Senior Software Engineer, Robotic Navigation & Vision

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive is seeking a Sr Software Engineer Navigation to bridge embedded UI, CV/ML, and robotic kinematics on surgical navigation platforms. You will design C++ runtime systems that connect live sensor data to perception and inference in resource-constrained hardware.

The role requires building high-performance data pipelines, implementing calibration and registration algorithms, and collaborating with ML and UI teams to deliver accurate, low-latency navigation solutions within a compliant

Qualifications

• Strong C++ skills for embedded systems on resource-constrained hardware.
• Experience with computer vision, robotics, and ML integration.
• Familiarity with real-time data pipelines and latency budgets.
• Collaborative, cross-disciplinary team player.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance C++ data pipelines (shared-memory ring buffers, lock-free queues, time-synchronized capture) feeding live video, kinematics, and sensor streams into CV/ML on embedded platforms.
• Develop and optimize registration and calibration algorithms (point-cloud alignment, hand-eye calibration, forward kinematics transformations).
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate inference models into the real-time navigation stack, ensuring accuracy and latency budgets.
• Partner with UI/graphics engineers to create navigation overlays, 3D visualizations, and augmented guidance within the embedded Qt/QML interface.
• Build and maintain relationships across software engineering, clinical engineering, design, human factors, and regulatory teams.
• Own the medical device software lifecycle end-to-end for navigation components, including requirements, risk, prototyping, development, verification, and release.

Skills

C++

Embedded systems

Computer vision

Robotics

Qt/QML

Real-time systems

Algorithms optimization

Data pipelines

Tools

Qt

Job description

Intuitive is seeking a Sr Software Engineer Navigation to bridge embedded UI, CV/ML, and robotic kinematics on surgical navigation platforms. You will design C++ runtime systems that connect live sensor data to perception and inference in resource-constrained hardware.

The role requires building high-performance data pipelines, implementing calibration and registration algorithms, and collaborating with ML and UI teams to deliver accurate, low-latency navigation solutions within a compliant