Staff Computer Systems Software Engineer

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.

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

We are currently recruiting for a Staff Computer Systems Software Engineer to join the team in our St. Paul, MN location.

In this technical role, you will be a critical contributor to building compelling products within Abbott's Electrophysiology Division. In Abbott's Electrophysiology (EP) business, we're advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

You will participate in the development and deployment of product, infrastructure systems and software architecture to improve our development programs. This includes design, development, and documentation of product networking, operating systems and software delivery components for diagnostic and interventional cardiology devices, and participation in all phases of the software lifecycle, including concept development, requirements, design, implementation, and testing.

What You'll Work On

• Develop requirement specifications, design, implementation and testing of networking sub-systems and components used in medical devices and enterprise infrastructure environments used for connectivity.
• Implement and enhance remote connectivity solutions for updating and accessing medical devices using OTA and Linux screen sharing.
• Design, implement and troubleshoot enterprise application software.
• Provide deliverables according to the EP Quality System as applicable.
• Create and enhance performance of systems used to deliver software remotely to medical devices using Linux operating systems.
• Perform root cause analysis, including troubleshooting of build and deployment related issues
• Creating and maintaining documentation for Product and Enterprise Applications.
• Ensuring the continuous improvement and evolution of software work products
• Collaborate and work with a broad range of technologists, software developers and other support personnel, both within and outside of Abbott, for the maintenance and troubleshooting of applications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Biomed Engineering, Software Engineering or related discipline

• Experience administering and setting up Perforce, JIRA and Swarm

• Device end implementation work with Bomgar, BeyondTrust Support server, Axeda or ThingWorx and working with agent SDK to implement remote software delivery

• 5+ years of network engineering and/or Linux operating system internals/administration experience

• Demonstrated experience with configuring the networking sub-system for the Linux Operating System

• System programming experience using C and/or C++

• 6+ year of experience providing technical leadership and/or mentorship

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively communicate with multiple levels in the organization

• Previous experience working in a matrixed and geographically diverse business environment

• Proficient in documentation and diagramming tools like Visio.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced level proficiency with Cmake, C/C++ and/or Perl/Python/shell-scripting knowledge
• Extensive experience with network programming. Creating network equipment including switches, routers, load-balancers, network caching devices, etc.
• Prior work configuring load balancers, switches, routers
• Experience working in Data Centers with racking, cable management, power planning, remote KVM and built-in IPMI/ILO type systems
• System Admin work setting up servers to provide DNS/DHCP, IPA/LDAP, NTP service.
• Familiarity with file server protocols including NFS, SMB/CIFS and file server authentication.
• Experience with Operating System (OS) security enhancements - Linux and Windows.
• Enterprise application software deployment in on-premise Data Center or cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with digital signatures, certificates, encryption and malware prevention

Apply Now

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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.

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The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 - $198,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.