Senior Staff AI/ML Engineer

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

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.

• 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 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 Senior Staff AI/ML Engineer position can work out of our Santa Clara, CA location.

Senior Staff AI/ML Engineer will provide technical leadership for Abbott's Medical Devices Digital (MDD) AI initiatives, driving the architecture, scalability, and operational excellence of enterprise AI platforms. This role bridges advanced AI innovation with production-grade engineering, defining technical strategy, establishing best practices for MLOps and AI governance, and leading the design and evolution of robust, scalable AI infrastructure. The Senior Staff AI/ML Engineer will partner closely with data scientists, algorithm developers, infrastructure teams, product leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders to accelerate the deployment of AI solutions, ensure reliability and compliance, and influence the long-term AI technology roadmap across the organization.

What You’ll Work On

• Work on end-to-end ML solutions development and delivery, including data ingestion, annotation, feature engineering, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.  

• Architect a highly available, secure, scalable cloud/on-prem hybrid ML infrastructure.  

• Engage directly with ML scientists and act as the team’s bridge/glue between science and engineering.   

• Implement robust CI/CD workflows for ML models, including testing, rollout, rollback strategies, and compliance governance.  

• Ensure strict compliance with regulatory and privacy standards such as HIPAA, GDPR, and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) guidelines.   

• Drive alignment and adoption of architecture strategy with business leaders. 

• Mentor and guide ML engineers and SW engineers, establish coding standards, and conduct detailed design and architectural reviews.  

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering Mathematics, or related field. 

• Minimum 8+ years of experience, Master’s Degree with 6+ years of related experience, or Ph.D. with 4+ years of related experience. 

• Deep experience building ML infrastructure for experiment tracking, model training, data versioning, annotation tools, model serving, monitoring and observability. 

• Experience with GenAI and Agentic AI development infrastructure including grounding, RAG, MCP and prompt engineering.  ​

• Experience developing AI products on cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), pipeline orchest