Intuitive Autonomy

Intuitive Autonomy

Software Engineer ML Platform

San Francisco, CA, United States · Senior · Contract

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PythonJavaC++Code ReviewRedisDockerKubernetesCI/CDLinuxAPI DevelopmentKafkaRabbitMQMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchComputer VisionAccessibilityRoboticsResearch

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About the role

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain software infrastructure for robotic simulations & ML using NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo or custom simulation environments.
  • Build automated integration and validation pipelines for evolving simulation platforms, physics engines, and the NVIDIA AI ecosystem, enabling rapid adoption of new releases while maintaining compatibility, reproducibility, and stability across the robotics simulation software stack.
  • Develop AI-assisted engineering workflows for automated code refactoring, maintainability analysis, architectural consistency, and CI/CD optimization, enabling readable, modular, and sustainable codebases while improving engineering productivity across large-scale software projects.
  • Create reusable abstractions for robot configurations, tasks, sensors, scene assets, domain randomization, failure injection, data capture, episode termination, and evaluation.
  • Build tools that allow data scientists to define experiments without modifying low-level platform code. Support headless, interactive, local, cluster, and cloud-based execution.
  • Develop secure, GPU-enabled containerized environments for simulation, data processing, model inference, and experimentation.
  • Develop common interfaces for robot state, coordinate frames, actions, trajectories, control commands, sensor observations, timing, and safety status.
  • Build tools for importing physical robot logs into analysis and simulation environments. Enable software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and controlled trajectory replay where appropriate.
  • Collaborate with controls, embedded, systems, and robotics engineers to manage differences between simulated and physical interfaces.
  • Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, robotics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with high-volume image, video, time-series, or scientific data and formats such as Parquet, Zarr, or HDF5.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and at least one additional language such as C++, Java, or TypeScript.
  • Experience designing and operating production-quality backend or platform systems.
  • Experience with asynchronous processing, distributed workers, message queues, or event-driven architectures.
  • Strong understanding of API design, data modeling, concurrency, failure handling, and distributed-system fundamentals.
  • Experience with Docker, Linux, testing, observability, and production deployment.

Nice to have

  • Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Gazebo, PhysX, or another robotics simulation platform.
  • Experience with coordinate transforms, robot kinematics, joint states, trajectory representations, sensor synchronization, or closed-loop control.
  • Experience with ROS or ROS 2 and GPU-enabled applications or infrastructure.
  • Experience with Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Ray, Celery, Kubernetes, Slurm, or cloud batch systems.
  • Experience with PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, MLflow, or Weights & Biases.
  • 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.

Skills

  • It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful?

Benefits

  • If you're ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you'll find your purpose here.
  • As a Senior Software Engineer - Simulation & ML Platform, you will build software platforms supporting simulation-based data generation and machine-learning development for robotic motion AI.
  • You will work closely with Simulation Data Scientists and ML teams responsible for simulation strategy, synthetic-data design, action-model development, sim-to-real evaluation, and machine-learning experimentation.
  • 5+ years of industry experience developing software for simulation, machine learning, robotics, computer vision, or autonomous-systems.

Company info

  • If you require assistance or an accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please contact People Services at HRHelpNow@intusurg.com.
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