Senior Software Quality Engineer – SaMD & AI/ML

Intuitive Surgical, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. seeks a Senior Software Quality Engineer to provide independent quality oversight for SaMD/SiMD and cloud-connected healthcare solutions.

You will partner with Engineering, Regulatory, and Product Quality to drive quality by design across the software development lifecycle. The role requires strong software engineering knowledge, understanding of SDLC practices, and ability to challenge technical decisions with objective quality assessment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in software engineering, software quality engineering, or related fields.
• Experience with SDLC, risk-based assessment, and quality metrics.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent quality oversight across the software development lifecycle for SaMD/SiMD and cloud-connected health solutions.
• Influence quality practices early in product development and promote testability and design-for-quality.
• Participate in requirements, architecture, design, verification, cybersecurity, and release readiness reviews.

Skills

Quality engineering

DevOps

CI/CD

Regulatory compliance

Cybersecurity

AI/ML quality

Software architecture

Software quality leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Software Eng/EE/BI

Tools

Git-based SCM

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. seeks a Senior Software Quality Engineer to provide independent quality oversight for SaMD/SiMD and cloud-connected healthcare solutions.

You will partner with Engineering, Regulatory, and Product Quality to drive quality by design across the software development lifecycle. The role requires strong software engineering knowledge, understanding of SDLC practices, and ability to challenge technical decisions with objective quality assessment.