Senior Software Engineer

Location: Cambridge, MA — in-person strongly preferred

To apply: Email  with your resume/Linked In and three bullets demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability.

Lambda Surgical is building physical intelligence for surgery. As more procedures move to camera-based approaches, surgeons increasingly operate from a 2D projection rather than a true spatial understanding of the operative field.

Our first product, Lambda Guide, is a LiDAR-based spatial measurement system designed to integrate into existing endoscopic and robotic workflows and improve intraoperative precision. Pending FDA clearance, Lambda Guide has the potential to dramatically change how surgeons measure, navigate, and make decisions inside the body.

Backed by some of the world's leading technology investors, Lambda is building toward a future in which surgery is more precise, more intelligent, and more autonomous. Ultimately, we believe Lambda Guide will become the foundation for autonomous surgery by enabling the same core capability that unlocked autonomy in robotics: an adaptive world model that learns from expert human operators.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to own Lambda's software engineering function, from architecture and implementation through release management, deployment, documentation, and long‑term maintainability. You will be responsible for the software that ships with Lambda Guide as well as the internal tools that accelerate research, development, manufacturing, and customer demonstrations.

This role spans product engineering and rapid technical development. One day you might be implementing production‑ready software for an FDA‑regulated medical device; the next you might be building an interactive visualization, research prototype, manufacturing utility, or conference demo. You'll work closely with imaging, algorithms, firmware, systems, hardware, and quality engineers to integrate cutting‑edge sensing technology into polished, reliable software products.

This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys building software across the full stack, creating intuitive user experiences, defining engineering processes, and taking ownership of the complete software lifecycle at an early‑stage medical device company.

• Own the architecture, development, and long‑term technical direction of Lambda's software platform, including product software, visualization tools, internal engineering applications, and device communication.
• Design and implement production‑quality software for Lambda Guide, including user interfaces, visualization, workflow management, device control, configuration, diagnostics, and data management.
• Develop software to communicate with cameras, embedded systems, sensors, and hardware peripherals.
• Build intuitive user interfaces that allow surgeons and researchers to visualize images, point clouds, measurements, calibration, and system status in real time.
• Rapidly prototype research software, customer demos, proof‑of‑concepts, and internal tools that accelerate engineering, product development, and business development.
• Collaborate closely with imaging, perception, firmware, systems, and hardware engineers to integrate new capabilities into the product.
• Build internal software tools for calibration, testing, manufacturing, debugging, data collection, visualization, annotation, and engineering workflows.
• Optimize software performance for real‑time image processing, visualization, and hardware interaction.
• Own the software release process, including versioning, release planning, deployment, software configuration management, release documentation, and long‑term maintenance.
• Maintain software architecture documentation, design documentation, release notes, technical documentation, and software artifacts required to support design controls and regulatory submissions.
• Establish software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, issue tracking, and software quality processes.
• Work closely with Systems Engineering and Quality to ensure software documentation, verification activities, traceability, and…