Staff Engineer, Software

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.

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 Staff Software Engineer position works onsite out of our Sylmar CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

What You’ll Work On

• Demonstrates expert knowledge and proficiency of the complete software development process.
• Design/Implement software in current OOPs programming languages such as Java with a good understanding of object-oriented programming principles, data structures, state machines, synchronization and multi-thread concepts.
• Oversee end-to-end implementation of all internal and external interfaces, implementation patterns and unit, integration and performance testing strategy for all features in one or more subsystems.
• Debugs, troubleshoots, and isolates software problems as well as provide strategic solutions, analysis, and contribute to process/design improvements.
• Independently manage the product development, issue tracking and design description process with input from others. Communicates with internal stakeholders on decisions that impact their team.
• Conduct design reviews, maintain/update design documents and address review feedback. Also contribute and support reviews held by peers on related projects and provide feedback.
• Assess areas impacted by new feature requests and determine approach to accommodate new capabilities.
• Contribute to project planning by providing effort estimates for implementing new features/ functionality.
• Continually improve the release processes to increase its reliability, capabilities, and speed.
• Provides technical feasibility assessment on emerging user needs and product requirements, leads proof-of-concepts and proposes optimal design solutions compatible with the software system architecture.
• Leads root cause investigations on high-complexity or high-severity issues.
• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.
• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• 8-10 years of related experience, or master’s degree with 7 years of related experience.
• Strong hands-on programming/coding knowledge of Java.
• Experience with visual modeling, graphical user interfaces, multi-threading, formal software development methodologies, and source code management.
• Strong knowledge with continuous integration & continuous development
• Strong verbal and written communications.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Medical device product development knowledge.
• Ability to independently learn/explore existing system functionality.
• Experience with cross platform programming languages like React Native, Xamarin, Kotlin is a plus.
• Progressively more responsible work experience in a range of software engineering disciplines using a variety of programming methods.
• Intermediate to moderate understanding of Linux Operating system.
• Demonstrated success in technical proficiency, creativity, and independent thought.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills. Ability to debug and arrive at solutions.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks.
  
  

Apply Now

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The base pay for this position is $112,000.00 – $224,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.