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.