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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 122,000 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.\nEmployees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.\nAn excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution\nTuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.\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.\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.\nThe Opportunity\nA senior individual-contributor engineering role that drives architecture and delivery for significant portions of Abbott's enterprise AI Platform. 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Expected to operate with substantial autonomy and to raise the technical bar for the team.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead the design of major platform capabilities (e.g., multi-provider model gateway, GenAI runtime, agent/model registries, evaluation and tracing pipelines) with minimal oversight, in partnership with the Tech Lead/Architect.\nMake and document architecture decisions and tradeoffs for the platform's control plane, paved-road SDKs, and developer experience, weighing scalability, security, cost, and operability.\nDrive platform observability and evaluation strategy, including distributed tracing, quality/drift/latency/cost signals, and standards other engineers build against.\nLead implementation of security, guardrails, and responsible-AI controls (PII/PHI handling, prompt-injection defenses, identity-on-behalf-of, policy enforcement) across platform services.\nOwn platform reliability engineering: define SLOs, lead incident response for high-severity issues, drive root-cause analysis, and improve resilience.\nSet engineering standards through architecture reviews, design docs, and code reviews; identify and resolve systemic technical risk before it blocks delivery.\nMake build-versus-buy and vendor recommendations with cost/tradeoff analysis, in partnership with the Tech Lead/Architect and Product Manager.\nMentor and technically develop mid-level and junior engineers; act as a technical lead on cross-team initiatives without formal people-management responsibility.\nPartner with the Product Manager, AI Platform to sequence roadmap, and directly engage senior stakeholders across AI/Agentic Engineering, Applied Data Science, and security on feasibility and design.\nEducation and Experience You’ll Bring\nRequired Qualifications\n8-10 years of software engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or infrastructure experience, with a track record of owning significant technical scope.\nHands-on experience designing and operating enterprise AI/GenAI platforms or comparable developer, data, or ML platforms in production at scale.\nStrong software engineering ability in Python and at least one of TypeScript, Go, or Java, including distributed systems, API design, testing, and secure SDLC.\nDeep technical understanding of at least two of:model gateways, GenAI runtimes, RAG, agent/model registries, evaluation, observability/tracing, guardrails, or platform governance.\nExperience with containers and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), infrastructure as code, CI/CD, cloud services, and production SLO/on-call practices, including leading incident response.\nBachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.\nDemonstrated ability to drive technical decisions with significant autonomy, influence engineers outside a direct reporting line, and communicate clearly with technical leadership.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building enterprise GenAI or agent platforms using capabilities such as multi-model routing, agent registries, prompt management, evaluation harnesses, and GenAI tracing.\nExperience in a highly regulated environment such as health tech, med-tech, or life sciences, with GxP, HIPAA, validation, and change-control constraints.\nExperience implementing security, responsible-AI, privacy, policy, or cost/FinOps controls for shared AI infrastructure.\nExperience with open standards and tooling such as MCP, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and cloud-native platform engineering practices; prior informal technical leadership or mentoring track record.\nMisc: This is an onsite role at Abbott location in IL. This is not a remote role/opportunity.\nApply Now\nLearn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:www.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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