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.

ABOUT ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS

The key to successful treatment and full recovery is often fast, accurate diagnosis. Abbott’s life-changing tests and diagnostic tools provide insights that enable smarter, faster decisions and transform the way the world is managing health.

Our pioneering technology spans the world of healthcare operations — with medical diagnostic instruments, tests, automation and informatics solutions for hospitals, reference labs, blood centers, emergency departments, physician offices and clinics.

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 a Principal Software Engineer. This position can be based in our Irving, TX office. The primary function of this position is to support system development for medical Instruments. The candidate will be a dynamic, and innovative technical leader capable of defining and designing complex, cross-cutting software architecture, and design patterns..

What You’ll Work On

• Provides program and project level architectures for embedded systems, applications, integrations, and technology.
• Defines software design architecture for a subsystem, identifying features, components, and their internal and external interactions.
• Defines system level design and technology specific implementation patterns drawing upon industry best practices. Defines third party software component/integration strategy.
• Leads cross-functional teams to design and deliver software solutions that deliver business value.
• Designs and modifies components of new and existing Software systems.
• Manages the architecture governance activities associated with ensuring solution compliance with standards and best-practices.
• Provides overall technical leadership support in use case analysis, feature definition, user needs and functional and non-functional requirements.
• Identifies risks and proactively works to remediate technical debt.
• Contributes and leads the development of architectural frameworks and standards.
• Provides technical guidance to application development teams. Consults on integration activities.
• Conducts reviews and analyses organizational needs and goals to develop and implement applications.
• Drives efficiency through standardization, automation, documentation, and cross-training.
• Ability to handle a high degree of ambiguity; adapting to changing priorities; continuously finding areas to deliver value.
• Responsible to develop, evaluate and analyze design constrains, trade-offs and detailed system and security design.
• Responsible for working within a collaborative, multi-discipline environment to produce software deliverable products as part of an Agile team.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Minimum Qualifications       

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or similar curriculum.
• 10+ years of experience in programming in C, C++, and embedded C.
• 5+ years of experience in embedded and RTOS platform (Linux, QNX, VxWorks).
• Must have strong software architecture and design skills, and an excellent understanding of object-oriented Programming concepts.
• Must be able to apply SDLC concepts and have a proven track record of delivering solid, robust applications.
• Experience in working in multilayer architecture and multiple subsystem environments.
• Expert knowledge of data structures, algorithm and inter process communication.
• Expert knowledge of networking (e.g., TCP/IP), wireless, and Ethernet protocols.
• Ability to understand PCB schematics and having general hardware knowledge to enable bringing up and debugging new PCBs.
• Experience with device driver development (Flash, EEPROM, CAN, SPI, ADC, Ethernet etc.).
• Excellent knowledge of UML and other modeling methods.
• Experience in refactoring complex monolithic codebases.
• Experience writing automated tests (unit, component, integration, and end-to-end).
• Experience in configuration management, continuous integration and deployment tools.
• Experience in agile and lean delivery concepts and methodologies, and a history of successfully applying this knowledge to deliver applications. 
• Experience in working in continuous integration and deployment environment.
• 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.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in working in medical instrument development or controlled and heavy regulated environment.
• Experience in IOT and edge computing.
• Experience in communications protocols (e.g. USB, I2C, SPI, UART etc.).
• Ability to understand FPGA architecture and design.
• Experience in GUI development (QT).
• Experience in Atlassian suite – Bamboo, JIRA, Bitbucket and Confluence.

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. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott, and Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.                                                  

The base pay for this position is $109,300.00 – $218,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.