Sr. AI & Automation Engineer, Robotics

Intuitive Surgical seeks a Senior AI & Automation Engineer to build AI tools, automation systems, and evaluation frameworks that accelerate research and engineering workflows for robotic-assisted surgery. The role focuses on automating experiments, testing, and analysis to help teams work more efficiently with physical robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Build AI tools, APIs, and agent workflows to automate engineering and research activities across teams
• Develop automation systems for training, fine-tuning, and evaluation workflows in simulation and on real robots
• Design experiments and evaluations with statistical rigor to assess whether changes represent real improvements
• Create logging, analysis, and debugging tools to help teams understand results and convert robot sessions into training data
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and integrate those with measurable impact into team operations

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with production Python
• Hands-on experience building automation or testing systems on real robot hardware
• Experience building and deploying AI agents, LLM workflows, or automation pipelines
• Knowledge of experimental design and statistical methods for validating improvements
• Proficiency with Linux, CI/CD, Docker, APIs, and distributed systems
• BS in Computer Science, Robotics, or related technical field; MS or PhD preferred