Staff Software Engineer
It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here. Primary Function of Position As a Staff Software Engineer reporting to the Managing Staff Software Engineer in the MP Platform Engineering group, you will be the technical leader responsible for the architecture and implementation of mixed-criticality embedded virtualization. You’ll define how a next-generation surgical robotic system safely consolidates critical/real-time and non-critical software onto shared hardware. You will own the key elements of the virtualization safety strategy: partitioning architecture, hypervisor configuration, silicon and platform software tuning for freedom from interference.Beyond virtualization, you will leverage your broad expertise and unique technical knowledge to contribute to company objectives, lead cross-functional projects from concept through completion, and coach colleagues in advancing their technical expertise. You will take ownership of multiple aspects of the embedded platform, exercising independent judgment on ambiguous, high-impact problems and influencing senior stakeholders on technical direction and associated risk.In your first year, you willRamp on the platform's hardware/software stack, safety requirements, and existing hypervisor deployments.Deliver an architecture recommendation for the hypervisor strategy, accounting for partitioning, determinism, and the safety implications of each hypervisor's certification posture.Characterize behavior on target hardware and produce the initial analysis artifacts demonstrating freedom from interference.Stand up the instrumentation needed to give the team visibility into timing, utilization, and VM/platform health.Essential Job DutiesDefine the virtualization safety architecture for a mixed-criticality system, ensuring spatial and temporal isolation between safety-critical and non-safety-critical applications.Prototype and evaluate Xen and QNX hypervisors, defining an architecture based on safety, determinism, certifiability, and platform fit.Own hypervisor system configuration and integration, impleme...