[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Intuitive jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Intuitive · Sunnyvale, CA # Staff Embedded Software Engineer Sunnyvale, CA, United States Full-time Senior individual contributor Software Engineering Listed on Intuitive’s official careers site. Posted August 19, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Intuitive’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Intuitive/744000144333776-staff-embedded-software-engineer) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Intuitive](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/) / Staff Embedded Software Engineer ## Job description ### Essential Job Duties - Gather high-level cross-functional requirements, ranging from customer-facing requirements to clinical and safety requirements, and cybersecurity requirements. - Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders on the definition of development plans and timelines, that combine technical needs with schedule and resource need. - Identify interfaces and communication requirements between hardware and software components, architect modular and testable software that supports the system high-level behaviors. - Support prototyping and development activities of novel surgical robotic platforms, by leveraging and adapting the existing infrastructure that is shared across all Intuitive robotic systems; learn from each iteration, refine and extend code quickly and methodically. - Lead formal risk analysis; identify additional hardware requirements and develop software mitigations. - Act as software lead in the high-level specification, bring-up and integration of new custom PCAs and FPGA IP. - Perform detailed design, development, documentation and support verification activities of embedded software and supervisory state machines, in compliance with regulatory requirements and Intuitive's internal guidelines. - Contribute broadly to multiple areas of software development for our distributed multi-processor systems, including but not limited to video and servo hardware control and monitoring, inter-processor communication subsystem development, system diagnostic and service application development, user interface development - Apply high level and specialized industry expertise that results in new innovations and problem-solving approaches that can be leveraged across multiple products. - Represent your project ably in interactions externally with key customer collaborators and internally within the company. ## Qualifications ### Required Education and Training - Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, or similar technical field. - A minimum of 12 years of experience in developing and supporting embedded systems (or 8 years with a Master’s degree, or 5 years with a PhD degree). ### Required Skills and Experience - Fluent in designing and developing mission-critical cross-platform code in C++ or C, with focus on embedded and real time systems (e.g. QNX). - Fluent with embedded compute architectures, and their development and testing methodologies, including hardware debugging. - Fluent with communication protocols such as TCP/IP, CAN, serialization protocols. - Fluent with memory management, concurrency, synchronous and asynchronous event handling. - Working knowledge of Python or other scripting languages for automation, diagnostics and testing. Familiarity with Vivado and other FPGA development tools. ### Preferred Skills and Experience - Familiarity with servo-controls and electro-mechanical systems. - 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. - Familiarity with medical technology projects from inception through field validation to launch. Strong understanding of medical product ecosystem services. - Familiarity with CUDA programming and memory management concepts. - Cyber-security concepts such as secure boot, authentication and encryption. - Hands-on engineering experience with proven ability to work effectively in a team environment. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Aug 19, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 13, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 20, 2026 - Listed for: 62 days - Location: Sunnyvale, CA, United States - Employment type: Full-time[Apply on Intuitive’s careers site →](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Intuitive/744000144333776-staff-embedded-software-engineer) ## More jobs at Intuitive ### [Embedded Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/jobs/816d7607a90621a138bc/) Sunnyvale, CA, United States ### [Equipment Engineering - Software](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/jobs/eeaf460bea4e0faeee68/) Sunnyvale, CA, United States ### [Full Stack Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/jobs/be8565ad80229ea176ab/) Sunnyvale, CA, United States ### [Future opportunities - Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Video Systems](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/intuitive/jobs/0a522f8aa90651d773c1/) Sunnyvale, CA, United States ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Principal Embedded Software Development Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/fortinet/jobs/031aef8e04f3e4c669c0/) Fortinet · Sunnyvale, CA, United States ### [Senior/Staff Software Development Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/fortinet/jobs/11156fd4abafd0c551d5/) Fortinet · Sunnyvale, CA, United States ### [Cyber Software Engineer Staff (Embedded)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/lockheed-martin/jobs/81769881a130b68fb138/) Lockheed Martin · Orlando, FL ### [Embedded Software Engineer Staff](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/lockheed-martin/jobs/d9c25416be023037a903/) Lockheed Martin · Grand Prairie, TX ### [Staff Embedded Software Development Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/qualcomm/jobs/645bd6621527868560df/) Qualcomm · San Diego, California, United States of America [Jobs in Sunnyvale, CA](/locations/us/ca/sunnyvale/)[Jobs in California](/locations/us-ca/)[Software Engineering jobs](/functions/software-engineering/) OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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