Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Intuitive

Seniority in posting: senior

Setup: On-site
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 29, 2026

Description

Intuitive is hiring an Embedded Software Engineer to develop and maintain the embedded Linux platform for its Ion robotic endoluminal biopsy system. The role involves defining requirements, building distributed C/C++ applications, integrating hardware and FPGA/PCIe systems, debugging across OS and application layers, ensuring reliability and performance, and supporting verification, manufacturing transfer, and clinical activities. Candidates need a bachelor’s degree with 6+ years of industry experience or a master’s degree with 4+ years, along with embedded Linux, C/C++, kernel driver, and system-level debugging expertise.

Required Skills

Embedded Linux
C/C++
Kernel drivers
Python 3
FPGA
CI/CD

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline, or a master’s degree in a related discipline.
Required Previous Experiences: 4+ years of hands-on experience developing and supporting embedded systems in a production environment.
Experience developing and debugging embedded Linux systems, including multi-threaded applications.
Experience with Linux kernel driver development, board-support packages, device tree, bootloader integration, and low-level hardware interfaces.
Experience integrating embedded Linux systems with FPGA, PCIe, DMA, custom ASICs, or other high-throughput hardware data paths.
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with embedded communication interfaces, networked device integration, protocol debugging, and performance analysis.
Experience designing systems with real-time or near–real-time constraints.
Knowledge of cybersecurity concepts such as secure boot, authentication, encryption, and key management.
Experience across the full product development lifecycle, including design, implementation, debugging, verification, validation, and manufacturing transfer.
Experience developing software for FDA-regulated, safety-critical, or mission-critical systems, including design controls, traceability, risk analysis, and mitigation.
Hands-on experience with networking and streaming technologies such as UDP, RTP, SRTP, SSL/TLS, and GStreamer.
Experience with Yocto/OpenEmbedded, PetaLinux, cross-compilation, or reproducible build systems.
Translation Company Name: Intuitive