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

The IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) & Data Platform team within Intuitive has an immediate opening in Sunnyvale, CA, for a Sr Software Engineer - Embedded Data Platform focusing on taking our robotic data streaming platforms to the next level of IoT ubiquity. A successful candidate will excel in a high-energy focused team environment, must have excellent communication skills, and must be able to balance autonomous production of results with the need to collaborate during planning, development, integration, and evaluation of research concepts and minimum viable products. The ability to learn existing systems rapidly and drive to creative, yet practical, solutions from rough requirements are essential in this position.

Essential Job Duties

• Partner with the senior members of the streaming and tools team to build embedded data aggregation and streaming capabilities that supports data processing pipelines
• Partner with our simulation, software, robotics, and data teams to ensure that the solution you build can encompass all their needs and make this solution the gold standard for data streaming at Intuitive Surgical.
• Your will provide access to system data in real-time even when a procedure is in progress with no impact on system performance and surgical procedures
• Your work will be integrated into and supported on all intuitive products.
• You will standardize communication ports, tools, protocols, API for data serialization/de-serialization, authentication, encryption/decryption, parsers etc.
• Your system will have good forward and backward compatibility and ensure robust cross-product testing and validation through deep integration into our CI/CD systems.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• At least 4+ years of software development experience. You ideally have a minimum of a bachelor's or postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Math, or Engineering, but we will consider equivalent industry experience as well.
• Proven experience in building distributed embedded applications
• Exceptional experience building flexible reusable system API's for robotic, IoT, or large scale distributed systems.
• Solid in C++ and Python

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with medical device software development life cycle: comfortable with concepts such as design input, design output, traceability, and risk analysis.
• Experience implementing pub/sub and streaming designs. Our systems currently use a combination of Grpc, Kafka, ZeroMQ, and Crossbar
• Experience with various data serialization libraries and techniques.

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 COVID-19. Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity 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.

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

We provide market-competitive 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.

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 COVID-19. 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 market-competitive 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.