Staff Platform Engineer

Company 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.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will head a team of talented and dedicated engineers within the Future Forward organization. This is an exciting opportunity to grow a technical team focused on developing new solutions to address significant unmet patient needs.

In this leadership position, you will drive product definition and formative development activities in support of new or emerging applications, aspiring to be hands while also leading a multi-disciplinary team of engineers to deliver high value technical solutions.

Critical to the success of this role is experience in leading small technical teams to successfully drive market definition, product specification and early engineering development for new technology-based instruments and platforms, from inception to formal program launch.

Your role will be to combine technical acumen in the development of complex surgical platforms, with special focus on embedded software and hardware, with cross-functional coordination across project stakeholders, leading to th definition of project scope schedule, milestones and delivery towards early feasibility studies, regulatory clearances.

The successful candidate must excel in a high-energy small, focused team environment, be able to drive to solutions from rough requirements and methodical prototype iterations, and have a commitment to high product quality that places patients first.

Quick learning and a desire to understand requirements from a user’s and engineering’s perspective are essential to become a valuable system developer. A dedicated sense of shared responsibility and shared reward is required, as is the ability to make work fun and interesting. Supporting you will be a development and management team that knows and cares about what you are doing and wants you to succeed.

Essential Job Duties

• Drive a technical team through early-stage product development and business validation of novel solutions.
• Drive direct reports to prioritize internal projects and processes to achieve functional and business priorities.
• Manage the team using resource planning, goal setting and tracking, career growth, performance management, hiring, budgeting and spend management.
• Contribute with senior leadership to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, and operational plans based on business strategy.
• Represent your project ably in interactions externally with key customer collaborators and internally within the company.
• Lead in developing research and development plans and partner in financial performance strategy, product KPI impact strategy as well as associated field validation studies for your program.

Qualifications

Required Education and Training

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, or similar technical field.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in developing and supporting embedded systems (or 6 years with a Master’s degree, or 3 years with a PhD degree).

Required Skills and Experience

• Successful experience in hospital-based healthcare technology realization from initial customer need identification through product launch.
• Proven ability to provide technical, and tactical leadership for staff and peers, in startup medical technology environment within a larger organization (entrepreneurship).
• Proven ability to hold both a program vision and drive effective tactics to achieve goals; ability to manage a complex, high visibility/high impact project with multiple sub-teams within the program.
• Proven ability to engage key stakeholders and effectively seek ways to leverage technology to better address opportunities and challenges.
• Evidence of exceptional communication both within a team and with key opinion leaders (KOL’s), regulatory authorities and customers.
• Evidence of successful development and leadership of a team of high capability technical professionals.
• Solid problem-solving skills and debugging of complex embedded software and electromechanical systems.
• In-depth knowledge of failure mode and risk analysis, with experience working on safety-critical, product-focused designs.
• Experience in all phases of the product development lifecycle including design, implementation, debug, verification, validation, and transfer to manufacturing.
• Evidence of robust problem-solving skills and critical thinking.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels and organizations.
• A real excitement to learn and to get to the bottom of tough technical problems, and to help patient’s lives.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Leadership of medical technology projects from inception through field validation to launch; Solid understanding of medical product ecosystem services.
• Proven skills in quantitative analysis and data-driven decision making
• Experience with intellectual property fundamentals
• Demonstrated capacity to relate to all levels of employees
• Experience designing software products in a regulated industry or for mission critical applications; comfort with concepts of design input, design output, traceability, risk analysis, and mitigations.

Additional Information

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.

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.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action 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.

EEO and AA Policy

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

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.