Intuitive Surgical

Job Description

Reporting to the Manager of FPGA – Imaging, this Engineer will play a role in delivering best-in-class image/video processing solutions for our da Vinci systems (and other robotic platforms), as part of an excellent cross-functional team. The engineer in this position will work with the broader Vision and EE teams to architect, implement and verify image sensor interfaces and image processing algorithms on FPGAs / FPGA SoCs deployed on the platform. This includes components in the entire processing chain, photon-to-photon: from image sensor data acquisition to stereo (and mono) displays.

The ideal candidate will possess a background in FPGA-based video/image processing with exposure to typical image processing algorithms and image sensor interfaces – implementation and evaluation with the trade-offs between visual quality, performance, and FPGA resource utilization in mind.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement high-performance image/video processing pipelines in FPGAs
• Collaborate with other experts in imaging to craft the best trade-offs in resources, cost, performance, and practicality to create optimal video processing architectures
• Work with other contributors in the FPGA space to harmonize the video processing implementation with established best practices
• Implement designs using (System)Verilog and C/C++ (High Level Synthesis)
• Verify implemented designs in simulation and on hardware
• Collaborate on improvements to FPGA design and verification methodology; investigate new technologies that would reduce development / verification time
• Explore and evaluate new FPGA / FPGA-SoC platforms for low-latency video processing