Senior Embedded Linux Software Engineer — OS & Device Platform

• Sunnyvale, CA, United States
• Not Remote
• Engineering
• JOB215528

### Company Description

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.

### Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The Senior Embedded Linux / Yocto Software Engineer will join the platform team for a robotic-assisted bronchoscopy navigation and biopsy planning software product, reporting to the software development manager. This role owns the Linux operating system and platform-layer software for the procedure planning laptop, a medical image-processing system running a custom Yocto-based Linux distribution.

This role owns embedded Linux OS development, Yocto/OpenEmbedded layer and recipe maintenance, secure boot, field software update mechanisms, hardware bring-up for new commercial laptop platforms, and platform-level debugging. The engineer will work closely with application software, security, field service, systems engineering, and hardware teams to maintain and evolve a reliable, secure, and serviceable medical device...