User Interface System Test 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.

The Staff Test Engineer will lead the development, execution, and continuous improvement of test strategies for complex electromechanical systems and software within Intuitive's products. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to define clear, testable, and traceable requirements, identify design gaps, and ensure comprehensive system-level test coverage. You will also drive alignment with regulatory and quality teams to ensure compliance with external standards and internal quality requirements.

Additionally, you will support team growth by participating in interviews, evaluating potential talents, and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate demonstrates deep technical expertise, strong accountability and ownership, leadership skills, and a passion for delivering safe, high-quality products.

• Partner closely with user interaction designers, system analysts, and developers to ensure clear, testable, traceable, complete, consistent requirements. Identify design gaps.
• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive and robust manual and automated test plans and protocols for end-to-end user interaction features, including - but not limited to - functional, integration, regression, coexistence, and user journey focused E2E testing.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts to support ongoing verification and validation activities.
• Log and manage issues in the issue tracking system, work with development and cross-functional teams to debug.
• Generate comprehensive and clear test documentation to contribute to product design history files and support regulatory submissions.
• Provide technical leadership at the project level by creating test strategies to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Support cross-functional decision-making by providing technical directions to resolve system quality issues.
• Represent the software test engineering function, leading alignment with regulatory and quality teams to ensure compliance with external standards (such as IEC 62304, FDA, ISO 13485) and internal quality requirements.
• Champion continuous improvement by streamlining and optimizing verification workflows, guiding the development and implementation of automated documentation tools, and utilizing test tool / metrics to enhance productivity, efficiency and improve overall software reliability.
• Mentor engineers promote best practices and facilitate knowledge sharing across the organization.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline with 8+ years of relevant experience
• Excellent knowledge of product / software development lifecycle, testing methodologies.
• Expertise in designing and executing tests for complex electromechanical systems and embedded software.
• Experience developing detailed test plans, assessing risks, filing detailed bug reports, and providing relevant data for test reporting.
• Strong experience in troubleshooting, triaging and providing detailed debug information for expediting issue resolution.
• Ability to drive cross-functional communication,…