Senior ML Engineer - Computer Vision & Robotics Innovator

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

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.