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.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity:

Our Diagnostics business currently has an opportunity for the role of Software Engineer for our Irving, TX location. The primary function of this position is under general supervision, responsible for designing new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products. May execute less complex projects. May execute less complex projects.

What You’ll Work On:

• Responsible for applications development in an enterprise architecture environment using modeling tools.
• Responsible for design and documentation of complex technology solutions.
• Responsible for Design, develop, maintain, and enhance systems based on business requirements using approved technologies and coding standards
• Assist with work estimating based on requirements and technical designs.
• Perform design and code reviews and help maintain code quality, performance, and application responsiveness.
• Pro-actively look for ways to enhance the functionality and reliability of the application
• Responsible for investigation of issues at customer site and provide resolution.
• An individual contributor in this position may travel occasionally within the U.S. or abroad as required per project assignment.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline including Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering is required.
• 2+ years’ experience covering the entire software lifecycle (requirements definition through verification) in a team environment.
• Requires experience in Microsoft Visual C++ or .NET technology with emphasis in object-oriented analysis and design. Academic experience with UML or other formal object-oriented design notation is a must.
• An individual contributor in this position may travel occasionally within the U.S or abroad as required per project assignment.
• Must have strong interpersonal, analytical, problem solving and organizational skills, and the ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team.
• Database development requires experience with SQL database technology or equivalent.
• Experience with Microsoft Windows applications, QNX environment, hot fix deployments, and security software.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Medical application development.
• Experience with UML formal object-oriented design notation.
• User Interface development experience.
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. PERL, VBScript or Shell scripts etc.) and ability to automate repetitive tasks.
• Experience supporting software tools, tool evaluation and assessments.
• Experience in Python and other scripting.
• Experience in unit testing.
• Experience in Atlassian suite – Bamboo, JIRA, Bitbucket and/or Confluence.
• Knowledge of Agile SDLC.

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully:  http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx. Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.