Job Description
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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine ngersticks.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
THE OPPORTUNITY
This Senior Manager, AI Product Development, Digital Solutions position can work out of our Santa Clara, CA location.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Define the strategy to build a high performing AI product development team. Formulate team goals to support business growth objectives, performance management, recruit, develop and retain talent to support business needs.
Provide technical and functional leadership for a highly skilled Product AI team (data engineers, ML Ops engineers, software architects, software engineers) to accomplish team goals. Responsible for on-time and high-quality delivery of product focused AI solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams across Digital Solutions and Medical Device divisions.
Provide leadership to define development methodologies, build project plans, establish development estimate practices, project resource allocation, ensure relevant technology stack (development environment and toolchains) for continuous integration and continuous deployment.
Challenge and coach team members as well as external partners to push for optimal insights and optimized/tailored/high-impact scalable AI/ML solutions.
Develop team processes, prioritize work, develop team roadmaps and deliverables, and provide hands on coaching and review of work performed by team.
Define and ensure implementation of data science standards for exploration, development, and deployment.
Develop budget estimates, obtain capital resources to deliver business goals. Contribute to business unit and divisional strategy planning.
Provide mentorship and career development oversight for direct report employees.
Critical Success Indicators:
- Successfully built and commercialized multiple enterprise grade Product AI solutions and services from concept through launch using agile processes in both consumer tech and med tech.
- Demonstrated experience in creating AI/ML solutions that seamlessly fit into customer and patient desired workflows.
Qualifications
- Masters or PhD in relevant field (e.g., applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, applied statistics)
- 10+ years of software/technology product development experience, including 5–7+ years building AI/ML products.
- 5+ years of people management experience leading AI engineering or software teams.
- Experience leading AI engineering and software teams. Solid experience working on full-model development lifecycle.
- Strong customer centric approach with outstanding leadership and organizational skills.
- Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, actionable manner.
- In-depth knowledge of software architecture styles, design patterns, and architectural principles.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Java, Golang, C#, Python, or JavaScript.
- Deep experience in ML Ops tools for experiment tracking, model training, data versioning, annotation tools, model serving, monitoring and observability.
- Experience with GenAI and Agentic AI development infrastructure including grounding, RAG, MCP and prompt engineering.
- Experience developing AI products on cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), pipeline orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow).
- Proficient in tools like Azure ML SDK, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Spark, or related technologies.
- Strong understanding of database technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling principles.
- Significant experience working with agile software development methods, such as scrum and Kanban and working within CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience incorporating Security by Design principles into AI product development.
- Excellent technical, troubleshooting & mentoring skills.
- Strong verbal, written and presentation skills with ability to build trust.
- Results oriented with focused urgency, prioritization skills and ability to recognize/escalate issues appropriately.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to evolving technologies and industry trends.
Preferred:
- Medical Device experience.
- Experience working in an FDA-regulated business (e.g. validated software related to medical, pharmaceutical, or life sciences products).
- Solid understanding of the design thinking process, as well as a passion and know-how for influencing design strategy.
- Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience with FDA 510(k) submissions and clinical-grade ML product development.
- Background in signal processing, computer vision, or multimodal learning.
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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.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 www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal
The base pay for this position is
$148,700.00 – $297,300.00In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Product Development
DIVISION:
MD Medical Devices
LOCATION:
United States > Santa Clara : Building B - SC
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes, 5 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf
EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf
Numbers & Facts
| Location | South Carolina |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1910 |
| Website | http://www.abbott.com/ |
About Company
At Abbott, we are enthusiastic, energetic and committed to doing great work every day. Our employees are passionate about helping to translate science into lasting contributions to health care and the health of people worldwide. At the heart of our organization is our "Promise for Life"—a statement that embodies our company's commitment to employees, shareholders, local communities and the people who depend on our company and products to live healthier lives.
Vital to our promise is the speed in which we act, respond and deliver. As Abbott employees, we are ready to meet change and challenges head-on. As a result, we are a company that adapts quickly, and through our passion for innovation we are able to continually create a pipeline of products that help improve the length and quality of life around the world.
We are proud of our rich, more than 120-year history. We continue to be driven to advance leading-edge science and technologies, support diversity, focus on exceptional performance and earn the trust of those we serve.
Skills
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Architectural Servicesunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Budget Managementunmatched
- Business Growthunmatched
- Business Supportunmatched
- Career Developmentunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Coachingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Computer Systemsunmatched
- Computer Visionunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Modelingunmatched
- Data Scienceunmatched
- Database Technologyunmatched
- Design Patterns Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Diabetesunmatched
- Distributed Computingunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Dockerunmatched
- EEO Regulationsunmatched
- Employee Retentionunmatched
- English Lawunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- FDA (Food and Drug Administration)unmatched
- Facebookunmatched
- Go Programming Language (Golang)unmatched
- Health Planunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Industry/Trade Analysisunmatched
- International Healthunmatched
- Javaunmatched
- JavaScriptunmatched
- Kanbanunmatched
- Keyboardsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- MCP - Microsoft Certified Professionalunmatched
- Mathematicsunmatched
- Medical Diagnosisunmatched
- Medical Equipmentunmatched
- Medical Productsunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microservicesunmatched
- Microsoft C# (C Sharp)unmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- NoSQLunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- People Managementunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)unmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Lifecycleunmatched
- Product Positioningunmatched
- Programming Languagesunmatched
- Project Estimatesunmatched
- Project Planningunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Quality of Lifeunmatched
- Quantitative Analysisunmatched
- Resource Managementunmatched
- Retirement Planunmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- Scrum Project Management and Software Developmentunmatched
- Security Designunmatched
- Signal Processingunmatched
- Software Architectureunmatched
- Software Architecture Designunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Software Validationunmatched
- Statisticsunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Talent Managementunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Training Data Setsunmatched
- Tuition Reimbursementunmatched
- Twitterunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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