Full-Time Data Analyst

Company Description

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? 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. If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help

transform the future of healthcare

, you’ll find your purpose here. We are seeking a highly motivated Clinical Data Specialist to support the development and validation of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies for robotic-assisted surgery. The Clinical Data Specialist will create, review, and maintain high-quality clinical ground truth datasets derived from surgical videos, images, and associated clinical information. This role operates at the intersection of clinical knowledge, data operations, and product development, helping translate clinical and technical requirements into accurate, consistent, and traceable datasets. The successful candidate will perform clinical annotation and quality review, investigate annotation discrepancies, maintain dataset and methodology documentation, and support the preparation of datasets used for machine learning research, product development, and verification and validation activities. This individual will collaborate closely with machine learning engineers, researchers, surgeons, clinical experts, quality and regulatory partners, data operations teams, and external annotation providers. The ideal candidate combines strong knowledge of anatomy and surgical workflows with exceptional attention to detail, documentation discipline, and sound judgment when working with complex or ambiguous clinical data. Review annotations produced by human annotators, clinical experts, external providers, and AI/ML models to ensure accuracy and consistency. Identify, document, and escalate ambiguous cases, annotation discrepancies, and data-quality risks for clinical review or adjudication. Participate in annotation training, calibration, qualification, and inter-annotator agreement activities. Maintain annotation guidelines, quality criteria, review decisions, dataset changes, and other supporting documentation. Support traceability between source data, annotation versions, quality reviews, adjudication decisions, and approved dataset outputs. Collaborate with engineers, researchers, surgeons, clinical experts, and external providers to translate clinical data requirements into annotation and review activities. Contribute to clinical data collection, tool and model evaluation, and workflow improvements that increase efficiency while maintaining clinical accuracy and data quality. Conduct clinical research through literature review, procedural analysis, and consultation with clinical experts to support AI/ML research and product-development needs. Bachelor’s degree in biology, physiology, biomedical engineering, nursing, clinical sciences, health sciences, or a related field. Strong understanding of human anatomy and an interest in learning surgical procedures across multiple specialties. Experience interpreting medical images, surgical videos, clinical workflows, or other complex visual data. Experience with data annotation, clinical data review, medical research, clinical operations, or a related field. Ability to learn and use specialized annotation platforms, data-management systems, and project-tracking tools. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to recognize patterns, inconsistencies, and potential data-quality risks. Ability to handle confidential, proprietary, and sensitive clinical information professionally. Excellent attention to detail and commitment to clinical accuracy and data quality. Ability to collaborate effectively with clinical, technical, operational, and quality-focused stakeholders. Sound judgment regarding when to make an independent decision and when to escalate a clinical or quality concern. Ability to translate clinical and AI/ML research objectives into practical data collection, annotation, and quality-review guidelines. Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Proactive and transparent in communicating mistakes, uncertainty, risks, and process challenges. Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws. Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR §743.13(b)), some roles at Intuitive Surgical may be subject to U.Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.For any Intuitive role subject to export controls, final offers are contingent upon obtaining an approved export license and/or an executed TCP prior to the prospective employee’s start date, which may or may not be flexible, and within a timeframe that does not unreasonably impede the hiring need. Intuitive is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or an accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please contact People Services at [email protected]. We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. The target compensation ranges are listed. Shift: DayMax.