10 hours ago
Base Salary
$160k - $271k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain a custom Yocto/OpenEmbedded Linux distribution, including layers, BitBake recipes, image configuration, SDKs, toolchains, and OS upgrades.
- Bring up and qualify commercial laptop hardware platforms, including driver configuration, BIOS and firmware settings, peripheral validation, and compatibility testing.
- Maintain secure boot across hardware platforms using UEFI Secure Boot, GRUB2, TPM 2.0, bootloader signing, key management, and BIOS interactions.
- Develop and support field software update and service upgrade workflows, including package validation, partition management, rollback, BIOS firmware upgrades, and error recovery.
- Debug platform-level boot, reboot, TPM, login, USB/HID, storage, display/GPU, and update failures.
- Implement platform services, utilities, scripts, APIs, diagnostics, and software documentation for application, field service, manufacturing, and systems teams.
- Perform Linux security hardening and vulnerability remediation, including CVE fixes, account and permission hardening, kernel/module configuration, and endpoint security integration.
- Produce design documents, change-analysis artifacts, test evidence, and technical documentation in accordance with medical-device quality procedures.
- Collaborate with application software, security, field service, systems engineering, hardware, manufacturing, and quality teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 6+ years of industry experience, or a master’s degree with 4+ years of industry experience, in computer science, computer engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- At least 4 years of embedded Linux software engineering experience with direct OS-layer development experience.
- Hands-on experience building, customizing, debugging, and maintaining Linux-based product platforms.
- Deep Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded experience, including meta-* layer authoring, BitBake recipes, image manifests, and SDK toolchain configuration.
- Proficiency in Bash and at least one system-level language, preferably C or C++.
- Experience designing and implementing field software updates involving package validation, partition management, rollback, and error recovery.
- Knowledge of Linux security hardening, permissions, privilege controls, credential management, kernel modules, and security scanning tools.
- Experience managing hardware lifecycle transitions and qualifying replacement platforms across hardware generations.
- Hardware bring-up experience on x86 laptops or embedded platforms, including drivers and USB, HID/trackpad, display-adapter, and storage debugging.
- Familiarity with D-Bus IPC, systemd service management, and Linux logging infrastructure.
- Proficiency with Git, Jira, Bitbucket or GitHub, and Jenkins or an equivalent CI/CD toolchain.
- Preferred experience with UEFI Secure Boot, GRUB2 signing, TPM 2.0, PCR policy binding, BIOS firmware interaction, secure key management, OTA or field-update frameworks, commercial laptop BIOS tools, NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, Qt, Linux partition management, networking, firewall management, endpoint security agents, and regulated medical-device development.
Benefits
- The position is fully onsite and is a regular employee role on the day shift.
- The compensation package includes base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity; the role has regional target salary ranges of $160,300–$230,700 and $188,600–$271,400.
- Certain roles may require proof of vaccination against specified diseases, including COVID-19.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities.
About Intuitive
Intuitive designs and manufactures robotic-assisted systems for minimally invasive procedures used by hospitals and surgeons, including the da Vinci surgical system and the Ion endoluminal platform for lung biopsy. Its business model combines capital equipment sales with recurring revenue from instruments, accessories, software, and service/training contracts. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Intuitive is publicly traded on NASDAQ (ISRG) and serves healthcare providers worldwide.