- Robot type
- Surgical and Medical
- Location
- SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Sep 17, 2026
Senior Software Engineer - UI Software Architecture & Display Systems
Job description
At Intuitive Surgical, we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. By combining ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints. As the company’s flagship product, the da Vinci Surgical System advances the frontier of human-machine interaction by fusing computers, robotics and imaging technologies into an immersive teleoperation platform for minimally invasive surgery.
The Interaction Software Engineering team is responsible for implementing the 2D/3D user interfaces and supporting infrastructure for various displays across the da Vinci Surgical System, including an immersive stereoscopic viewer, 2D/3D flat panel…
Job responsibilities
- Work with a cross-functional team in a user-centered design process to arrive at a balanced understanding of unmet user needs and feasibility of technical solutions.
- Translate high-level requirements into software architecture and algorithm designs.
- Produce and maintain robust, high-quality software implementations: Design and develop UI software architecture with an emphasis on modularity, reusability, and scalability across multiple products in the da Vinci…
- Lead efforts to refactor existing codebases to improve code reuse, reduce duplication, and enable shared components across product variants: Partition and structure code to support targeted unit test development and…
- Support performance profiling and optimization of the interactive video/display subsystem, spanning rendering, compositing, and video streaming pipelines.
- Participate in software/hardware failure mode analysis. Identify and implement robust hazard mitigation strategies.
Job requirements
- Minimum of 8 years relevant industry experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years of experience and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience
- Experience developing and supporting products with interactive UI software, display pipelines, or video/image processing systems
- Mastery of C/C++ programming
- Demonstrated experience in all phases of the product development lifecycle including design, implementation, stabilization, verification, and maintenance
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining core software infrastructure with a focus on modularity and reusability
- Proven ability to write well-structured, testable code, including partitioning software for unit testing and automated verification
- Experience working in large software codebases
- Experience with Linux software development
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