Senior Software Engineer

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution · Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Plano, TX (onsite) location in the Neuromodulation Division. Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum. The Senior Full Stack Engineer is responsible for ensuring that our systems and applications align with business needs and requirements in their structure, function, and overall efficiency. This role focuses on designing, enhancing, and implementing full-stack solutions that leverage AI technologies to optimize performance and automation across the entire stack. The engineer plays a crucial role in creating and maintaining technology standards, driving architectural best practices, and ensuring the seamless integration of AI-powered solutions that streamline processes and enhance product capabilities. This includes the creation of agents leveraging the latest large language models (LLMs) to increase engineering capacity and product quality. Establishes and maintains technology standards, evaluates and directs new technology designs. Provides technical full stack architectural expertise, playing a vital role in innovating, designing, enhancing, implementing, and scaling full stack firmware, applications software, wireless connectivity platforms, and AI-driven solutions. Works closely with the business to translate business requirements into system design that fit the overall business architecture. Designs frameworks and systems enabling effective realization of today’s and future business requirements. Drives engineering and architectural best practices broadly throughout the organization. 

What You’ll Work On

• Responsible for defining and documenting security-first full stack architecture and abstracting the following from the implantable therapy engine: Embedded Firmware, Hardware, Remote Services, Wireless Connectivity to medical devices. 

• Design and build the next generation of biometric security features into medical and non-medical devices aimed at simplification of user experience with a high cybersecurity measure. 

• Bring expertise in the abilities of end-to-end full stack system design: scalability, reliability, extensibility, usability, and be able to design the architecture that enables them. 

• Create an architectural vision for augmented human interaction with medical devices and digital health products and implement the vision in an agile, fast-moving environment. 

• Work with cross-functional teams like product management, development, quality, regulatory, and operations to create innovative operating alternatives that form the overall strategy and business architecture. Interface with 3rd party software companies to integrate, optimize, and stabilize platform system software. 

• Provide data to senior management on the current trends and threats in the Firmware and Software space. 

• Develop AI-Powered Full-Stack Solutions: Design and build cutting-edge full-stack applications with an emphasis on integrating AI technologies (such as machine learning models and LLMs) to optimize system performance, automate processes, and enhance decision-making. 

• AI Integration and Automation: Work closely with the business to translate requirements into AI-driven system designs that improve operational efficiencies through automation, predictive insights, and intelligent data handling. 

• Creation of Agents Leveraging Latest LLMs: Develop agents using the latest large language models to increase engineering capacity and enhance product quality. 

• Data Management and Analytics: Utilize AI-powered tools to enhance data processing, predictive modeling, and analytics, ensuring optimal system performance and efficiency across the entire stack. Optimize Engineering Efficiencies: Drive engineering and architectural best practices by leveraging AI and LLM technologies to reduce manual interventions, improve workflows, and automate routine processes. 

• Real-Time Embedded Systems: Design and develop real-time embedded systems ensuring high performance and reliability. 

• Task Breakdown and Execution: Ability to break down complex tasks into manageable components and follow through on execution to ensure timely delivery. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

• Minimum 6 years with 6-8 years of related experience or Master's Degree with 4+ years of related experience

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills. 

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously. 

• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.  

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in a technical field preferred. 

• 5+ years of experience as a real-time embedded Software Developer/Architect and Scrum Master in a software development environment. 

• Strong understanding of the SDLC, including frontend, application, and backend development. 

• Proven experience with software built using technologies such as HTML, Java, Python, C#, C, C++, JavaScript, Angular, Android, and iOS. 

• Experience with development of firmware, software with end-to-end product interactions and performance enhancements. 

• 2+ years of experience with commercialization of Wireless Connectivity (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, BLE) on iOS and Android. 

• Experience with Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Algorithms on embedded devices. 

• Proven experience in AI integration using frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Scikit-learn, with a focus on automating processes and improving system performance. 

• Experience in creating agents leveraging the latest large language models (LLMs) to enhance engineering capacity and product quality. 

* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews.

     

The base pay for this position is

$72,700.00 – $145,300.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

     

DIVISION:

NM Neuromodulation

        

LOCATION:

United States > Texas > Plano : 6901 Preston Road

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 5 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

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