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Base Salary
$160k - $271k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define technical requirements and design trade-offs with electrical, FPGA, manufacturing, service, and clinical teams.
- Develop and maintain embedded Linux platform software, including initialization, diagnostics, communication middleware, system services, and multithreaded C/C++ applications.
- Integrate and debug bootloaders, kernels, device trees, drivers, processors, FPGA hardware, PCIe, DMA, and other high-throughput interfaces.
- Analyze performance, latency, CPU, memory, I/O, and networking issues and conduct root-cause analysis of system failures.
- Design for robustness, fault detection, graceful degradation, and serviceability.
- Participate in design verification, validation, manufacturing transfer, architecture discussions, design reviews, demonstrations, and clinical or field activities.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote strong code quality, debugging, and design practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 6+ years of industry experience or master’s degree with 4+ years of industry experience in computer science, computer engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- At least 4 years of hands-on experience developing and supporting production embedded systems.
- Strong modern C/C++ proficiency, including C++11 or newer, for embedded and cross-platform development.
- Experience developing and debugging embedded Linux systems and multithreaded applications.
- Hands-on experience with Linux kernel drivers, board-support packages, device trees, bootloader integration, and low-level hardware interfaces.
- Experience integrating embedded Linux with FPGA, PCIe, DMA, custom ASICs, or other high-throughput hardware paths.
- Proficiency with Python 3 and Bash for tooling, automation, and diagnostics.
- Familiarity with TCP/IP, CAN, I2C, SPI, protobuf, embedded communication interfaces, and networked device integration.
- Understanding of embedded software architecture, modular design, inter-process communication, and system-level interfaces.
- Strong debugging skills across hardware, operating-system, middleware, and distributed-software layers.
- Experience with collaborative product-focused development, build automation, unit and integration testing, and the full product lifecycle.
- Preferred experience includes real-time or near-real-time systems, secure boot, authentication, encryption, key management, FDA-regulated or safety-critical systems, design controls, traceability, risk analysis, UDP, RTP, SRTP, SSL/TLS, GStreamer, Yocto/OpenEmbedded, PetaLinux, cross-compilation, and reproducible build systems.
Benefits
- Fully onsite, day-shift employee position.
- Market-competitive compensation package including base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during the application and interview process.
- The role may require proof of vaccination against certain diseases, depending on business or customer requirements.
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.