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Abbott Senior Embedded Software Engineer in Pleasanton, California
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 Title
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
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 (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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
We are recruiting for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our Abbott Heart Failure team in Pleasanton, CA, where we are focused on helping people with heart failure manage their health and ultimately change and save lives.
The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will be primarily working on the CardioMEMS HF portfolio, which remotely monitors changes in pulmonary artery (PA) pressure, an early indicator of the onset of worsening heart failure, to aid physicians in preventing worsening heart failure, lower heart failure mortality rates, and improve quality of life for our heart failure patients. The role is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of device software for new products and changes and improvements to device software for existing products. Will work with cross-functional teams – Quality, regulatory, EE, Systems, product performance group, and Clinical engineering teams as needed.
Primary Responsibilities:
Perform software unit requirement analysis.
Prepare software unit architecture and designs.
Implement software units, perform peer code review, and create software unit tests.
Detect, report, investigate, disposition, and fix product defects.
Assist with escalated customer complaints investigations.
Performing timely, detailed CAPA engineering tasks like assessing issue descriptions, reviewing CAPA data sources, assisting with root cause analysis, and quality problem-solving.
Work with cross-functional teams – Quality, regulatory, EE, Systems, and Clinical teams.
Follow established guidelines for and participate in the review of product engineering artifacts (e.g., specifications, designs, test descriptions, implementations, tests, records, reports, etc.).
Assist in the preparation and review of product and software development plans and reports as required.
Under minimal direction, participate in the review and update of system specifications, designs, test descriptions, risk analysis, verification test procedures, and related documentation.
Travel- approximately 5-10%
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
5+ years of overall experience in software product development and 2+ years in the medical device industry.
C/C++ language embedded software experience.
GUI design and development experience with Qt/QML and Qt Widgets.
Operating systems like Linux or RTOS.
Experience with hardware, MCU development kits, and electrical test equipment.
Experience with Wi-Fi, Cellular, NFC or BLE.
Experience with selecting the best MCU or MPU for a product.
Experience developing test cases in C++ GTest framework or similar frameworks.
Experience developing test cases in C Ceedling or similar frameworks.
Understanding and appreciation of SDLC process and tools (e.g. JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence, DOORS, CMake.)
Experience performing risk management analysis of software (e.g. SW FMEA techniques).
Knowledge within the medical device industry including IEC 62304 quality requirements and regulatory requirements or similar regulated experience.
Proven collaboration with cross-functional/multi-disciplinary teams.
Familiar with good documentation practices (software Design, data analysis, and reports)
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Advanced degree in software engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline, or related discipline with 2+ years of work experience in the medical device industry.
Experience with static code analysis tools such as Coverity.
Experience working in an Agile development environment.
Experience with Agile development methodologies.
Experience with Class II or III implantable medical device software development.
Strong knowledge of FDA and international regulatory requirements for medical device software
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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 (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)
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.
The base pay for this position is $95,500.00 – $190,900.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com
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