Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Advanced Energy

• Sunnyvale, CA, United States
• Not Remote
• Engineering
• JOB
  216197

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.

• Lead team of engineers on the definition, development, and launch of new products in our growing advanced energy portfolio of products within intuitive surgical across multiple generations of robotic platforms.
• The successful candidate must excel in a high-energy small, focused team environment, be able to drive to solutions from rough requirements and methodical prototype iterations and have a commitment to high product quality that places patients first.
• Quick learning and a desire to understand requirements from a user’s and engineering’s perspective are essential to become a valuable leader. 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.

• Own the complete medical device software lifecycle for several products, covering requirement definition, systematic risk assessment, prototyping, development, testing, and release per relevant internal procedures & external regulations.
• Lead team of firmware and software engineers through the development lifecycle of multiple products.
• Drive efforts to improve and establish new processes for software development (e.g., code reviews, scrums, bug scrubbing meetings, coding conventions, continuous integration, defensive programming, static analysis, design patterns).
• Drive technical development across a variety of areas such as board bring up, platform development, controls algorithms, OS management, cybersecurity, and safety software.
• Interface with a multitude of technical and product teams, understanding embedded software needs in order to create, maintain, and track a bottom-up schedule that best support top-down goals.

Required Education, Skills & Experience

• Minimum 10 years of embedded software or related experience.
• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 3-5 years management experience.
• Extensive experience with developing 62304 compliant software, including creating, presenting, and refining software documentation and design controls.
• In-depth experience working with embedded systems and safety-critical, complex embedded systems, including failure mode and risk analysis.
• Extensive experience planning and executing complex software deliverables on tight deadline and with interdependencies with hardware development.
• Experience in all phases of the product development lifecycle including design, implementation, debug, verification, validation, and transfer to manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of version control systems such as Git and experience with defining and executing software release processes.
• Experience recruiting, mentoring, and functionally managing teams of highly skilled engineers.
• A real excitement to learn and to get to the bottom of tough technical problems, and to help patient’s lives.

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that…