Staff Interaction Software Engineer

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: 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.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

This role will be part of Intuitive Future Forward team that aims to improve surgical outcomes and efficiency by innovating in computer graphics, interaction engineering, and embedded system software development. We work to empower the surgeon by extracting new information from the surgical scene, presenting it with meaningful visualization, and synthesizing it in a way that supports surgical decision making. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in 3D and 2D graphics, interactive application development, and embedded software engineering with a focus on developing algorithms for multi-modal medical imaging applications.

As a member of the Intuitive Future Forward team, you will collaborate and contribute to the conceptualization, design, implementation, and evaluation of new digital interfaces to support a novel robotic system. You will contribute across the entire development cycle, taking concepts from initial prototypes to production software.

In this role, you will design and implement a variety of software components and will take on projects with broad technical scope, generating delightful digital interfaces inclusive of 2D and 3D content. The ideal candidate is an independent and fast-paced developer with excellent problem-solving skills, who can translate rough and approximate requirements into working prototypes, so to arrive at high quality, complete solutions through methodical iterations.

Quick learning and a desire to understand requirements from an engineering and user perspective are essential to becoming a valuable contributor. A strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required.

Essential Job Duties

• Contribute to the development of world-class intraoperative navigation and guidance systems of our next generation robotic software platform using Qt/QML and other tools in an embedded C/C++ environment to support surgeons in the use of a novel robotic system.      
   
• Collaborate closely with designers, clinical engineers, human factors, and other software developers to integrate simple and elegant interfaces into user-friendly applications.
   
• Work with other engineering team members to define the architecture and select tools used for system graphical interfaces.
   
• Participate in failure mode analysis, to identify and implement robust hazard mitigation strategies.
   
• Refine prototypes to production-quality software through rapid iterations.

Qualifications

Required Education, Skills & Experience

• Minimum Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in software, Electrical or Computer Engineering preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience developing interactive computer graphics or vision-based applications
• Demonstrated experience across phases of the product lifecycle, including    design, implementation, debug, verification, and maintenance
• Fluent in object-oriented programming using C/C++
• Experience with 3D Graphics and GUI development frameworks (e.g. Qt)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to convey technical content to a broader audience

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience with Qt and/or QML
• Experience with 3D graphics frameworks (Qt3D, OpenGL, Vulka