Staff Software Engineer - Embedded Real-Time Software

Primary Function of Position

Our team is responsible for the realtime software infrastructure and supervisor state machines that support critical performance safety and userfacing features of the da Vinci Surgical System Intuitives flagship product. Our realtime software includes infrastructure for motion control algorithms audio intercom and system sounds data streaming and logging and platform support for our nextgeneration da Vinci Simulator product line. Because our workstreams depend upon and enable the work of other teams we occupy an exciting intersection of realtime architecture feature development and demonstration of product safety and reliability.

The successful candidate must excel in a highenergy focused smallteam and crossfunctional environment be able to drive to solutions from rough requirements and have a commitment to high product quality. They must demonstrate ownership of their areas of responsibility and of the overall product. A strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required. A demonstrated experience and comfort working with modern C in an embedded environment is required.

Essential Job Duties

• Design and develop productfocused robust efficient and elegant C software in a heterogeneous multiprocessor SoC/FPGA/realtimeembedded environment.
• Analyze and quantify overall system performance and safety including verification of adherence to specifications as well as identification of improvement opportunities such as reduced latency and increased reliability/determinism. Extend existing tools and create new tools to support such analysis efforts.
• Interface and collaborate effectively and respectfully with other teams including Platform Software Electrical Engineering and FPGA Design Mechanical Engineering System Analysis System Test User Interface Software Engineering Manufacturing and Clinical Engineering.
• Participate in product risk analysis defining requirements implementing mitigations and drafting and executing verification tests.
• Document software designs according to Intuitives development guidelines.
• Engage in crossfunctional resolution of critical problems.
• Identify and prove out new architectural enhancements to the software infrastructure and development processes that elevate the broader organization beyond your own team.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Leverage controlsystems software building blocks to provide servo functionality for multiple Intuitive Surgical robotic systems maximizing flexibility and modularity while maintaining peak performance.
• Extend audio software architecture to enable or improve userfacing audio features.
• Contribute to the design extension and testing of our supervisory state machine software that serve as the systems toplevel behavioral command control center.
• Develop and maintain the state machine software responsible for validating robotic instruments and transitioning between robotic surgical procedures.
• Develop a thorough systemlevel knowledge from a clinical user perspective.
• Consider and apply appropriate interprocess communication software design principles.
• Contribute to embedded software in support of the da Vinci simulator product family.
• Contribute to multiple areas of software development including but not limited to the following:
  • configuration and monitoring of custom motion control hardware.
  • realtime processing performance analysis.
  • extension of current processing frameworks to new processors and hardware designs.
  • design development and extension of offline hardware simulation environments to facilitate rapid software development and testing.
  • bringup of research prototypes used to evaluate new product concepts.
  • design and development of hardware / software diagnostic tools.

Qualifications :

Required Education and Experience

• 12 years of experience and a Bachelors degree; or 8 years of experience and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 5 years of experience; or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years (cumulative) industry and/or academic research/projectbased experience in developing embedded systems.
• Experience in developing realtime embedded software for one or more of the following areas (or similar): motioncontrol robotics automotive audio intercom/DSP.
• Experience in modern C and familiarity with design patterns.
• Experience in developing for embedded Linux and/or QNX at multiple levels such as hardware bringup drivers application.
• Experience in software support for custom hardware development including diagnostic tests utilities and poweron selftests.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python JavaScript Matlab etc. for diagnostic/test automation.
• Comfort with concepts of design input design output traceability and risk analysis.
• Demonstrated experience and comfort with all phases of the product development lifecycle (design implementation debug verification validation and transfer to manufacturing).
• Experience with designing software products in an FDA or other regulated industry or for mission critical applications.

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 COVID19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.

EEO and AA Policy

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside or plan to reside in Alabama Arkansas Delaware Florida Indiana Iowa Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina or Tennessee.

We provide marketcompetitive 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 salary ranges are listed.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime