Senior Software Engineer

Intuitive•Blacksburg, VA

About The Position

Primary Function of Position The successful candidate will design, implement, debug and verify embedded and PC software for new robotic surgical platforms. The engineer must excel in a high-energy, focused, small-team environment, be able to drive to solutions from rough requirements, and have a commitment to high product quality.

Requirements

Hands-on engineering experience with proven ability to work well in a team environment
Strong ability to isolate and debug hardware and software problems
Experience in low level driver development in embedded platforms
Experience with bare metal, real-time operating systems, and multithreaded programming
A passion for creating robust and reliable products
Excellent written and oral communications skills
Experience in C/C++ programming
Experience with Matlab, Python, or other scripting languages
Experience developing on the Linux operating system
Experience with revision control systems such as SVN and Git
Minimum BS degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or Computer Engineering, or similar field relating to robotics or electro-mechanical systems
Minimum 8 years of development experience in software engineering, test engineering, diagnostics software, or embedded software development

Nice To Haves

Experience with NI LabView
Experience with Yocto or other custom Linux kernel build systems
Experience with Bazel / nix build infrastructure
Experience with CUDA GPU programming

Responsibilities

Develop embedded software primarily in C/C++
Contribute to the development of software risks, hazards, mitigations, requirements, specifications, designs, reliability, modularity, extensibility, and verification & validation
Support field service and manufacturing organizations
Develop supporting PC applications for an embedded system
Contribute to multiple areas of software development, including but not limited to the following:
Sensor and/or control signal processing
Inter-processor communication subsystem development
Embedded Linux setup and configuration
Support root cause analysis and issue resolution for released products and products in production
System diagnostic and service application development on Windows PCs
Development of research prototypes used to evaluate new product concepts
Perform formal risk analysis and develop and verify software mitigations
Document according to Intuitive's development guidelines
Be a resource for all other software engineers on the team; teach and guide engineers through their work