Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Audio - Intuitive (Intuitive Surgical)

• Sunnyvale, CA, United States
• Not Remote
• Engineering
• JOB213916

Company Description

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive . As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care , our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion —have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare , you’ll find your purpose here.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

Our Audio Software team is responsible for the real-time software infrastructure that support critical performance, safety and user-facing features of the da Vinci™ Surgical System, Intuitive’s flagship product. Our real-time software includes infrastructure for audio intercom and system sounds, data streaming and logging, and platform support for our next-generation da Vinci™ product line.

The successful candidate must excel in a focused, small-team and cross-functional 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 C++ in an embedded environment is required.

Essential Job Duties

• Design and develop product-focused, robust, efficient, and elegant C++ software in a heterogeneous, multi-processor real-time-embedded environment.
• Extend embedded audio software architecture to enable or improve user-facing audio features along with system audio, audio data pipelines and processing.
• Contribute to the design, extension, and testing of our audio and system events streaming software that serve as the communication mechanism for the system sounds and for communication between Surgeon and OR staff.
• 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.