Senior 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:

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

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
This position can be located out of our Dallas, TX or Lake Forest, IL location in the Transfusion Medicine, Diagnostics Division. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people. 

The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will help develop robotics control and scheduling applications used in a laboratory environment, automating the testing of donor blood and plasma. The ideal candidate will have experience in motion control and fluidics, utilizing servos and stepper motors to physically move mechanisms into position and valves and pumps to process fluids.

What You’ll Work On

• Will contribute to the design and development of embedded robotic control software under a disciplined product development process that meets FDA and other regulatory requirements.

• Will work on software design, coding, and validation. Will support formal verification and validation testing and ensure that development conforms to design specifications and coding standards.

• Work as part of a cross functional team to realize subsystem designs, assisting in the preparation of software design requirements and documenting work products via software design descriptions, design reviews, code reviews, unit testing, and formal verification.

• Design and implement low-level device control layer (driver level) software in current programming languages (e.g., C, C++).

• Design and implement application layer device control software utilizing statecharts to automate mechanical engineering designs.

• Assist in the evaluation of selected designs through testing and full documentation of the results.

• Investigate on-market issues, determine appropriate corrections, and implement those corrections underneath our software engineering process.

• Leads and is accountable for the engineering design and implementation for one or more software features in the System.

• Defines code-level application programming interfaces and strategies for unit testing, integration testing and performance testing for one or more features.

• Serves as the technical subject matter expert for one or more features, identifying process issues and recommending corrective measures.

• Defines feature evolution, branching, integration, and deployment strategy. Defines structure of the source code files for one or more features. Ensures successful integration of one or more features in the continuous integration environment.

• Reviews testing strategy and test protocols for one or more features. Implements hardware/interface simulation for one or more features.

• Analyzes user needs, product requirements, software requirements and provides input to System Engineer and other stakeholders. Ass