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Abbott Laboratories

Sr. Embedded Software Engineer

milpitas, CA

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About this opportunity

Abbott Laboratories lists this Sr. Embedded Software Engineer opportunity in milpitas, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

The Opportunity:

The Sr Embedded Software Engineer located in our Milpitas, California location oversees the design, development, and validation of software for embedded systems, ensuring compliance with FDA requirements. They manage a team of software engineers. Playing a crucial role in software design, coding, and validation, addressing moderate scope problems, and participate in software development activities under guidance and mentoring junior engineers. Adherence to FDA-compliant Design Control procedures and proficiency in software implementation are key aspects of the role.

What you’ll work on

Design and implement software in current programming languages (e.g. C, C++, C#, python).

Manage a small software team, assist in developing and mange project schedules and in performance reviews

Working from requirement specifications, develops, maintains, and updates detailed design and interface specifications.

Participates in and supports the implementation, development, enhancements, and modifications to software source code, scripts, and procedures

Debugs, troubleshoots, and isolates software problems as well as offer strategic solutions, analysis, and advice regarding identified issues for future development.

Assist in the evaluation of selected designs through testing and full documentation of the results.

Exercise judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.

Participate in software development, verification and validation following the guidance of software lead.

Follow approved Design Control procedures for software development in accordance with FDA guidelines.

Contributes to and supports writing, updating, developing and maintaining Hazard/Risk analysis specifications.

Contributes to and supports root-cause analysis of failures.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar with a minimum 7 years of related experience or Master's Degree with 4+ years of related experience

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Strong familiarity with current development tools (IDEs, debuggers, unit test frameworks)

Preferred Qualification

Experience in managing a team.

Knowledge of the principles of quality software engineering as described by software lifecycle development processes that are consistent with ISO, IEEE, or other FDA recognized standards or regulated industry is a plus

Experience with middleware frameworks, protocol stacks, or system-level software. Examples: USB stack, BLE stack, TCP/IP, file systems, etc.

Experience building end-to-end systems (firmware → middleware → application)

Experience testing software is a plus

Knowledge of design controls and regulations for medical device development is a plus

Experience with software development life cycle processes is a plus

The base pay for this position is $114,000.00 – $228,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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Worksite address

milpitas, CA, 95035, US

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