Senior Software Engineer at Intuitive
Sunnyvale, CA
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Jul 30, 2026
Sunnyvale, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Software Engineer role on the real-time software infrastructure team at Intuitive, focused on building observability applications and data pipelines for the da Vinci robotic surgical platform. The work centers on designing tools for system event timeline visualization, log replay, automatic issue detection, and multimodal data analysis — drawing on both cloud backends and direct device interfaces. The role suits an experienced engineer comfortable spanning system software, data pipelines, and some frontend development.
Senior level · 8+ years · Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 910 people in the Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 680–1,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052).
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The degree requirement is flexible: the JD accepts a Bachelor's + 8 years, Master's + 6 years, PhD + 3 years, or equivalent experience — so no minimum degree is hard-gated.
C++ is listed as 'ability to understand' rather than active development proficiency, but it appears in the required qualifications section and is treated as a hard gate at a read/comprehension level.
AWS is listed with specific services (Lambda, S3) alongside GCP as an alternative cloud platform; GCP is listed as an alternative rather than a separate required skill.
The posting mentions 'target compensation ranges' but does not actually publish the figures, so no compensation values are captured.
The posting notes a preference against candidates residing in certain US states (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee), which may affect candidate pool geography.
Distributed systems experience and familiarity with observability data from robotics/embedded devices appear in the required section but name no specific technology, so they are not emitted as skills.
React and JavaScript appear only under Preferred Skills.
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