Job Description
Primary Function of Position
As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer, you will collaborate with a talented team to advance Intuitive's robotic product lines.
Your role will focus on embedded and platform software, impacting firmware, user interface, and test infrastructure. You will contribute to the design, implementation, and integration of complex functionalities into complete surgical robot solutions, ensuring product release and human use.
Success in this role requires excelling in a dynamic small team environment, driving solutions from rough requirements through methodical prototype iterations, and maintaining a high commitment to product quality with a patient-first approach.
Essential Job Duties
- Engage in cross-functional requirements discussions, addressing clinical needs and safety requirements.
- Translate early requirements into prototype implementations for evaluating novel robotic systems.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to define overall system architecture, selecting hardware components and specifying interfaces across various compute nodes, with emphasis on timing requirements, inter-processor communication, and product life cycle.
- Contribute to hazard and failure mode analysis, defining appropriate mitigations.
- Refine and iterate designs to meet requirements while balancing feasibility, schedule, and resources.
- Develop and document software modules in areas of servo control, hardware monitoring, high speed communication, conducting unit tests before system integration and human use.
- Produce supporting documentation in compliance with Intuitive's development and documentation guidelines.
- Ensure medical device designs meet quality and safety requirements per the Quality Management System.
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