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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:\nWorking at Abbott\nAt 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:\nCareer development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.\n\nEmployees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.\n\nAn excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.\n\nTuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.\n\nA 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.\n\nA 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.\n\nThe Opportunity\nThe Sr Software Engineer hired in this role will work out of theIrving, TX location on site. This is in the Abbott Transfusion Medicine Business Division. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.\nWhat You’ll Work On\nThe Sr Software Engineer will help develop robotics control and scheduling applications used in a laboratory environment, automating the testing of donor blood and plasma. The ideal candidate will have experience in motion control and fluidics, utilizing servos and stepper motors to physically move mechanisms into position and valves and pumps to process fluids.\nHelp design and develop software that controls robotic medical devices, following established development processes and healthcare industry regulations.\n\nParticipate in software development activities, including designing, coding, testing, and validating software to ensure it performs safely and reliably.\n\nSupport testing efforts to verify that software meets requirements, follows quality standards, and complies with design specifications.\n\nCollaborate with engineers and other team members across multiple disciplines to develop software solutions, define requirements, and document design and testing activities.\n\nContribute to technical documentation, including design reviews, code reviews, software requirements, and testing results.\n\nDevelop and maintain low-level software that allows hardware components and devices to communicate and function properly using programming languages such as C and C++.\n\nDevelop application-level software that controls and automates robotic and mechanical systems, using state-based design methods to manage device behavior and performance.\n\nAssist in the evaluation of selected designs through testing and full documentation of the results.\n\nInvestigate on-market issues, determine appropriate corrections, and implement those corrections underneath our software engineering process.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nAssociate's degree with a 10+ years of related experience.\n\nBachelor's Degree with 6+ years of related experience.\n\nMaster's Degree with 4+ years of related experience.\n\nAdvanced experience in designing and developing complex software systems.\n\nAbility to provide guidance to junior team members.\n\nAdvanced knowledge in modern programming languages such as C/C++/C# or Python & agile methodologies.\n\nAdvanced level of understanding of test-driven methodologies.\n\nAdvanced level of knowledge with continuous integration & continuous development (CI/CD).\n\nDemonstrated success in technical proficiency, creativity, and independent thought.\n\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills.\n\nAbility to develop & design at the component-level.\n\nAdvanced level understanding of design patterns.\n\nStrong analytical & problem-solving skills.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n8 years of experience and a BS degree or 6 years with MS degree..\n\nExperience with unit testing and mocking environments, (Google Unit Test, Google Mock, etc)\n\n5 years experience with RTOS based applications (QNX, etc) and inter-process communications (persistent-publish-subscribe (PPS), application messaging/notifications, google protocol buffers, etc).\n\nSolid understanding of C++ and robotics and sensor control including state machine usage (boost statecharts, visual state, etc) and common algorithms (debouncing sensor inputs, slip detection, etc)\n\nUnderstanding of device level communications (as demonstrated by prior work).\n\nPreferred location: Irving, TX. Alternate location: Lake Forest, IL\n\nLearn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://abbottbenefits.com/\nFollow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. 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