Job Description

Essential Job Duties
• Gather high-level cross-functional requirements, ranging from customer-facing
requirements to clinical and safety requirements, and cybersecurity
requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders on the definition of development
plans and timelines, that combine technical needs with schedule and resource
need.
• Identify interfaces and communication requirements between hardware and
software components, architect modular and testable software that supports the
system high-level behaviors.
• Support prototyping and development activities of novel surgical robotic
platforms, by leveraging and adapting the existing infrastructure that is shared
across all Intuitive robotic systems; learn from each iteration, refine and extend
code quickly and methodically.
• Lead formal risk analysis; identify additional hardware requirements and develop
software mitigations.
• Act as software lead in the high-level specification, bring-up and integration of
new custom PCAs and FPGA IP.
• Perform detailed design, development, documentation and support verification
activities of embedded software and supervisory state machines, in compliance
with regulatory requirements and Intuitive's internal guidelines.
• Contribute broadly to multiple areas of software development for our distributed
multi-processor systems, including but not limited to video and servo hardware
control and monitoring, inter-processor communication subsystem development,

system diagnostic and service application development, user interface
development
• Apply high level and specialized industry expertise that results in new innovations
and problem-solving approaches that can be leveraged across multiple products.
• Represent your project ably in interactions externally with key customer
collaborators and internally within the company.

Qualifications

Required Education and Training
• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or
Computer Engineering, or similar technical field.
• A minimum of 12 years of experience in developing and supporting embedded
systems (or 8 years with a Master's degree, or 5 years with a PhD degree).
Required Skills and Experience
• Fluent in designing and developing mission-critical cross-platform code in C++ or
C, with focus on embedded and real time systems (e.g. QNX).
• Fluent with embedded compute architectures, and their development and testing
methodologies, including hardware debugging.
• Fluent with communication protocols such as TCP/IP, CAN,
serialization protocols.
• Fluent with memory management, concurrency, synchronous and asynchronous
event handling.
• Working knowledge of Python or other scripting languages for automation,
diagnostics and testing. Familiarity with Vivado and other FPGA
development tools.
Preferred Skills and Experience
• Familiarity with servo-controls and electro-mechanical systems.
• Experience designing software products in a regulated industry or for
mission critical applications; comfort with concepts of design input, design
output, traceability, risk analysis, and mitigations.
• Familiarity with medical technology projects from inception through
field validation to launch. Strong understanding of medical product ecosystem
services.
• Familiarity with CUDA programming and memory management concepts.
• Cyber-security concepts such as secure boot, authentication and encryption.
• Hands-on engineering experience with proven ability to work effectively in a team
environment.

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.