SeniorLinuxPlatformEngineer

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. Primary Function of Position The Senior Linux Platform 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. The engineer is the primary owner of OS bring-up, secure boot, remote software update infrastructure, platform security hardening, and hardware bring-up for new laptop models. This is a cross-functional role requiring close collaboration with application software, security, field service, and systems engineering teams, with opportunity to stretch into application-layer features and broader platform infrastructure work as product needs evolve. Essential Job Duties * Own and maintain the Yocto-based Linux OS for the procedure planning laptop, including custom BSP and application layer authoring, OS ve