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 your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
This position works out of our Tech Center in the Twin Cities, MN in the EP division.
In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.
As the Staff Software Engineer, you'll have the chance to be a critical contributor to building compelling products within Abbott’s Electrophysiology Division. The individual will participate in the development and deployment of system and software architecture to support our development programs. Design, develop, and document software applications embedded in diagnostic and interventional cardiology devices. Participate in all phases of the software lifecycle, including concept development, requirements, design, implementation, and testing.
What You’ll Work On
- Apply solid software design skills to develop medical devices to meet specific performance requirements and deliver on goals according to product development quality system. These activities include developing requirements specifications, design, implementation and testing of software and embedded software algorithms or/and general Linux applications and GUIs.
- As a team member, contribute significantly to completion of various project activities, from definition, identifying software functional requirements, implementation, code reviews, and final release according to medical device development processes.
- Create and implement software/test plans/protocols and generate test reports to ensure software/firmware design meets the specifications and quality system requirements.
- Work closely with cross-function team, including design reviews with QA, RA, test engineers, hardware engineers to ensure the firmware design meets the product requirements, including safety, reliability and serviceability. Be creative and innovative in the product development process.
- Make, recommend or justify critical technical decisions in product design. The decision should be based on broad investigation and testing.
- Document and transfer developed solutions to manufacturing team for mass production and provide technical support and sustaining development in launch phase.
Required Qualifications
- B.S. or M.S (Preferred) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- 6+ years of software development or equivalent (e.g., 4+ years of Ph.D. research experience in Computer Science).
- 5+ years of Object-Oriented Design, C++ and Qt Programming Experiences on Linux platform.
- Strong experience in design and implementation of cutting-edge graphics techniques and detailed knowledge of graphics hardware such as OpenGL shader language, CUDA, Nvidia GPU programming, OpenGL 2D/3D texture mapping, CPU/GPU performance profiling and characterization, and other general stream programming techniques.
- Excellent knowledge and experience in computational geometry algorithms.
- Excellent knowledge and experience in developing multithreaded real-time applications.
- Excellent analytical and mathematical skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
- Software development through full product life-cycle.
- Experience with creating and managing requirements and translating them into effective architectures and software design.
- An understanding of requirements for, and experience in medical device development.
- Excellent documentation skills (highly regulated development environment).
Preferred Qualifications
- GUI development experience: Qt/QML.
* 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.
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The base pay for this position is $95,000.00 – $190,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Product Development
DIVISION:
EP Electrophysiology
LOCATION:
United States > Minnesota > St. Paul > Tech Center : One St Jude Medical Drive
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes, 5 % 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.
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