Manager, Manufacturing Software Engineering

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:

The manager in this position will lead a team of talented software engineers tasked with enabling the manufacturing of new surgical robotic instruments and accessories. This manager will have an opportunity to lead by example and nurture a team of engineers, owning the software infrastructure and tools to enable production. The manager will foster mutual trust and respect from their team as well as stakeholders. The position will require close collaboration with product development teams, systems analysts, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, manufacturing engineers, and quality engineers to define a coherent diagnostic strategies and lead the team to develop software to implement the same.

Roles and Responsibilities:

This role requires but is not limited to:

• Hands on development as well as management (30% hands-on/70% management)
• Work with your engineers and/or product managers to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short term and long term goals.
• Guide and develop decisions on architecture and technical strategies.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members.
• Lead a team of talented software engineers to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems.
• Help develop their careers and assign them to projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals.
• Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members.
• Hiring, developing and retaining top talent and being responsible for the overall team.
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes.
• Manage competing priorities.

Skill/Job Requirements:

• Passionate about technologies and love programming/development/architecture
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods,  techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• A track record for planning, executing and delivering on projects
• Motivated to continually improve best practices
• Adaptable to dynamic requirements
• Enjoy the thrill of tackling large complex problems
• Good communication and can drive to resolution within constraints
• Excellent ability to communicate complex concepts cross functionally
• Solid understand of OOA/OOD/OOP/Design Patterns
• Demonstrated technical leadership
• Deep technical and architectural skills, so you can guide the team and oversee the amazing work that they are doing.
• Experience and passion for Agile development methodologies, test-driven development, continuous integration/continuous delivery, and automated testing.
• Highly organized and demonstrated ability to balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly.
• Great people skills, especially when it comes to influencing peers and people across teams.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Project planning and execution
• Familiar with updated software technologies
• Experience developing robotic or electro-mechanical systems, including control systems
• Strong analytical, time management, interpersonal, listening and communication skills
• Experience in medical device manufacturing or regulated engineering environment
• Strong industry experience in architecture and development of scalable production quality systems
• Fully understand Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Familiarity with Statistical Analysis, Six Sigma, and/or Statistical Process Control are pluses

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering (Software Engineering or Computer Science preferred)
• 8+ years of software development experience (higher degree can offset years of experience)

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 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.

Mandatory Notices

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who are nationals from countries currently on embargo or sanctions status.

Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the government’s licensing process can take 3 to 6+ months) or (ii) implement a Technology Control Plan (“TCP”) (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).  

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This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on
business need and/or on the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge and skills.
Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the
candidate’s qualifications, consistent with applicable law.

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 compensation ranges are listed.