Senior Manager, R&D Software Engineer

Role Summary

Senior Manager, Software Engineering within the Robotics & Digital Solutions organization. Location: Santa Clara, CA. Leads software development across infrastructure, connectivity, and security to enable surgeons and robotic medical devices; responsible for mentoring teams and delivering software in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and mentor a team of engineers supporting multiple surgical robotics products
• Contribute to software architecture design for future enhancements and releases
• Collaborate with partner organizations to drive technical and process improvements to boost developer and user efficiency
• Engage with internal and external partners from business and technical perspectives
• Support C++ and Python development, facilitate design discussions, and promote best practices
• Identify, manage, and mitigate technical and project risk with R&D and external collaborators
• Coach and mentor software engineering managers and develop the team
• Manage teams developing software under IEC 62304 and FDA guidance
• Provide technical leadership in middleware, communications, software security, and cloud integration

Qualifications

• Bachelor‚Äôs or Master‚Äôs degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
• 5+ years of experience leading software engineering teams
• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong understanding of software design principles, architecture, and cloud integration
• Exceptional written and verbal communication; collaborative, team-oriented
• Proven leadership and collaboration skills with distributed/cross-functional teams
• Experience in regulated environments with ISO 13485, 21 CFR 820, or similar standards

Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, And Experience

• Experience delivering software for medical devices
• Proficiency with cloud integrations
• Experience developing C++ applications for multi-target environments (real-time and non-real-time Linux)
• Experience in an Agile development environment
• Experience with IEC 62304 (medical device software development)

Additional Requirements

• Location: Santa Clara, CA; up to 10% travel