Intuitive Surgical, Inc

Senior Full-Stack / AI Platform Engineer

Intuitive Surgical, Inc$140K — $170K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of frontend and backend systems
  • Strong Python skills, with experience in FastAPI or a similar async framework
  • Proficient in React + TypeScript
  • Experience integrating LLM/AI APIs into production applications
  • Familiarity with a major cloud provider (preferably Azure)
  • Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 / OIDC authentication flows
  • Comfortable collaborating with non-technical stakeholders to define product requirements

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain the frontend and backend of an internal platform from prototypes to production
  • Build integrations between the platform and cloud/AI infrastructure
  • Partner with business teams to translate workflows into working software
  • Implement secure authentication and data governance for sensitive information
  • Define and enhance engineering practices in testing, CI/CD, and observability
  • Iterate on the platform based on user feedback and usage patterns

Benefits

  • Market-competitive compensation packages including base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity
Full Job Description
Job Description

Intuitive is building a new AI-powered platform to support how our teams work day to day - combining a
modern web application, cloud-native backend services, and generative AI to make information easier to
find, questions easier to answer, and repetitive work easier to automate.
We're looking for a senior full-stack engineer to help build this platform from the ground up, working across
the entire stack and partnering closely with the business teams who will use it every day. This is a hands-on
role for someone who wants to help shape a new product from its earliest stages - from architecture
decisions through to what the end user actually sees and uses.

What You'll Do
  • Design, build, and maintain both the frontend and backend of a new internal platform, from early
  • prototypes through production
  • Build and maintain integrations between the platform and its underlying cloud and AI infrastructure
  • Partner directly with the business teams who will use the platform, translating their day-to-day workflows
  • into working software
  • Implement secure authentication, access control, and data governance appropriate for sensitive
  • business data
  • Help define and improve engineering practices - testing, CI/CD, deployment, and observability - as
  • the platform matures
  • Iterate quickly based on real usage and feedback, balancing speed with reliability


Qualifications

What We're Looking For
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with real production ownership across both frontend and backend systems
  • Strong Python skills, with hands-on experience in FastAPI or a comparable async Python web framework
  • Strong React + TypeScript experience
  • Experience integrating LLM/AI APIs into production applications - agentic or tool-calling patterns are a strong plus
  • Experience with a major cloud provider (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP experience with a willingness to go deep on Azure also considered)
  • Experience with OAuth 2.0 / OIDC authentication flows
  • Comfort working directly with non-technical business stakeholders to shape product requirements from ambiguous starting points
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments

Nice to Have
  • Experience with agent frameworks or tool-calling protocols (e.g., MCP)
  • Experience with background job processing and Redis (or similar)
  • Experience building products in a regulated or data-sensitive industry (healthcare, financial services, or
  • similar)
  • Experience with enterprise document platforms (Box, SharePoint, or similar)


What Success Looks Like in the First 90 Days
  • Core platform infrastructure - authentication, the application shell, and the underlying data model - is
  • up and running
  • The platform is answering real questions and handling real tasks for an initial group of users, with clear
  • traceability back to source data
  • You're running regular working sessions with business stakeholders and have shipped the platform's
  • first end-to-end automated workflow


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.

This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on
business need and/or on the selected candidate's experience, knowledge and skills.
Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the
candidate's qualifications, consistent with applicable law.

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 compensation ranges are listed.

About Intuitive Surgical, Inc

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. is an American corporation that develops, manufactures, and markets robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery, most notably with the da Vinci Surgical System. The company is part of the NASDAQ-100 and S&P 500. Intuitive Surgical has installed more than 5,000 surgical systems worldwide, and has more than 4,000 employees.
Learn more about Intuitive Surgical, Inc
Size
9,793 employees
Market Cap
$93.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1 billion
Founded
1999
5 Year Trend
+16.1%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
NASDAQ

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