Senior FPGA Engineer - Surgical Robotics

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  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.

Job Description The Senior FPGA Engineer will develop and support innovative surgical devices and accessories for the da Vinci Surgical System, from concept to launch and beyond, with shared responsibility and shared reward. The successful candidate will understand user needs and requirements, balance individual product-level requirements with system-level requirements, developing complex FPGA solutions for communications, video, control processing and other advanced capabilities, and commit to the highest product quality.

Roles & Responsibilities :

FPGA implementations of one or more of the following: video signal processing, DMA, high-speed communications, sensor integration, motor control, and integration of modern embedded computing modules.

Develop all FPGA RTL in Verilog and System Verilog.

Integrate, debug and support the product after launch.

Write detailed design documentation, including specifications and verification protocols.

Serve as lead technical designer on cross-functional project teams to develop new world-class surgical devices and accessories.

Collaborate and support the quality and regulatory processes.

Qualifications Required Education, Skills & Experience Minimum of 8 years of experience designing electronic devices with FPGA's and a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years of experience and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience

Proficiency with Verilog for both synthesis and verification

Proficiency in FPGA design or front-end IC design

Experience working with Xilinx FPGA families such as:
Spartan, Artix, Virtex, Kintex, Ultra Scale and Ultrascale+ MPSoCExperience with Xilinx FPGA design tools (such as ISE, Vivado, Model Sim, TCL scripting, Chipscope/Integrated Logic Analyzer (ILA), Microblaze compiler, etc.)In-depth knowledge of FPGA architecture, design, verification, and debug (Xilinx)
Desired Skills & Experience

Experience with SoC including (e.g., Zynq with ARM cores) and soft processors (e.g. Micro Blaze) is desirable

Experience with Gigabit ethernet, DDR3/DD4, DSP implementations on FPGAsEffectively use of troubleshooting and measurement equipment like oscilloscopes, multimeters, function generators, custom test platforms, spectrum analyzer, etc.

Extensive experience working at all phases of the product lifecycle, from concept to continuous improvement (sustaining)
Additional Information 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.

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