Research leadership

Small-team collaboration

Job description

Job Description

The AI Engineering group within Intuitive Surgical has an immediate opening in Sunnyvale, CA for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with focus on Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Generative AI and Robotics, contributing to new technology development for next-generation robot-assisted surgery platforms. This role is an exciting opportunity to join a newly formed team and contribute to its growth and it will give you an opportunity to test your knowledge in a challenging problem-solving environment.

The successful candidate must excel in a high-energy, focused, small-team environment, be able to initiate and drive new research directions, and have a commitment to high research quality. A strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required.

Primary Function of Position

• Lead the research, design, and implementation of AI algorithms for computer vision (image and video analysis), multimodal data, and action models
• Contribute to surgical AI and robotics pipelines; integrate, test, and evaluate accuracy bottlenecks of vision action (VA), and vision language action (VLA) models
• Lead development of effective techniques and infrastructure, from the initial idea to the running prototype and product.
• Contribute to research projects that develop a variety of algorithms and systems in computer vision, robotics, and multi-modal data fusion.
• Advance the state-of-the-art in the field, including generating patents and publications.
• Develop validation methods, datasets, pipelines, and evaluation metrics to show scalability to large clinical datasets.
• Participate in integration of new ML/CV algorithms into existing and future robotic platforms.
• Collaborate with users and clinical advisors to iterate prototype designs based on feedback and performance.
• Develop new technologies and digital products to improve surgeon and team performance on robotic surgery platforms.
• Support academic collaborations in related fields.