Sr. Embedded Software Engineer

Job ID: 31152383Company: Abbott LaboratoriesLocation: United States - California - AlamedaJob Type: Full timeCategory: Research & DevelopmentIndustry: HealthcarePosted Date: 2026-08-19Abbott 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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.The Opportunity:The Sr Embedded Software Engineer oversees the design, development, and validation of software for embedded systems, ensuring compliance with FDA requirements. They play a crucial role in software design, coding, and validation, address moderate scope problems, and participate in software development activities under guidance and mentoring junior engineers. Adherence to FDA-compliant Design Control procedures and proficiency in software implementation are key aspects of the role.What you’ll work onDesign and implement software in current programming languages (e.g. C, C++, C#, python).Working from requirement specifications, develops, maintains, and updates detailed design and interface specifications.Participates in and supports the implementation, development, enhancements, and modifications to software source code, scripts, and procedures.Debugs, troubleshoots, and isolates software problems as well as offer strategic solutions, analysis, and advice regarding identified issues for future development.Assist in the evaluation of selected designs through testing and full documentation of the results.Work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.Exercise judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.Participate in software development, verification and validation following the guidance of software lead.Follow approved Design Control procedures for software development in accordance with FDA guidelines.Contributes to and supports writing, updating, developing and maintaining Hazard/Risk analysis specifications.Contributes to and supports root-cause analysis of failures.Required QualificationsMinimum 7 years of related experience or Master's Degree with 4+ years of related experienceExcellent written and verbal communication skillsStrong familiarity with current development tools (IDEs, debuggers, unit test frameworks)Preferred QualificationsExperience with middleware frameworks, protocol stacks, or system-level software. Examples: USB stack, BLE stack, TCP/IP, file systems, etc.Experience building end-to-end systems (firmware middleware application)Experience testing software is a plusKnowledge of design controls and regulations for medical device development is a plusKnowledge of the principles of quality software engineering as described by software lifecycle development processes that are consistent with ISO, IEEE, or other FDA recognized standards is a plusExperience with software development life cycle processes is a plusThe base pay for this position is $100,000.00 – $200,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.Skillsroot cause analysisfile systemsunit testingmiddleware frameworksieee standardsdata communicationfirmware developmentc# programmingsoftware development life cycleprotocol stacksiso standardssoftware validationhazard analysisembedded software developmentdevice driversc++ programmingquality software engineeringdebuggingc programming