Associate Software Engineer

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

This position works out of our Plymouth, MN location in the SH division.

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist.

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

The Associate Software Engineer will play a key role within a vibrant and high-performing R&D team that is redefining the treatment of structural heart disease. The incumbent will primarily support embedded software development for a critical medical device subsystem involving Bluetooth, NFC, logging, and message handling, and more. The engineer will also contribute to test method development, software documentation, and other workstreams as needed.

What You’ll Work On

• Follows instructions to add or change software code in pre-existing functions. Implements code in moderately complex components.
• Analyzes tasks and articulates/communicates concerns and findings related to coding errors. Prepares code reviews for code changes and contributes to code reviews.
• Develops, builds, tests, debugs and merges code as directed on low complexity and low risk tasks.
• Performs functional developer testing of the code produced.
• Demonstrates understanding existing product software designs. Contributes to design reviews.
• Follows defined software development lifecycle procedures and Abbott's quality system procedures.
• Participates in the review of impacts of component changes and determines approach to accommodate new capabilities.
• Documents through inline and commit comments the rationale behind key changes in the code.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or similar.
• Minimum 0-2 years of hands-on experience in firmware or embedded systems development experience.
•  Proficiency in C and/or C++ for embedded development, and Python for scripting or test automation.
• Familiarity with embedded systems fundamentals and microcontroller architectures.
• Experience with debugging tools such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, JTAD/SWD debuggers.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive and self-driven mindset.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or similar.
• Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS) such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS.
• Experience with communication protocols such as UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, etc.
• Proficiency with version control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab, etc.) and collaborative development workflows.
• Understanding of hardware design, schematics, and the ability to read component datasheets.
• Experience in development of Internet of Things (IOT) devices including wireless protocols such as BLE, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, and cloud integration.
• Familiarity with regulatory standards (IEC 62304, etc.) for medical device software development.
• Experience and/or familiarity with cardiac anatomy and interventional cardiology.

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