Intuitive Surgical

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA, United States

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Intuitive Surgical is hiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA, United States. Posted October 20, 2026.

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Design, build, and maintain both the frontend and backend of a new internal AI-powered platform — taking ownership of features from development through production deployment
Build and maintain integrations between the platform and cloud services, AI APIs, and internal data sources
Write clean, tested, and well-documented code across the full stack (Python backend + React/TypeScript frontend)
Contribute to architectural discussions with guidance from senior engineers — learning to think beyond the feature and consider system design

Integrate generative AI and LLM capabilities into the platform to help business teams find information faster, answer questions, and automate repetitive workflows
Begin applying agentic and tool-calling patterns with growing independence — supported by senior engineers

Partner with business teams to understand workflows and translate them into working software features — with some guidance on scoping and prioritization
Participate actively in design reviews, sprint planning, and retrospectives
Communicate progress, blockers, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Implement secure authentication and access control (OAuth 2.0 / OIDC) appropriate for sensitive business data
Follow and contribute to data governance practices to ensure the platform handles information responsibly

Contribute to and follow team engineering best practices — unit testing, integration testing, code reviews, and documentation
Work confidently within CI/CD pipelines to build, test, and deploy features to production
Use observability and monitoring tools to diagnose issues and understand platform health in production

Gather and act on real user feedback to iterate on features over time
Balance speed and reliability — shipping incrementally while maintaining production quality standards