Embedded 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:

Contribute broadly to the Servo and Audio Software Engineering Group, which is responsible for the real-time software infrastructure and supervisory state machines at the heart of the da Vinci™ Surgical System.

The successful candidate must excel in a high-energy, focused, small-team environment, be able to drive to solutions from rough requirements, and have a commitment to high product quality. 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 preferred.

As a member of the Servo/Audio software team, immediate responsibilities may include:

• Extend audio software architecture to enable or improve user-facing audio features.
• Leverage control-systems software building blocks to provide servo functionality for multiple Intuitive Surgical robotic systems, maximizing flexibility and modularity while maintaining peak performance.
• Design and develop product-focused, robust, efficient and elegant C/C++ software in a heterogeneous, multi-processor SoC/FPGA/real-time-embedded 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.

Additional team responsibilities include:

• Contribute to the design, development, and verification of embedded software for da Vinci™ Surgical System products.
• Develop and test the supervisory state machines that serve as the system’s top-level 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 system-level knowledge from a clinical user perspective.
• Work on a cross-functional team at multiple levels; understand needs and requests and weigh them against safety risks, technical constraints, and competing priorities.
• Consider and apply appropriate inter-process communication software design principles.
• Contribute to multiple areas of software development, including but not limited to the following:
  • configuration and monitoring of custom motion control hardware
  • real-time 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
  • bring-up of research prototypes used to evaluate new product concepts
  • design and development of hardware / software diagnostic tools
• Contribute to embedded software in support of the da Vinci™ simulator product family.
• Help perform formal risk analysis and develop software mitigations.
• Document software designs according to Intuitive's development guidelines.

Qualifications

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Competency Requirements: (Competency is based on education, training, skills and experience.)

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