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.
• 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

Our location in Sunnyvale, CA currently has an opportunity for a Staff Software Engineer.   Candidate responsibilities include planning and delivering of custom in-house software/ hardware tools developed for Implantable Device Firmware projects towards meeting both short term and long-term goals of customers; managing delivery of tool projects that meet customers’ needs in terms of functionalities, performance, time, and cost; reporting progress of project to upper management and customers.

A healthy heart is essential to good health. That's why we're committed to advancing treatments for people with cardiovascular disease. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, our breakthrough medical technologies help restore people's health so they can get back to living their best lives, faster. We focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

What You’ll Work On

• Working from requirement specifications, develops, maintains, and updates software according to the project schedule.

• Supports implementation, new creation, enhancements, and modifications to software/Firmware applications.

• Debugs, troubleshoots, and isolates software problems and offers strategic advice regarding identified issues for future development.

• Develops tests, and documents design concepts (i.e. parameters, structure, and core components).

• Presents at design reviews; documents and resolves issues as directed.

• Contributes to and supports reviews held by other engineers on related projects and provide useful feedback.

• Contributes to and supports a variety of development and test phase efforts.

• May write and update requirement specifications for an assigned area.

• Reviews project deliverables such as specifications, code, and test/tool procedures for feasibility, thoroughness, clarity, correctness, and accuracy.

• Actively participate and lead meetings including project status, technical brainstorming, software work request dispositioning, and training.

• 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

• 10 years of experience in software development (combination of programming-heavy coursework, school projects, freelance work and professional experience)

• Sufficient software and hardware knowledge and experience to understand technical solution towards meeting customers’ need.

• Ability to plan for project deliverables and manage the project team towards meeting schedule and cost, as well as delivering product of high quality.

• Ability to communicate technical solutions and issues clearly and adequately to management as well as members on the project.

• Ability to identify initiatives for process improvement.

• Ability to capture and analyze customer’s needs, to understand design and solution towards solutions.

• Experience with MS Office tools. 

• Experience in Firmware full cycle development including bringing up a new hardware platform.

• Experience in programming languages such as C, C++,  and Python.

• Experience of operating systems such as Windows.

• Experience of low-level real time system development, such as interrupts, hardware interfaces, memory optimization, and device drivers.

• Experience with source control and issue tracking tools for software development. 

• Knowledge of hardware breadboards, hardware design documentation and PC hardware system interfaces and embedded systems.

• Associates (± 13 years) or Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)

• Or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Preferred

• BS/BA degree  or MS degree in CS, EE, or related field

• Experience working with teams cohesively from multiple sites.

• Experience of multi-tasking systems and real-time application development (ex. threading, semaphores, processes, etc.) a plus.

• Experience and knowledge of software development process as required for medical device industry.

• Experience with SVN, git, and JIRA. 

• Experience with ARM, Arduino and FPGA development a plus.

Apply Now

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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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.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

     

DIVISION:

CRM Cardiac Rhythm Management

        

LOCATION:

United States > Sunnyvale : 645 Almanor Ave

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 5 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

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