Joining Intuitive Surgical means joining a team dedicated to using technology to benefit patients by improving surgical efficacy and

decreasing surgical invasiveness, with patient safety as our highest priority.

Primary Function of Position:

The engineer in thisposition will be responsible for verification of multiple Field ProgrammableGate Arrays (FPGAs) and shared RTL modules that are part of Intuitive's daVinciSurgical Systems. The designs address high-performance communications, videoprocessing, and motor control, among other areas. This individual will work with fellowverification engineers and FPGA design engineers to help ensure that only highquality, reliable designs reach our customers by developing testbenchinfrastructure and tests, debugging designs, and providing coverage closure.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop UVM-based testbenches from scratch or modify existingones to support new features in FPGAs


• Work closely with the design team; review architecture anddesign specifications, extract features, and create test plans and coveragemodel


• Write directed and constrained random tests


• Analyze test failures and debug with designers


• Analyze coverage, improve tests to meet coverage goals


• Evaluate new tools and methodologies

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:

• Minimum 5 years industry experience or equivalent


• Strong written and verbal communications skills


• Experience with Hardware Verification Language (HVL)-basedmethodologies, especially Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)


• Advanced SystemVerilog expertise


• Fluent in scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and Tcl


• Experience with QuestaSim, Incisive or VCS simulators, andcommon RTL debug/analysis tools


• Experience with writing SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) is aplus


• Experience with Veloce or other HW accelerators and formalmethods

We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.