Job Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare’s hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere—we strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture—our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let’s advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Company Description

Intuitive designs and manufactures state-of-the-art computer- and robot-assisted systems for use in minimally invasive surgery. These systems are revolutionizing the way in which surgery is being done and offer a unique platform that is being used routinely at hospitals worldwide for exploring the potential of intelligent surgery. Joining Intuitive 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 Future Forward Research group within Intuitive has an immediate opening in Sunnyvale, CA for a software engineer with a focus on XR (AR, MR, VR) technology, contributing to the exploration and development of new system concepts for the current and next generation robotic surgery and digital platforms. This role is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative team within a dynamic and challenging problem-solving environment.

A successful candidate must excel in a high-energy focused team environment, must have excellent communication skills and must be able to balance independent production of results with the need to collaborate during planning, development, integration, and evaluation of research concepts and minimum viable products. The ability to learn rapidly, as well as to drive to creative—yet practical—solutions from rough requirements are essential in this position. The candidate will work closely with other members of the research group as well as with other business units within Intuitive. A strong sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required, as is the ability to make work fun and interesting.

As Part Of The Research Team, Immediate Responsibilities Include

• Design, develop, debug, and deploy next-generation XR apps in Unity, C# or similar environments.
• Develop 3D applications for the latest XR devices such as HoloLens, Magic Leap, iOS, Oculus, Android.
• Develop high-fidelity 3D content, UI, assets, and interaction methods for XR devices.
• Develop new immersive reality features that contribute to the product roadmap.
• Integrate XR apps with back-end systems, APIs and services.
• Create documentation for the features being developed, the techniques that were tried and rejected or implemented.
• Apply good software engineering practices to write elegant, robust, reliable, maintainable, and reusable code.
  

Minimum Qualification

To adequately perform the responsibilities of this position the individual must possess:

• Minimum Education: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Game Technology, Visualization Sciences, or a related field with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in developing XR applications.
• Excellent Object-Oriented programming skills and hands-on experience in C++, C#, and Visual Studio.
• Hands-on experience in developing machine vision, SLAM, tracking, registration, and scene understanding algorithms.
• Rich experience in developing applications for head-mounted /hand-held XR devices such as - Oculus, HoloLens, iPhone or equivalent.
• Hands on experience with graphics, modelling and game development tools such as Unity, Unreal, Blender, Maya, OpenGL and DirectX.
• Experience working with one or more XR libraries such as ARKit, ARCore, AR Foundation, MRTK, WebXR, OpenCV, three.js and Vuforia.
• Excellent programming skills with a solid understanding of software engineering techniques, methodologies, and attention to detail.
• Self-starter with strong communication skills and able to work in a collaborative and results-oriented environment.
  

Preferred Qualification

• Experience in early phases of product exploration and iteration based on incomplete requirements to shipping XR applications.
• Demonstrated a breadth of experience in developing rich UI/UX for XR applications.
• Able to view live and recorded surgical procedures.
• Ability to travel up to 10% time.
  

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Shift : Shift 1 - Day

Travel : Yes, 10 % of the Time

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