Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. This full-time, onsite position is based in Sylmar, CA within Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, where we focus on innovative technologies that improve how doctors treat heart arrhythmias.

The Sr. Software Engineer plans and delivers custom in-house software and hardware tools developed for Implantable Device Firmware projects to meet both short-term and long-term customer goals; manages delivery of tool projects that satisfy customer needs for functionality, performance, time, and cost; and reports project progress to upper management and customers.

Responsibilities

• 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 provides 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 participates in and leads 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics).
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience in software development, or 4+ years with a master's degree in a related field.
• Sufficient software and hardware knowledge and experience to understand technical solutions toward meeting customers' needs.
• Ability to plan project deliverables and manage the project team toward meeting schedule and cost, while delivering high-quality product.
• Ability to communicate technical solutions and issues clearly and adequately to management and project members.
• Ability to identify initiatives for process improvement.
• Ability to capture and analyze customer needs, and understand design and solutions.
• Experience with MS Office tools.
• Experience in Firmware/Software full-cycle development and the Python, C/C++ programming languages.
• Experience with operating systems such as Windows and Linux.
• Experience in 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, 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 Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Career development with an international company.
• Free medical coverage for employees via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO (participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for free coverage in the next calendar year).
• Excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit — an affordable, convenient path to a bachelor's degree.
• Company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries and named one of the most admired companies by Fortune.
• Recognized as one of the best big companies to work for, and a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Pay

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.