Staff Software Engineer - Medical Imaging

Intuitive Surgical6 months ago
San Francisco, CA, United States
Hybrid
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

This role will be part of Intuitive Future Forward team that aims to improve surgical outcomes and efficiency by innovating in computer graphics, interaction engineering, and embedded system software development. We work to empower the surgeon by extracting new information from the surgical scene, presenting it with meaningful visualization, and synthesizing it in a way that supports surgical decision making. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in the embedded systems software engineering, 3D and 2D graphics, and interactive application development with a focus on developing algorithms for multi-modal medical imaging applications.

As a member of the Intuitive Future Forward team, you will collaborate and contribute to the conceptualization, design, implementation, and evaluation of new digital interfaces to support a novel robotic system. You will contribute across the entire development cycle, taking concepts from initial prototypes to production software.

In this role, you will design and implement a variety of software components and will take on projects with broad technical scope, generating delightful digital interfaces inclusive of 2D and 3D content. The ideal candidate is an independent and fast-paced developer with excellent problem-solving skills, who can translate rough and approximate requirements into working prototypes, so to arrive at high quality, complete solutions through methodical iterations.

Quick learning and a desire to understand requirements from an engineering and user perspective are essential to becoming a valuable contributor. A strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required.

Essential Job Duties

  • Contribute to the development of world-class intraoperative navigation and guidance systems of our next generation robotic software platform using Qt/QML and other tools in an embedded C/C++ environment to support surgeons in the use of a novel robotic system.
  • Collaborate closely with designers, clinical engineers, human factors, and other software developers to integrate simple and elegant interfaces into user-friendly applications.
  • Work with other engineering team members to define the architecture and select tools used for system graphical interfaces.
  • Participate in failure mode analysis, to identify and implement robust hazard mitigation strategies.
  • Refine prototypes to production-quality software through rapid iterations.

Required Skills

Algorithm development for medical imaging
Collaborative software development
User interface design
Embedded C/C++ development
Qt/QML framework
3D and 2D graphics
Interactive application development
Prototyping and rapid iteration