Primary Function of Position
The Servo Software team is responsible for the real-time software infrastructure that supports critical performance, safety, and user-facing features of the da Vinci™ Surgical System, Intuitive’s flagship product. Our real-time, embedded software enables motion control, audio, supervisory mode control, and data generation and streaming. Additionally, our team provides platform support for the da Vinci™ Simulator product line. Because our workstreams depend upon and enable the work of several other teams, we occupy an exciting intersection of real-time architecture, feature development, and demonstration of product safety and reliability.
The successful candidate must excel in a high-energy, focused, and cross-functional environment. They must be effective in leading a team to drive to solutions from rough requirements and maintain 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.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical vision and leadership for the Servo Software organization, which comprises the following areas: servo infrastructure, audio, data streaming, supervisor, tool manager, and simulator.
- Maintain a high standard for product-focused software architecture to provide robust, efficient, and elegant C++ software in a heterogeneous, multi-processor multi-core SoC/FPGA/real-time-embedded environment.
- Coordinate and deliver on simultaneous team efforts: performing safety/risk analysis, translating risk mitigations to system software requirements, ensuring software implementation satisfies requirements, gathering and analyzing data to quantify system performance and reliability, preparing for and conducting design reviews, and completing verification testing and reporting.
- Interface and collaborate effectively and respectfully with other teams to drive critical technical initiatives. Teams include Platform Software, Electrical Engineering and FPGA Design, Mechanical Engineering, System Analysis, System Test, User Interface Software, Vision Software, Manufacturing, and Clinical Engineering.
- Facilitate sharing of software building blocks to provide servo functionality for multiple Intuitive Surgical robotic systems, maximizing flexibility and modularity while maintaining peak performance.
- Develop a thorough system-level knowledge from a clinical user perspective.
- Coordinate a broad multi-team collaborative effort in support of the da Vinci™ simulator product family.
- Facilitate audio software architecture enhancements to enable or improve user-facing audio features.
- Oversee the design, extension, and testing of our supervisory state machine software that serves as the system’s top-level behavioral command control center.
Required Education and Training
- Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree (Master's or PhD degree preferred).
- Minimum of 10 years (cumulative) industry and/or academic research/project-based experience in developing embedded systems.
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience leading a software engineering team working on embedded, real-time application development and testing.
- Experience in developing real-time embedded software for one or more of the following areas (or similar): motion-control, robotics, automotive, aerospace/aviation.
- Experience in modern C++.
- Experience in developing for embedded Linux and/or QNX at multiple levels, such as hardware bring-up, drivers, applications.
- Proficiency in written and verbal communication.
- Comfort with presenting to large or small groups.
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 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.
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.
