Embedded Software Engineer - Platform

Intuitive • Sunnyvale, CA

4d

About The Position

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive . As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care , our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion —have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide. We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world. The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life. If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare , you’ll find your purpose here. Our team designs and builds the embedded platform software infrastructure that supports critical performance, safety and user-facing features of the da Vinci™ Surgical System, Intuitive’s flagship product. We’re looking for a high energy, talented, engineer to contribute broadly to the embedded software stack. In this role, you will use C++ & Python to develop network and systems software that expands the capabilities of Da Vinci 5 while improving robustness, reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience; or Master's degree and 3+ years of experience; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent experience
• Hands-on software development experience in modern C++ and familiarity with design patterns
• Experience working on product-focused designs in a team environment w/demonstrated ownership of your area of responsibility and of the overall product
• Proven ability to proactively engage with the unknown/unfamiliar, learn how things work and apply that learning to new challenges
• Python or shell scripting
• Experience with designing software products in an FDA or other regulated industry or for mission critical applications; comfortable with concepts of design input, design output, traceability, and risk analysis/mitigations

Responsibilities

• Enhance performance, robustness and telemetry data of the embedded, highly distributed, inter-processor communication network
• Develop thoughtful and safe system responses when compute nodes are added or removed from the network in areas of subsystem state restoration, in-flight data handling, fault reaction logic
• Develop methods of monitoring network latency and the associated system response when suboptimal connection conditions emerge
• Design and develop product-focused C++ software in a heterogeneous, multi-processor SoC/FPGA/real-time-embedded environment
• Analyze and quantify overall system performance and safety, including verification of adherence to specifications as well as identification of improvement opportunities, such as reduced latency and increased reliability/determinism
• Extend existing tools and create new tools to support such analysis efforts
• Develop aggregation of orphaned log/telemetry data in system failure conditions so backend data pipelines can create a complete view of the system state in those conditions
• Interface and collaborate with a cross-functional team, including Real-time Servo SW, Electrical and FPGA Engineering, Systems Analysis, User Interface Engineering, Manufacturing and Clinical Engineering to develop technical specifications and evaluate design trade-offs
• Perform formal risk analysis, define requirements, implement mitigations, draft and run V&V, and participate in design transfer to manufacturing activities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level