Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Advanced Energy

Intuitive•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

This role involves leading a team of engineers in the definition, development, and launch of new products within Intuitive Surgical's advanced energy portfolio. The successful candidate will work across multiple generations of robotic platforms in a high-energy, focused team environment. They must be adept at driving solutions from rough requirements through iterative prototyping, with a strong commitment to patient safety and high product quality. Quick learning, a user-centric and engineering perspective, and a sense of shared responsibility are essential. The role offers support from a dedicated development and management team.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of embedded software or related experience.
BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
3-5 years management experience.
Extensive experience with developing 62304 compliant software, including creating, presenting, and refining software documentation and design controls.
In-depth experience working with embedded systems and safety-critical, complex embedded systems, including failure mode and risk analysis.
Extensive experience planning and executing complex software deliverables on tight deadline and with interdependencies with hardware development.
Experience in all phases of the product development lifecycle including design, implementation, debug, verification, validation, and transfer to manufacturing.
Working knowledge of version control systems such as Git and experience with defining and executing software release processes.
Experience recruiting, mentoring, and functionally managing teams of highly skilled engineers.
A real excitement to learn and to get to the bottom of tough technical problems, and to help patient’s lives.

Responsibilities

Own the complete medical device software lifecycle for several products, covering requirement definition, systematic risk assessment, prototyping, development, testing, and release per relevant internal procedures & external regulations.
Lead team of firmware and software engineers through the development lifecycle of multiple products.
Drive efforts to improve and establish new processes for software development (e.g., code reviews, scrums, bug scrubbing meetings, coding conventions, continuous integration, defensive programming, static analysis, design patterns).
Drive technical development across a variety of areas such as board bring up, platform development, controls algorithms, OS management, cybersecurity, and safety software.
Interface with a multitude of technical and product teams, understanding embedded software needs in order to create, maintain, and track a bottom-up schedule that best support top-down goals.