资深软件构建工程师
Staff Software Build Engineer
在Intuitive，我们团结一致致力于我们的使命：我们相信微创护理是提升生命质量的护理方式。通过创新和智能技术，我们拓展医生无拘无束地治愈疾病的能力。
作为机器人辅助手术领域的先驱和市场领导者，我们努力打造一个包容且多元化的团队，致力于带来改变。在过去25多年里，我们与全球的医院和护理团队合作，帮助解决医疗领域最棘手的挑战，推动可能的边界。
Intuitive是由来自不同背景的优秀人才共同努力构建的。我们认为伟大的想法可以来自任何地方——我们努力营造一个以思想多样性与相互尊重为基础的包容文化。我们以包容为领导力，赋能团队成员以最真实的自我发挥最佳工作状态。
充满热情、希望带来改变的人们塑造了我们的文化——我们的团队成员秉持诚信，具备强大的学习能力，有完成工作的能量，并带来多样化的现实经验，帮助我们以新的方式思考。我们积极投资于团队成员，支持他们的长期发展，使他们能够继续推进我们的使命并实现最高潜力。
加入一个致力于为全球医疗专业人员及其患者群体带来重大进步的团队。一起，让我们推动微创护理的世界向前发展。
职位主要职责：
Intuitive的软件构建团队正在寻找一位动手能力强的资深软件工程师，负责设计、构建和运营跨所有机器人手术平台的下一代统一构建系统。
该职位面向一位资深工程师，他编写代码、调试真实的构建失败问题、原型化基础设施，并通过直接的技术贡献扩展系统。你将负责核心构建架构，同时深入参与实现——推动可衡量的构建速度、正确性和开发者生产力的提升，适用于大型、关键安全性的C/C++代码库。
你将担任技术领导者和导师，但此职位并非仅限于监督。你将花大量时间设计构建规则、实现工具、调试分布式构建，并在生产环境中演进CI基础设施。
职位职责：
· 为大规模C/C++嵌入式软件设计、实现和维护基于Bazel的构建系统，包括自定义工具链和交叉编译流程。
· 直接指导构建系统的开发，确保其高效、可靠和可扩展。
· 与跨职能团队协作，优化构建流程，提高整体开发效率。
· 参与构建系统的架构设计，推动技术创新和最佳实践。
· 协助团队成员解决问题，提供技术指导和支持。
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At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare’s hardest challenges and advance what is possible.
Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere—we strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.
Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture—our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real-world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.
Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let’s advance the world of minimally invasive care.
Primary Function of Position:
The Software Build team at Intuitive is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and operate the next-generation unified build system across all robotic surgery platforms.
This role is for a senior engineer who writes code, debugs real build failures, prototypes infrastructure, and scales systems through direct technical contribution. You will own core build architecture while remaining deeply involved in implementation—driving measurable improvements in build speed, correctness, and developer productivity across large, safety-critical C/C++ codebases.
You will serve as a technical leader and mentor, but this is not an oversight-only role. Expect to spend significant time designing build rules, implementing tooling, debugging distributed builds, and evolving CI infrastructure in production.
Roles and Responsibilities:
· Design, implement, and maintain Bazel-based build systems for large-scale C/C++ embedded software, including custom toolchains and cross-compilation flows.
· Directly implement and optimize Bazel Remote Caching and Remote Execution (RBE) to enable fast, deterministic builds across local, CI, and cloud environments.
· Write production code in Rust, C/C++, and Python to support build tooling, infrastructure services, and developer workflows.
· Own and evolve build performance: cache hit rates, execution parallelism, dependency hygiene, hermeticity, and reproducibility.
· Build and maintain developer-facing tooling that improves local iteration speed and CI reliability.
· Integrate and operate build infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments, balancing performance, security, and cost.
· Work directly with firmware, platform, and application teams to debug real-world build issues and eliminate systemic bottlenecks.
· Improve observability of build systems through metrics, logging, and analytics.
· Mentor engineers through code reviews, architectural discussions, and hands-on problem solving.
· Act as a technical advocate for modern build practices and scalable development workflows.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
· Deep technical ownership with a bias toward implementation and measurable outcomes.
· Ability to balance architectural rigor with pragmatic delivery.
· Builds trust through technical credibility and consistent execution.
· Drives alignment by connecting build system improvements to developer productivity and product velocity.
· Acts as a hands-on technical leader shaping the long-term evolution of Intuitive’s development platforms.
· 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong record of hands-on technical ownership.
· Deep, practical expertise with Bazel in complex C/C++ and embedded environments.
· Proven experience implementing and operating Bazel Remote Caching and Remote Execution at scale.
· Strong programming experience in Rust, C/C++, and Python.
· Experience debugging and optimizing distributed build systems, CI pipelines, and build infrastructure under real production constraints.
· Solid understanding of compiler toolchains, linkers, and build graph behavior.
· Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and influence teams through technical leadership.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
· Experience with Nix and Nix-based packaging for reproducible builds and developer environments.
· Familiarity with BuildBuddy (or similar Bazel observability / remote execution platforms).
· Experience with Yocto-based toolchains and embedded Linux build workflows.
· Exposure to REAPI-compatible execution backends and remote build infrastructure.
· Experience supporting safety-critical or regulated software systems (medical, automotive, aerospace).
· Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in Computer Science or related field.
· 12–15 years of relevant industry experience.
Intuitive is an Equal Employment 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.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
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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).
For any Intuitive role subject to export controls, final offers are contingent upon obtaining an approved export license and/or an executed TCP prior to the prospective employee’s
start date, which may or may not be flexible, and within a timeframe that does not unreasonably impede the hiring need. If applicable, candidates will be notified and instructed on any requirements for these purposes.
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.