Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Primary Function of the Position

The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will work with a group of talented and dedicated people to improve and extend Intuitives 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.

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.

Contribute to multiple areas of software development for our distributed multi-processor systems including but not limited to the following areas :

• Video and / or servo hardware control and monitoring.
• Inter-processor communication subsystem development.
• Extension of current processing frameworks to new processors and hardware designs.
• System diagnostic and service application development
• User interface development.
• Control and integration of external OEM devices.
• Development of research prototypes used to evaluate new product concepts.
• Contribute to the definition and specification of future designs.
• Support root cause analysis and issue resolution for released products and products in production.

• 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 and supporting manufacturing organizations.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships across supported organizations.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Experience with build systems such as Bazel GNU Make and CMake EMake.
• Experience with revision control systems such as Git and SVN.

Bachelor / Master / PhD degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Software Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

8 years industry experience in developing and supporting embedded systems.

None

• Experience designing software products in an FDA or other regulated industry.
• Experience with hardware design.
• Experience with UI design.
• Experience with QNX QML and Qt.
• Experience with Verilog / VHDL to read and understand designs.

Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and / or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.

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