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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.

Firmware Engineer II

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.

· 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 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

The Firmware Engineer II position, at our Little Canada/St. Paul, MN location, will be responsible for designing firmware in electromechanical medical devices in Abbott’s Electrophysiology medical device division. You will be part of our fast growing, and highly visible product development team focused on planning and delivering of custom in-house embedded software applications used in Electrophysiology labs. We are looking for a detail-oriented engineer to apply engineering and scientific principles to the evaluation and solutions for technical problems.

The software you develop will greatly improve the quality of lives of patients across the world. Leading an active lifestyle is important to the many people we serve. In Abbott’s Electrophysiology division, we’re advancing the treatment of heart and vascular disease through breakthrough medical technologies, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

What You’ll Work On

• Participates in and supports the implementation, development, enhancements, and modifications to software, test, tool designs, cases, scripts, procedures, and/or code based on strategic analysis.

• Working from requirement specifications, develops, maintains, and updates detailed design and interface specifications

• Debugs, troubleshoots, and isolates software problems as well as offers strategic solutions, analysis, and advice regarding identified issues for future development

• Writes, updates, and executes test design cases, as well as procedures and reports results.

• Contributes to and supports gathering, analyzing, and validating requirements

• Contributes to and supports root-cause analysis of failures

• Working from requirement specifications, develops, maintains, and updates test requirements

• Supports implementation, enhancements, and modifications to test cases, procedures, scripts, and code.

• 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

• Ensures compliance with procedural and documentation requirements of Abbott, FDA and ISO design controls

• Supports and leads design reviews

• Solves complex and diverse technical problems by applying sound judgment, creativity, appropriate data analysis, and technical expertise.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Software Engineering/Computer Engineering

• 2+ years of development experience using C/C++ in an embedded environment for micro-controllers or linux systems

• Experience with MS Office

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in related field (education may substitute for some years of experience)

• Experience with Embedded Software Development within the regulated medical field.

• Linux Kernel, Yocto and Qt development a plus.

• Software engineering experience within a rigid development and configuration management process.

• Experience with unit and integration level testing and automated testing.

• Experience in programming languages such as Python, Java, SQL, C/C++, C#, Matlab

• Experience of low-level real time system development

• Experience with cybersecurity for embedded devices (threat modeling/CSRA or digital signing preferred)

• Previous experience in cardiac electrophysiology and/or cardiac rhythm management

• Familiarity with IEC 62304 for medical device software, and IEC 60601 family of standards

Apply Now

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://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. Connect with us at abbott.com, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers.

The base pay for this position is $60,000.00 – $120,000.00. 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