5 days ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$135k - $228k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and implement control and sensing software for advanced mechatronic instrumentation.
- Work hands-on with mechatronic hardware for system bring-up, calibration, operation, experimentation, and debugging.
- Lead system optimization through experimental design, execution, data analysis, and visualization.
- Develop software interfaces with embedded systems engineers and electrical engineers for lower-level controllers and firmware.
- Collaborate with systems and mechanical engineering on control boards, motors, sensors, and other hardware components.
- Write maintainable code, software designs, error-recovery documentation, requirements, design specifications, and quality-system test protocols.
- Write and execute unit tests and maintain strong software test coverage.
- Use Python and other scripting languages for hardware prototype bring-up, test automation, and data analysis.
- Support medical device software development, including risk analysis and cybersecurity, through design, implementation, verification, validation, and manufacturing transfer.
- Prioritize and debug software issues while delivering technical milestones with a multidisciplinary engineering team.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field plus 3+ years of industry experience, or a PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of C#, C, and C++ for real-time and pseudo-real-time control on Linux.
- Experience architecting and developing motion-control, sensing, and state-machine software for production diagnostic instruments or medical robots.
- Strong experimental design, empirical data collection, analysis, and visualization skills using scripting languages such as Python.
- Experience developing medical-device software under FDA requirements, including software risk analysis and cybersecurity across the product development lifecycle.
- Strong analytical skills and a creative mindset.
- Preferred: experience with low-latency machine controls, high-speed precision optics, biological sample processing, OpenCV, deterministic performance optimization, or backend software for instrument data storage and network transmission.
Benefits
- Fully onsite work arrangement at offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a day shift.
- Market-competitive compensation package including base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity.
- Certain roles may require proof of vaccination against specified diseases, including COVID-19.
- The role may be subject to U.S. export-control licensing or a Technology Control Plan, which can affect hiring timelines.
About Intuitive
Intuitive (Nasdaq: ISRG), headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., is a global technology leader in minimally invasive care and the pioneer of robotic-assisted surgery. At Intuitive, 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.