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 Embedded Software Engineer II.   Candidate responsibilities include delivering of custom in-house software developed for Implantable Device Firmware projects that meet both short term and long-term goals of customers.  Create verification test plans and scripts that ensure software meets requirements.

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 in technical brainstorming and project status meetings.
• 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

• 2 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 deliver high quality deliverables based on the project schedule.
• 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 programming languages such as C, C++,  and Python.
• Experience of low-level real time system development, such as interrupts, hardware interfaces, memory optimization, and device drivers. 
• 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 a plus.
• Experience with SVN, git, and JIRA. 
• Experience with ARM, Arduino and FPGA development a plus.

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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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