Job Description
Primary Function of Position
Our Servo Frameworks and Simulator 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 software includes robotics frameworks, infrastructure for motion control algorithms, audio intercom and system sounds, data streaming and logging, and platform support for our next-generation da Vinci™ product line. Our team occupies an exciting intersection of real-time architecture, feature development, and demonstration of product safety and reliability.
The successful candidate must excel in a 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.
- Lead efforts to modularize and unify robotics software frameworks across multiple platforms and product lines.
- Leverage systems software building blocks to provide software functionality for multiple Intuitive Surgical robotic systems, maximizing flexibility and modularity while maintaining peak performance.
- Analyze and quantify overall system performance and safety, including verification of adherence to specifications as well as identification of improvement opportunities.
- Extend existing tools and create new tools to support such analysis efforts.
- Interface and collaborate effectively and respectfully with other teams, including Platform Software, Hardware, System Analysis, System Test, User Interface Software Engineering, Manufacturing and Clinical Engineering.
- Participate in product risk analysis, defining requirements, implementing mitigations, and drafting and executing verification tests.
- Contribute to multiple areas of software development, including but not limited to the following:
- design and development of robotic frameworks and middleware
- configuration and monitoring of custom motion control hardware.
- real-time processing performance analysis.
- extension of current processing frameworks to new processors and hardware designs.
- design, development, and extension of offline hardware simulation environments to facilitate rapid software development and testing.
- bring-up of research prototypes used to evaluate new product concepts.
- design and development of hardware / software diagnostic tools.
- apply appropriate inter-thread or process communication software design principles.
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