Staff Embedded 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:

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.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• 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.

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for a Staff Embedded Software Engineer to join our Abbott Heart Failure team in Pleasanton, CA, where we are focused on helping people with heart failure manage their health and ultimately change and save lives.  The person will be primarily working on the CardioMEMS HF portfolio, which remotely monitors changes in pulmonary artery (PA) pressure, an early indicator of the onset of worsening heart failure, to aid physicians in preventing worsening heart failure, lower heart failure mortality rates, and improve quality of life for our heart failure patients.  The role is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of device software for new products and changes and improvements to device software for existing products. You will plan, lead, and execute technical and cross-functional project work that may include efforts in various phases of medical device product development, including design and development planning, requirements definition, product development, risk analysis, supporting verification test protocol development, and complaints investigation. Will work with cross-functional teams – Quality, regulatory, EE, Systems, product performance group, and Clinical engineering teams. 

What You’ll Work On

 

• Technical leadership for the device software development effort for a medical device. 

• Perform software unit requirement analysis. 

• Prepare software unit architecture and designs. 

• Implement software units, perform peer code review, and create software unit tests. 

• Detect, report, investigate, disposition, and fix product defects. 

• Assist with escalated customer complaints investigations. 

• Performing timely, detailed CAPA engineering tasks like assessing issue descriptions, reviewing CAPA data sources, assisting with root cause analysis, and quality problem-solving. 

• Work with cross-functional teams – Quality, regulatory, EE, Systems, and Clinical teams. 

• Follow established guidelines for and participate in the review of product engineering art