Staff Software Engineer

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.

• • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; an advanced degree is a plus.

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on automation, software quality, system integration, verification, or platform and tools engineering, including technical leadership of complex initiatives.

  • Deep hands-on experience designing test automation architecture, reusable frameworks, and CI/CD-integrated quality capabilities for complex software systems.

  • Demonstrated ability to integrate quality across requirements, design, implementation, integration, release, and maintenance using risk-based coverage, traceability, and measurable evidence.

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python, with the ability to design maintainable production-grade tools, services, and automation.

  • Hands-on experience using AI copilots, large language models, or agentic workflows in daily engineering work, with disciplined validation of accuracy, security, privacy, traceability, limitations, and appropriate human oversight.

  • A track record of setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and influencing decisions across teams and product lines.

  • Experience in regulated, safety-critical, or high-reliability software domains such as medical devices, aerospace, automotive, or similar industries.

  • Experience with connected products, embedded systems, mobile or desktop applications, cloud services, hardware-in-the-loop environments, or device simulators.

  • Familiarity with evaluating AI-assisted engineering workflows, including output quality, hallucination and bias risks, reproducibility, explainability, and ongoing performance monitoring.

  • Strong systems thinking with an emphasis on reliability, observability, traceability, explainability, human oversight, and the ability to influence without authority.

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