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Sr Software Test Engineer - Future Forward Team

Sunnyvale, CA, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-10-05 → 2026-10-07

Core

Lead system verification for robotic surgical systems, owning the full lifecycle from strategy design to execution and defect management. (via careerplan.io/jobs/744000153619099-sr-software-test-engineer-future-forward-team-at-intuitive)

Role type

Senior Software Test Engineer (Medical Devices)

Builds

Robotic surgical systems (da Vinci, Ion) and their verification pipelines

Domain

Medical Devices / Robotic Surgery / Systems Engineering

Required skills

System verification strategy, V&V for medical devices, FMEA/FTA, embedded software debugging, requirements traceability, regression analysis

Preferred skills

Test automation framework design, Python/MATLAB/JavaScript scripting, unit testing frameworks, Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) testing, CI/CD integration

Technologies

Python, MATLAB, JavaScript, pytest, unittest, Google Test, HIL environments

Responsibilities

Design and execute test protocols for functional software verification; Generate test reports with requirements traceability; Manage defects end-to-end including root cause analysis; Contribute to requirements discussions and design change reviews; Analyze test data to identify non-conformance trends; Lead regression analysis to assess change impact

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC