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Job Description
Primary Function of Position
The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will work with a group of talented and dedicated people to improve and extend Intuitives surgical robotic product lines. The successful candidate will contribute to the Product Engineering Software Engineering Group with focused contribution on embedded software for da Vinci Surgical System products. As a member of the team you will be a hands-on engineer working shoulder to shoulder with the team developing software on state-of-the-art SOMs and SoCs deeply embedded in the robotic system. You will be involved in delivering features to the surgical customer by integrating complex functionality into complete surgical robot solutions and seeing these through to product release as well as resolving issues after release if necessary. The successful candidate must excel in a high-energy small focused team environment be able to drive to solutions from rough requirements and have a commitment to high product quality. Quick learning and a desire to understand requirements and create solutions are essential to becoming a valuable integrator and system developer. A strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required as is the ability to make work fun and interesting. Supporting you will be a development and management team that knows and cares about what you are doing and wants you to succeed.
Essential Job Duties
- Own design and development of Linux distributions and kernels and build them using Yocto Bitbake and supporting scripts.
- Integrate vendor-provided pre-build bootloader and kernel binaries into the software development workflow.
- Profile operating systems for performance issues and drive optimizations to resolve them.
- Integrate new releases of Yocto SDKs and toolchains into the customized Linux build process.
- Design build scripts to support cybersecurity encryption and signing of embedded software.
- Bring up powerful multicore ARM-based SOMs and hundreds of GPU cores enabling video Machine Learning AI and other applications to facilitate surgical robotic applications.
- Contribute to the development of software risks hazards mitigations requirements specifications designs reliability modularity extensibility and verification & validation.
- Ability and desire to read and understand a codebase that includes low-level and multi-processing heterogeneous networked processors.
- Develop new features and investigate and resolve design issues.
- Collaborate with other engineering disciplines and groups.
- Support field service and manufacturing organizations.
- Coaching & mentoring.
Qualifications :
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience customizing Linux packages using Yocto Bitbake and/or OpenEmbedded.
- Experience with build systems such as cmake bazel and/or makefile.
- Experience with secure boot encrypted filesystems and TPM.
- Experience contributing to Linux kernel development or other open-source software is a plus.
- Experience developing embedded software in C and modern C and familiarity with design patterns.
- Experience with Matlab Python Bash and/or other scripting languages.
- Experience developing cross-platform software.
- Experience with bare metal real-time operating systems and multithreaded programming.
- Experience in low level driver development in embedded platforms.
- Experience working with circuit board schematics and component data sheets.
- Excellent debugging skill and strong ability to root cause and isolate system issues.
- Experience in all phases of software development including evaluation planning and definition design & implementation Verification & Validation Market Launch and Post Market.
- Experience in working and supporting manufacturing organizations.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships across supported organizations.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Required Education and Training
- Bachelor/Master/PhD degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience.
- 8 years industry experience in developing and supporting embedded systems.
Working Conditions
- None
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience designing software products in an FDA or other regulated industry.
- Experience with hardware design.
- Experience with Verilog/VHDL to read and understand designs.
Additional Information :
Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.
Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.
Mandatory Notices
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside or plan to reside in Alabama Arkansas Delaware Florida Indiana Iowa Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina or Tennessee.
We provide market-competitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives benefits and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role as actual pay will be determined based on several factors including experience skills and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
