Senior Software Engineer - UI Software Architecture & Display Systems

Intuitive•Sunnyvale, CA

1d•$156,800 - $265,500•Onsite

About The Position

The Interaction Software Engineering team is responsible for implementing the 2D/3D user interfaces and supporting infrastructure for various displays across the da Vinci Surgical System, including an immersive stereoscopic viewer, 2D/3D flat panel displays, and touch panels. The team prides itself in creating quality products that make the customers’ experience of using technically complex surgical devices safe, easy to learn, and confidence inspiring. The Sr. Software Engineer within this organization works collaboratively across both software and hardware teams to design and develop infrastructure and user-facing features. The successful candidate must excel in a focused, high-energy, small team environment, be able to drive to solutions from high-level requirements, and have a commitment to high product quality. An ideal candidate is an independent and fast-paced developer with excellent hands-on problem-solving skills, and open to incorporating new learnings & ideas in an iterative and collaborative design process.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years relevant industry experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years of experience and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience
Experience developing and supporting products with interactive UI software, display pipelines, or video/image processing systems
Mastery of C/C++ programming
Demonstrated experience in all phases of the product development lifecycle including design, implementation, stabilization, verification, and maintenance
Experience designing, developing, and maintaining core software infrastructure with a focus on modularity and reusability
Proven ability to write well-structured, testable code, including partitioning software for unit testing and automated verification
Experience working in large software codebases
Experience with Linux software development
Comfortable working at multiple levels of an integrated hardware/software stack (e.g., device drivers, register-level interfaces)
Excellent communication and documentation skills
Passionate about delivering a quality product for the best possible user experience

Nice To Haves

Experience with GUI programming in Qt
Experience with performance profiling tools and optimization techniques for display/video subsystems
Experience with the Nvidia Jetson platform and Jetpack SDK
Experience with real-time 3D graphics rendering in OpenGL using GLSL shaders
Experience with GStreamer plugins and pipelines for real-time video streaming
Experience with CUDA and GPGPU techniques
Experience with natural user interface technologies such as 3D input devices, haptic devices, eye-tracking, or speech recognition

Responsibilities

Work with a cross-functional team in a user-centered design process to arrive at a balanced understanding of unmet user needs and feasibility of technical solutions.
Translate high-level requirements into software architecture and algorithm designs.
Produce and maintain robust, high-quality software implementations: Design and develop UI software architecture with an emphasis on modularity, reusability, and scalability across multiple products in the da Vinci product line.
Lead efforts to refactor existing codebases to improve code reuse, reduce duplication, and enable shared components across product variants: Partition and structure code to support targeted unit test development and automated verification testing, in alignment with product quality and regulatory requirements.
Support performance profiling and optimization of the interactive video/display subsystem, spanning rendering, compositing, and video streaming pipelines. Contribute to 2D/3D UI rendering, including display pipeline development for compositing and overlay rendering.
Participate in software/hardware failure mode analysis. Identify and implement robust hazard mitigation strategies.