Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Abbott Laboratories

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.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Heart Failure

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

At Abbott R&D’s Heart Failure division, we spend our days engineering meaningful products that save and extend the lives of heart failure patients. Providing a full stack of solutions ranging from wireless implanted cardiac output sensors to mechanical pumps that assist failing hearts; we need your expertise to help us engineer the next generation of class III medical devices (i.e. Bluetooth enabled implants, Wireless charging, Remote monitoring with the cloud, telemedicine etc.)

The Opportunity

We are seeking talented, enthusiastic, and dependable Senior Embedded Software Engineer who will collaborate with our systems, human factors, cybersecurity and regulatory teams to understand the needs of our products and our patients and then develop best-in-class firmware within a rigorous Agile process.   

What You’ll Work On

• Develop C/C++ embedded software for Class III medical devices.
• Working under limited supervision, develop high-risk/high complexity-level software project tasks.
• Ability to work from requirement specifications and architectural guidelines to design and implement software and test strategies.
• Collaborate with other developers in software design, implementation, unit testing, and debugging.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and isolate software problems and offer strategic advice regarding identified issues for future development.
• Participate in cybersecurity risk assessment, requirements development, and implementation of cybersecurity features and best practices.
• May present or contribute to presentations at design reviews; document and resolve issues as directed.
• Contribute to and support a variety of development and test phase efforts.
• May write and update requirement specifications for an assigned area.
• Comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. 
• Maintain positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities, on occasion, as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 6+ years of relative experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering or biomedical engineering may be used in lieu of some experience
• Minimum of 5 years developing progressively more complex software in C/C++, with at least two years developing software in an embedded environment for microcontrollers
• At least one year developing embedded software for medical devices or other highly regulated field
• Solid understanding of formal software development methodologies, and source code management
• Experience in working in an iterative (Agile, Scrum, Kanban) development process
• Experience in Software risk-based design control processes such as FDA 62304
• Experience with GIT for version control and Jira for issue tracking
• Ability to provide guidance, mentorship and task leadership to more junior team members
• Experience operating, installing and configuring Linux operating systems
• Fluent in embedded design and implementation patterns including multithreading, asynchronous io, inter-process messaging, error handing, event handlers, error handlers, semaphores/mutexs, interrupts and processes
• Experience developing custom agents utilizing the full BLE stack (5.0+)
• Experience with unit- and integration-level testing and automated testing
• Ability to communicate technical solutions and issues clearly and adequately to management as well as members on the project
• Experience within an FDA regulated medical field
• Experience analyzing and debugging embedded system using oscilloscopes, logic Analyzers and any other appropriate equipment
• Experience in Implantable technologies
• Knowledge of hardware breadboards and PC hardware system interfaces and embedded systems
• Experience with BLE 5.0 a plus

Apply Now

* 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.

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The base pay for this position is $83,600.00 – $167,200.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.