Senior Software Engineer in Test

Intuitive • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive . As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care , our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion —have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide. We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world. The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life. If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare , you’ll find your purpose here. Job Description Primary Function of Position Responsible for software testing of Intuitive’s new robotic platform. The successful candidate is an individual with high energy, ownership, integrity, and accountability that will develop software to support software verification and develop/execute test protocols for robotic surgical systems. Essential Job Duties As a Software Engineer in Test in the intuitive team, you will be responsible for:

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience working with embedded systems and electromechanical systems
• Strong experience with Python is required
• Troubleshooting mindset, an ability to break down a system or process systematically and effectively into subparts to identify failure mechanisms
• Excellent documentation skills and ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization with high attention to detail
• Passionate and committed to the highest product quality.
• Proven ability to proactively engage with the unknown/unfamiliar, learn how things work and apply that learning to new challenges
• BS or above in Computer Science and Engineering or related fields

Nice To Haves

• Strong working experience with C/C++
• Experience with Machine Learning Techniques
• Experience with Matlab
• Experience with Linux environments

Responsibilities

• Develop software tests and scripts that automate testing processes
• Contribute to Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline development and workflow enhancement
• Contribute to project content and overall test plan oversight, including definition of test coverage requirements, test plan generation, approval, execution, and archival of results
• Analyze test data, identify non-conformance trends, generate dashboards to represent concise executive summaries, and recommend design improvements
• Contribute to the strategy for reliability assessment and verification of robotic surgical systems and instruments
• Log issues found within the issue tracking system; work with software and cross-functional teams to debug

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees