Staff AI/ML Architect, Embodied AI

• Sunnyvale, CA, United States
• Not Remote
• Engineering
• JOB216051

### Company Description

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.

The Future Forward organization is Intuitive’s advanced concepts group. We explore emerging technologies, prototype next-generation solutions, and build software experiences that shape the future of robotic-assisted surgery.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.

### Job Description

Primary Function of Position

We are building advanced augmented dexterity capabilities for next-generation robotic platforms. As a Staff AI/ML Architect, you will own the end-to-end architecture of our applied-AI system: a hierarchical, multimodal stack in which a high-level model interprets sensory observations and produces structured intent, and a low-level policy turns that intent into precise, safe, real-time control. You will set the technical direction the rest of the AI/ML team builds against, define the interfaces between perception, reasoning, and control, and make the architecture decisions that let us...