Configuration Release Engineer

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. 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:_

This role is to support, enhance, optimize, and innovate the embedded software build environment for the minimally invasive DaVinci Single Port surgical robot. The ideal candidate will have proven experience and is a motivated self-starter with the ability to make autonomous decisions by working cross org in a result oriented manner within a regulated environment. Support small to mid-sized development teams by maintaining development pipeline consisting of compiler toolchain and build infrastructure by using infrastructure as code for dynamic environments. Support activities in legacy and future product development pipeline for embedded platform.

• Focusing on infrastructure automation and execution of infrastructure as code methodologies along with maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving build tool pipelines. This position will work closely with other configuration release engineers, developers, DBAs, QA, and project managers throughout the software lifecycle in delivering best in class technical infrastructure to support external product delivery
• Continue to keep the lights on (day-to-day administration of build systems, machines, and tools)
• Proactively monitor and resolve issues for emake builds (e.g., long build times due to machines going down)
• Setup Windows and Linux machines (physical and virtual) for emake builds (e.g., new hires or replacement laptops for existing engineers)
• Onboard new and existing engineers using physical and virtual infrastructure
• Setup Bazel/cmake builds for new hardware and software
• Provide on call support for critical applications as required
• Participate in the development, execution, and support of Infrastructure management and operations
• Establish infrastructure monitoring and health reporting for advancement of self-healing infrastructure principles
• Enhance/extend a configuration/deployment/monitoring framework in partnership with IT Engineer(s)
• Optimize make files and build scripts
• Interact with internal customers and development team to gather and define requirements and document architecture.
• Follows a formal design process using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, other accepted design techniques.
• Deploy and manage a build pipeline using tools such as: Ansible, Jenkins, BitBucket, GitLab CI
• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement
• Help increase system performance with a focus on high availability and scalability