Intuitive Surgical

Job Description

The Embedded Platform Software team designs and builds the foundational software infrastructure for next-generation surgical robotic systems. We are looking for a high-energy, talented Senior Software Engineer to join the Embedded Networking Software team, within the Multiport Platform Software group.

We are a small group that works in a focused, high-energy environment working on New Product Development. We believe in applying first principles thinking, data driven decision making, continuous learning, and systematic planning to deliver results and achieve our goals.

• Are you passionate about technology?
• Do you want to have a direct impact on helping people live better lives?
• Are you interested in the medical applications of robotics?
• Do you like to build complex distributed systems?
• Does working in a multidisciplinary, systems-oriented design team sound exciting?

Your Role

You will be joining the team responsible for developing our flagship product, dV5. The team's focus is to enhance and extend the dV5 embedded network, across all 7 Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) layers, and apply the resulting deep understanding to new surgical robotic systems. You will have the opportunity and responsibility to drive end-to-end feature development, from concept to cross functional requirements gathering, to implementation, test, and verification.

Your Responsibilities

In your first year in this role, you will:

• Design, develop, and deliver features across the embedded network stack, including:
• Reliability enhancements across the network stack, such as redundancy and fault tolerance mechanisms
• Performance enhancements to meet growing data transfer needs, including low latency switching, traffic shaping, and queue management
• A distributed publish/subscribe messaging framework built on DDS-style middleware
• Layer 5 Session APIs to facilitate seamless disconnect and reconnect of services and network nodes
• Develop and optimize Layer 2 and Layer 3 software, including network configuration, low level Ethernet MAC and PHY drivers
• Build and tune deterministic, real-time communication paths for safety critical data, applying queueing theory and a working understanding of PCIe features and limitations
• Lead board bring-up activities and interface with hardware teams to validate and integrate new networking product designs, including signal integrity and system level validation
• Debug complex hardware-software networking issues using JTAG, GDB, and protocol analyzers; triage race conditions and timing violations
• Partner with Field Service Engineering and the Platform team to triage, root cause, and resolve field reported networking issues, and feed learnings back into product design
• Interface with a variety of cross functional teams such as Application Development, Algorithms, FPGA, Electrical, Clinical, Interaction Design, and Manufacturing to negotiate requirements, build solutions and iterate.