Software Engineer, Agentic AI

Intuitive • Sunnyvale, CA

15h

About The Position

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. The Future Forward organization is Intuitive's advanced concepts group. We explore emerging technologies, prototype next-generation solutions, and build software experiences that shape the future of robotic-assisted surgery. Primary Function of Position The Software Engineer, Agentic AI is a balanced full-stack engineering role focused on building end-to-end agentic AI systems. This role spans backend services, agent orchestration, data and retrieval pipelines, and user-facing applications that make AI-driven decisions transparent, safe, and actionable. In this role, you will work closely with senior engineers and cross-functional partners to rapidly prototype new ideas, iterate based on feedback, and help mature successful concepts into reliable, scalable software.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience, including work in R&D or early-stage product environments.
• Experience delivering balanced full-stack features spanning backend services, APIs, and user-facing applications.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language/runtime such as Python or Node.js.
• Working experience with modern web technologies such as JavaScript/TypeScript and React or similar frameworks.
• Experience integrating AI or data-driven systems into products, including asynchronous workflows and streaming responses.
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working in ambiguous, fast- moving environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or integrating agentic AI systems, tool-using agents, or retrieval-augmented generation.
• Familiarity with role-based access control, permissioned systems, or multi-tenant architectures.
• Experience with data ingestion pipelines and handling multiple content types such as documents, images, or audio.
• Background in healthcare, robotics, or other complex or regulated technical domains.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production operations

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agentic AI workflows, including multi-step reasoning, tool usage, retrieval, and structured outputs.
• Build and maintain backend services and APIs that support agent execution, session management, and workflow orchestration.
• Develop data ingestion and retrieval pipelines to ground agent behavior in enterprise data and documents.
• Contribute to user-facing applications that present agent outputs clearly, including streaming responses, evidence, and status.
• Implement role-based access control and persona-aware behaviors across services and user interfaces.
• Add observability, logging, and evaluation hooks to improve reliability, debuggability, and quality of agent behavior.
• Collaborate with AI/ML, robotics, product, and design partners to translate ambiguous concepts into working systems.
• Participate in regular release cycles, bug fixes, and iterative improvements across the stack.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level