About the position
The Core Technologies Engineering (CTE) group within Intuitive has an immediate opening in Sunnyvale, CA for a software engineer with a focus on the internal da Vinci emulator. You will be on a small team responsible for building, deploying, and supporting our full-system emulator and hybrid hardware-in-the-loop setups. A successful candidate must excel in a high-energy focused team environment and must balance delivery of new features, supporting existing features, and tracking system changes. An excellent candidate can rapidly learn the large complex and continually evolving systems, through establishing working relationships with multiple engineers in multiple departments and direct experimentation with the existing system. A deep sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required, as is the ability to make work fun and interesting.
Responsibilities
- Expand the functionality of the internal da Vinci emulator by faithfully emulating microcontrollers, sensors, FPGAs, and physics models.
- Learn and explore the continuously evolving da Vinci system software and firmware.
- Explore creative ways to faithfully emulate da Vinci hardware.
- Advocate for hardware 'simulation first' that educates developers on the productivity benefits of using the emulator.
- Continuously follow up with developers to support feature requests, bug fixes, and system integration.
Requirements
- 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years experience with a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience.
- Extensive experience understanding and debugging complex systems.
- Excellent knowledge of Software Engineering and Computer Science fundamentals.
- Experience using C/C++ and Python.
- Proficient communication skills and the ability to collaborate with a diverse range of talented engineers.
Nice-to-haves
- Some experience with Linux process management, signals, and interprocess communication.
- Working knowledge of or willingness to learn microcontrollers, embedded software for memory-mapped I/O, and assembly code.
- Some experience with Docker and Git.
