Senior Software 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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Our location in Sylmar, CA currently has an fulltime onsite opportunity for a Sr. 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.

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.

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 DO

• 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 requirements 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.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in technical field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience in software development or 4+ years of relevant experience with a master’s degree in a related field.
• Sufficient software and hardware knowledge and experience to understand technical solution towards meeting customers’ need.
• Ability to plan 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/Software full cycle development and the Python, C/C++ programming language.
• Experience of operating systems such as Windows / Linux.
• 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.
• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio C#.
• Experience with AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude code, Codex etc.

Preferred

• Experience working with teams cohesively from multiple sites.
• Experience in programming languages such as C, C++,  and Python.
• Experience of multi-tasking systems and real-time application development (ex. threading, semaphores, processes, etc.) a plus.
• Experience and knowledge of software development process required for medical device industry.
• Experience with SVN, git, and JIRA. 
• Experience with Arduino and FPGA development a plus.

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

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

$90,000.00 – $180,000.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

DIVISION:

CRM Cardiac Rhythm Management

LOCATION:

United States > Sylmar : 13150 Telfair Avenue

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 10 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

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.EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf