Staff Electrical Engineer – Robotic Surgery Systems

Intuitive; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical in the United States seeks a Staff Electrical Engineer to join the Advanced Product Development team. You will lead embedded architecture definition, motor control systems, and high-speed compute platform PCB design for robot-assisted surgery solutions.

You will collaborate with FPGA, mechanical, software, and controls teams to deliver verified, validated, and manufacturable products. A BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering and 12+ years of embedded hardware experience are

Qualifications

• Minimum BS degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• Minimum 12 years industry experience in embedded system design.
• Demonstrated expertise in dense Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design.
• Strong understanding of digital logic design and transmission line theory.
• Strong understanding of BLDC motor control systems, GAN FETs, Current sensing mechanisms.
• Design experience with products that have real-world physical interaction (sensing and actuation).
• Experience in design, testing, and troubleshooting to meet electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) requirements.
• Familiarity with a broad range of electronic components and hardware, including FPGAs (Xilinx preferred), memories, logic, signal conditioning, and communication interfaces.
• Expertise with schematic capture tools (OrCAD preferred).
• PCB layout experience desired (Allegro preferred).
• Exposure to FPGA logic design, tools, and verification process (Verilog and ModelSim preferred).
• Excellent ability to debug and characterize electronic systems using standard bench test equipment such as oscilloscopes, function generators, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, etc.
• Proficiency in using scripting languages for development and test (Python preferred).
• Experience with all phases of the product development lifecycle, including design, implementation, debug, verification, validation, and transfer to manufacturing.
• Comfort with concepts of design input, design output, traceability, and risk analysis.
• Hands-on engineering experience with proven ability to work well in a team environment.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• A passion to get to the root cause of tough technical problems!

Responsibilities

• Design, bring-up, and integration of custom PCAs.
• Architect communication, processing, and distribution of electronic subsystems across the product.
• Collaborate on system design and architecture with other Advanced Development team members, including FPGA logic design, mechanical, software and controls.
• Identify and implement components in actuation of robotic systems (sensing, motion, vision, UI, motor control).
• Implement PCB designs balancing performance, cost, and manufacturability.
• Perform board level bring-up and troubleshooting.
• Perform formal risk analysis and develop mitigations.
• Discover and develop new vendors and technologies for future platforms.
• Write detailed design documentation and verification plans per guidelines.
• Write V&V protocols and associated scripts.
• Follow design control methodology from design to manufacturing.

Skills

Embedded design

PCB design

Digital logic

BLDC motor control

EMC compliance

FPGA design

Schematic capture

Bench testing

Python scripting

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

OrCAD

Allegro

Verilog

ModelSim

Xilinx

Job description

Intuitive Surgical in the United States seeks a Staff Electrical Engineer to join the Advanced Product Development team. You will lead embedded architecture definition, motor control systems, and high-speed compute platform PCB design for robot-assisted surgery solutions.

You will collaborate with FPGA, mechanical, software, and controls teams to deliver verified, validated, and manufacturable products. A BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering and 12+ years of embedded hardware experience are