Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Company Description

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.

• Primary Function of the Position
• The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will work with a group of talented and dedicated people to
• improve and extend Intuitive’s surgical robotic product lines. The successful candidate will contribute to
• the Product Engineering Software Engineering Group, with focused contribution on embedded software
• for da Vinci™ Surgical System products. As a member of the team, you will be involved in delivering
• features to the surgical customer by integrating complex functionality into complete surgical robot
• solutions and seeing these through to product release as well as resolving issues after release if
• necessary. The successful candidate must excel in a high-energy small, focused team environment, be
• able to drive to solutions from rough requirements, and have a commitment to high product quality. Quick
• learning and a desire to understand requirements and create solutions are essential to become a
• valuable integrator and system developer. A strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is
• required, as is the ability to make work fun and interesting. Supporting you will be a development and
• management team that knows and cares about what you are doing and wants you to succeed.
• Essential Job Duties
• Contribute to the development of software risks, hazards, mitigations, requirements,
• specifications, designs, reliability, modularity, extensibility, and verification & validation.
• Ability and desire to read and understand a legacy codebase that includes low-level and multi-
• processing heterogeneous networked processors.
• Develop new features and investigate and resolve design issues.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines and groups.
• Support field service and manufacturing organizations.
• Contribute to multiple areas of software development for our distributed multi-processor systems,
• including but not limited to the following areas:
• o Video and/or servo hardware control and monitoring.
• o Inter-processor communication subsystem development.
• o Extension of current processing frameworks to new processors and hardware designs.
• o System diagnostic and service application development
• o User interface development.
• o Control and integration of external OEM devices.
• o Development of research prototypes used to evaluate new product concepts.
• o Contribute to the definition and specification of future designs.
• o Support root cause analysis and issue resolution for released products and products in
• production.

• Required Skills and Experience
• Experience developing embedded software in C/C++.
• Experience with Matlab, Python, or other scripting languages.
• Experience developing cross-platform software
• Experience with bare metal, real-time operating systems, and multithreaded programming.
  • Experience in low level driver development in embedded platforms.
  • Experience working with circuit board schematics and component data sheets.
  • Excellent debugging skill and strong ability to root cause and isolate system issues.
  • Experience in all phases of software development including evaluation, planning and definition,design & implementation, Verification & Validation, Market Launch, and Post Market.
  • Experience in working…