Description:

Joining Intuitive Surgical means joining a team dedicated to using technology to benefit patients by improving surgical efficacy and decreasing surgical invasiveness, with patient safety as our highest priority.

Primary Function of Position: The person in this position will play a lead technical role in the development of new surgical systems. The engineer will be expected to work with a team to develop customer-facing surgical planning software. Successful candidates will have significant experience in GUI development, medical image manipulation and visualization, 3D graphics, and robotics.

Roles and Responsibilities:

This position has responsibility and authority for:

• Work on a cross-functional team to develop technical specifications and evaluate design trade-offs
• Generate ground-breaking new design solutions based upon these specifications
• Prototype new designs, test, iterate with user feedback, and deliver production-ready code
• Manage and integrate third-party APIs
• Generate formal design documentation
• Document, prepare, and review patent applications
• Some project planning and vendor management, including some travel

Qualifications

Skill/Job Requirements:

• A passion for developing technologies
• MS or PhD in CS, EE, or related fields
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Extensive experience with OOP design, data structures, design patterns, and advanced algorithms
• Proficient with C++ and supporting software tools
• Extensive experience building customer-facing interactive GUIs
• Extensive experience building 3D Virtual Environment using OpenGL and other rendering tools
• Experience with medical image software infrastructure, I/O, manipulation, and visualization
• Demonstrated superb problem solving abilities in complex systems
• Experience with QT is a strong plus
• Knowledge and experience with medical image registration and segmentation algorithms is a strong plus
• Experience with software development process in a regulated environment is a plus
• 3+ years industrial experience in software development is a plus

We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer.

Interested applicants should send email to tao.zhao@intusurg.com