Job Title: Senior Research Engineer - Software
Department: Applied Research
Reports to: Manager, Applied Research
Primary Function of Position:
Intuitive Surgical designs and manufactures
highly complex robotic systems for use in
surgery. This position offers an opportunity for
a candidate with exceptional software development
skills to work on projects ranging from blue-sky
research to those ready for transition to product
development groups. A successful candidate will
be equally comfortable leading architecture
development and producing high-quality
implementations that lend themselves to re-use,
testing, and productization. He or she must
excel in a high-energy small 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, system integration,
and testing of larger projects. The ability to
learn rapidly, as well as to drive to
creative—yet practical—solutions from rough
requireirements are essential in this position.
The candidate will work closely with other
members of the Applied Research Group and several
product development groups on product concepts,
implementation, and systems integration. A strong
sense of shared responsibility and shared reward
is required, as is the ability to make work fun and interesting.
Roles and Responsibilities:
This position has responsibility and authority for:
* Working on a cross-functional research team to
design, develop, and integrate new user
interface, image guidance, and control systems
concepts for Intuitive’s surgical robotic platforms.
* Contribute to multiple areas of software
development for the implementation of high
quality research prototypes used to evaluate new
product concepts, including but not limited to the following areas:
- User interface development.
- Medical image processing and surgical navigation.
- Servo/motor hardware control and monitoring.
* Exploring clinical needs and participating in
the development of requirements for addressing such needs.
*Completing early stage research and
proof-of-concept work to establish technical
feasibility and clinical value. This will include
rapid iterations of prototype development and evaluation.
* Helping to establish, and then own, a coherent
software architecture vision for the Applied Research Group.
* Applying this software architecture vision to
support the extension of software libraries for research and development.
* Owning maintenance of software repositories for research activities.
* Developing software implementations that adhere
to the Intuitive Surgical’s software coding
standards and good software development practices
(unit testability, source code control, etc.).
* Building applications and infrastructure that
are extensible and robust while working in small teams.
* Creating white papers and documentation for
software architecture(s) and libraries.
* Working with, and supporting, external research partners and collaborators.
Skill/Job Requirements:
Competency is based on: education, training,
skills and experience. In order to adequately
perform the responsibilities of this position the individual must have:
* A degree in Software, Electrical, or Computer
Engineering, or related fields. A graduate degree is preferred.
* Minimum 8 years experience in software development.
* Three to five (3-5) years, or more, of
industrial experience with demonstrated
proficiency at the development of
commercial-quality software architectures and implementations.
* Proven ability to identify new technologies and
principles, to rapidly develop product concepts
based on such technologies, within an applied research role.
* Hands-on experience developing software
architectures for robotic or mechatronic systems.
* Experience with medical imaging systems, with
knowledge of DICOM formats and experience with
medical image processing and image-guided surgery.
* Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the
following areas, with ability to grow into new
areas: user interfaces, computer graphics,
real-time signal processing and control
frameworks, medical image processing (2D, 3D),
image registration, segmentation, image understanding, and machine vision.​
* Excellent C/C++ skills. Experience with Matlab.
Experience with UI frameworks (e.g., Qt) and
OpenGL. Experience with image processing
libraries and toolkits such as IPP, OpenCV , ITK, VTK.
* Strong analytical skills.
* Proficiency in all phases of the development
lifecycle including design, implementation,
debug, verification, validations, and transfer.
* An interest in the medical applications of
robotics, with the ability to view surgical procedures and medical images.
* Hands-on engineering experience with proven
ability to work well in a team environment.
* Excellent communication and documentation skills.
* A real excitement to learn and get to the bottom of tough technical problems.
* Solid intellectual property management practices.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
If interested and qualified, please submit your
resume here (Job Number 428815):
http://intuitivesurgical.hodesiq.com/job_detail.asp?JobID=2202909&user_id=
For more information, please email Simon DiMaio: simon.dimaio_at_intusurg.com
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Received on 2011-04-19 05:13:25