What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Embedded Software Engineer – Real time position at Intuitive?
Company Description
At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.
Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.
Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.
Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.
Job Description
Primary Function of Position
We seek a Embedded Software Engineer to join the Future Forward Research group at Intuitive Surgical. Our group’s role is to explore new promising technologies for future products and services in the emerging computer- and robot-assisted medical interventions field. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on the design and development of system software and digital applications for the latest hardware targeting end-users involved in surgical robotic procedures. The successful candidate must excel in an agile, focused, small-team environment and commit to high-quality research prototypes and supporting infrastructure. A strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required.
Essential Job Duties
This position is responsible for all aspects of system software development, associated tooling, and infrastructure to explore and build a novel telesurgery system.
Required Skills and Experience
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 Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action 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.
EEO and AA Policy
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.
We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.
Base Salary Range Region 1:$178,800 - $257,200
Base Salary Range Region 2: $151,900 - $218,700
Shift: Day
Travel: 10% of the time
Workplace Type: Onsite - This job is fully onsite.
At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.
Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.
Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.
Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.
Job Description
Primary Function of Position
We seek a Embedded Software Engineer to join the Future Forward Research group at Intuitive Surgical. Our group’s role is to explore new promising technologies for future products and services in the emerging computer- and robot-assisted medical interventions field. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on the design and development of system software and digital applications for the latest hardware targeting end-users involved in surgical robotic procedures. The successful candidate must excel in an agile, focused, small-team environment and commit to high-quality research prototypes and supporting infrastructure. A strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required.
Essential Job Duties
This position is responsible for all aspects of system software development, associated tooling, and infrastructure to explore and build a novel telesurgery system.
- Design, build, debug, and deploy embedded real-time applications using C, C , C#, Matlab, and Python on platforms like Linux, QNX and Windows.
- Develop a modular, robust, fail-safe, embedded applications that run on heterogeneous, multi-processor SoC/FPGA/real-time-embedded environment.
- Build compelling prototypes to demonstrate the technical feasibility and to define the product roadmap.
- Construct a platform agnostic software pipeline to transmit real time data such as kinetic, audio, video, and system data, and integrate in to embedded system for high performance and through put.
- Participate in software architecture discussions, code reviews, and user studies design.
- Responsible for unity testing and integrating the code for function testing, robustness, and reliability.
- Cross-functional requirements discussions, ranging from customer-facing clinical needs to safety requirements.
- Translating early requirements into prototype implementations to evaluate and assess a novel and sophisticated robotic system.
- Apply good software engineering practices to write elegant, maintainable, reusable code.
- Create documentation for the developed features and techniques that were tried, rejected, or implemented.
Required Skills and Experience
- Proven track record in building real-time embedded systems and real-time applications.
- Strong problem-solving skills and debugging of complex embedded software and electromechanical systems.
- Experience in developing for embedded Linux and/or QNX at multiple levels, such as hardware bring-up, drivers, application.
- Demonstrated proficiency in C, C , C#, Python, and MATLAB.
- Experience with multi-threaded and multi-processor/multi-core systems.
- Experience with communication protocols such as TCP/IP, CAN and serialization protocols such as protobuf.
- Experience with publish/subscribe architectures, REST interfaces, and interprocess communications.
- Strong communication skills and a commitment to collaborative team success.
- Exceptional programming skills with a deep understanding of software engineering principles and methodologies.
- Disciplined approach to debugging with a persistent attitude towards solving problems.
- Minimum Master’s degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field. Advanced degrees preferred.
- A minimum of 8 years of experience developing and supporting embedded systems (or 5 years with a PhD).
- Hands-on engineering experience with proven ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Demonstrated experience and comfort with all phases of the product development lifecycle (design, implementation, debug, verification, validation, and transfer to manufacturing).
- Ability to build and maintain relationships across supported organizations.
- Knowledge of serial-arm robot kinematics.
- Knowledge of classical and modern servo control systems.
- Experience building digital applications interfacing with the latest AI/ML models.
- Experience designing software products in a regulated industry or for mission-critical applications
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 Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action 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.
EEO and AA Policy
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.
We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.
Base Salary Range Region 1:$178,800 - $257,200
Base Salary Range Region 2: $151,900 - $218,700
Shift: Day
Travel: 10% of the time
Workplace Type: Onsite - This job is fully onsite.
Salary : $151,900 - $257,200
