Intuitive

Instrument Software Engineer

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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.

Tech Stack

CC#C++IonicLinuxOpenCVPython

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About Intuitive

10,000+ employees

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.

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