Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare’s hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere—we strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect.We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as theirmost authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture—our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together,let’s advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare’s hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere—we strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture—our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let’s advance the world of minimally invasive care.

The Core Technologies Engineering (CTE) group within Intuitive has an immediate opening in Sunnyvale, CA, for a senior software engineer focusing on taking our robotic data streaming platforms to the next level of IoT ubiquity.

A successful candidate must excel in a high-energy focused team environment, must have excellent communication skills, and must be able to balance independent production of results with the need to collaborate during planning, development, integration, and evaluation of research concepts and minimum viable products. The ability to learn existing systems rapidly and drive to creative—yet practical—solutions from rough requirements are essential in this position.

Core Responsibilities:

• Partner with the senior members of the streaming and tools team to take ownership of the existing client libraries that support our existing user base of external research partners and internal customers.
• Envision and implement the future client interfaces to the robot’s streaming data and build a client side eco-system of microservices and processing pipelines to enable local/offline workflows as well as off-loading into our larger cloud based data pipeline
• Partner with our simulation, software, robotics, and data teams to ensure that the solution you build can encompass all of their needs and make this solution the gold standard for data streaming at Intuitive Surgical.
• Your product will be integrated into and supported on all intuitive products (Xi, X, SP, Ion, and all future products).
• You will standardize communication ports, tools, protocols, API for data serialization/de-serialization, authentication, encryption/decryption, parsers etc.
• Your client interfaces will provide access to system data in real-time even when a procedure is in progress with no impact on system performance and surgical procedures
• Your system will have good forward and backward compatibility and ensure robust cross-product testing and validation through deep integration into our CI/CD systems.
• You will partner with other teams to help them build bespoke client applications for different groups inside and outside the company. The applications will range from customer-facing, internal/external research projects, engineering data logging, and 3rd party companies.

Qualifications

Experience:

• Minimum 7+ years of software development experience.
• Minimum bachelor’s or post-graduate degree in Computer Science, Math, or Engineering, but we will consider equivalent industry experience as well.
• You have strong experience building flexible re-usable system API's for robotic, IoT, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Comfortable and capable in C++ and Python, some JavaScript/Node.js experience would also be great but is not required.
• Experience building microservices using Python and FastAPI
• Familiarity and experience with various data serialization libraries and techniques. We use Protobuf in most places but are interested with your experience in GRPC, Thrift, Cap'n Proto, Avro, Parquet or MessagePack
• Experience deploying microservices using Docker / Docker Compose to production environments
• Experience implementing various pub/sub and streaming designs using message queues. Our systems currently use a combination of Kafka, ZeroMQ, TCP, UDP, websockets and Crossbar, but we're looking for people comfortable with any or all of: RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MQTT.
• Expertise in asynchronous programming, coroutines and asynchronous I/O frameworks (asyncio, twisted, autobahn).

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 Employment 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.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

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 Employment 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.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

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