Principal Software Embedded 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 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: Principal Software Embedded Engineer, works out of our San Diego, CA on site in our office location in our ID ARDx Division.

Are you passionate about crafting innovative software solutions? Join our dynamic team at ID ARDx Division in San Diego, CA. As a Principal Software Embedded Engineer, you’ll blend technical expertise with collaborative creativity to design, develop, and verify system software.

Here’s what you’ll be working on:

Holistic Approach: Apply an interdisciplinary mindset to tackle complex problems. From planning to execution, you’ll be involved in every stage of the software development lifecycle.

Technical Leadership: Mentor junior engineers and provide expert guidance. Your communication skills will shine as you interact with internal teams and external stakeholders.

Cutting-Edge Technologies: Stay ahead of the curve by incorporating the latest advancements. Whether it’s C, C++, C#, Python, or agile methodologies, you’ll be at the forefront.

Architectural Vision: Evolve system architecture to meet future requirements. Define service level agreements (SLAs) and mitigate potential outages.

Data-Driven Solutions: Leverage your analytical prowess to conduct thorough data analytics. Communicate technical topics effectively across all levels.

The person hired in this role applies an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop and verify system software. Has extensive knowledge in programming languages such as C, C++ / C# or Python.  Creates, modifies & designs for complex problems and is able to execute all stages of the software development lifecycle.

What You’ll Work On

If hired, you will have a complete understanding of the software development process, participate in the development of the software process, can identify shortcomings in the process and recommend modifications to address process issues.

In addition:

• Provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers and serves as technical expert which can include ensuring that they understand their areas of responsibility.

• Serve as a mentor for less experienced engineers.

• Communicate with outside decision makers in a manner appropriate to the goals of the communication and has effective presentation skills.

• Are able to convey the implications of changes to internal and external stakeholders who have differing levels of understanding of the process.

• Integrate subsystems and components in total systems designs; develops specifications from customer requirements.

• Proactively takes on responsibility.

• Implements leading technologies in a technical field. Incorporates advancements in technology on current project.

• Develops High Level Design for entire software application, which includes ability to assign capabilities to components, negotiate interactions between components, and identify and resolve component interaction issues. Conducts reviews at the fe