Staff Software Systems Engineer

ABOUT ABBOTT

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 107000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Staff Software Systems Engineer/ Senior Product Owner Haifa Israel

Leading an active lifestyle is important to the many people we Abbotts Electrophysiology and Heart Failure division were advancing the treatment of heart and vascular disease through breakthrough medical technologies in electrophysiology and heart failure allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Position Summary:

As a Staff Software Systems Engineer and Senior Product Owner you will provide technical leadership across software-intensive medical device systems while guiding product direction for Agile development teams. You will bridge product strategy systems engineering and software development to deliver innovative solutions supporting Abbotts Electrophysiology Mapping and Imaging portfolio across current and next-generation product platforms. You will be responsible for leading feature teams in the development of complex software applications that include signal processing algorithms and visualization in a real-time environment. You will champion cybersecurity-by-design and privacy-by-design principles throughout software development and product lifecycle activities. You will partner with Systems Engineering to translate system capabilities and architecture into software requirements interfaces and implementation strategies that enable scalable maintainable and compliant product solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead application feature definition activities working cross-functionally with Software Development Systems Engineering Human Factors Clinical Engineering and other stakeholders.
• Work in an Agile environment to define product vision and priorities in alignment with organizational strategy customer needs clinical workflows and technical roadmaps.
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features user stories and acceptance test criteria.
• Contribute to overall project success and define necessary activities to achieve desired business results.
• Identify quantify communicate and proactively manage technical and integration risks that may require cross-functional collaboration to resolve complex system interactions
• Lead decomposition of system requirements and architecture into software requirements interface definitions technical implementation strategies traceability and verification approaches throughout the product lifecycle.
• Play a key role in the software/hardware integration. Collaborate with Systems Verification Pre-Clinical engineering and other stakeholders to do root cause analysis and solution generation
• Review software designs to ensure alignment with system intent software requirements interface definitions cybersecurity requirements and product quality objectives.
• Drive technical decision-making through requirements analysis architecture decomposition risk assessment stakeholder feedback and data-driven evaluation of software design alternatives.
• Ensure that all activities conform to Quality and compliance requirements
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across multiple engineering disciplines influencing engineering practices technical direction and organizational capability development.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in engineering (Computer Electrical Computer Systems Systems or Software) Computer Science or related discipline
• 8 years of software engineering design and development or systems engineering experience
• Demonstrated expertise in C and object-oriented software development within complex systems.
• Experience defining software-level architecture managing technical tradeoffs and translating system-level requirements and architecture into effective software requirements interfaces and software designs.
• Experience serving as Product Owner or Product Manager within Agile development environments.
• Experience with Agile frameworks including Scrum SAFe or related methodologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate to all levels of the organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in engineering (Computer Electrical Computer Systems or Software) Computer Science or related discipline
• Demonstrated experience leading software development activities in compliance with IEC 62304 ISO 14971 FDA Quality System Regulations and cybersecurity guidance for medical devices.
• Medical device experience specifically supporting cardiac mapping and/or ablation systems
• Experience with medical imaging systems including echocardiography CT MRI fluoroscopy image processing image-guided therapy or image registration technologies.
• Well versed in draft FDA Cybersecurity Guidance and GDPR
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship
• Experience with complex electromechanical systems including hardware embedded firmware disposables and software

The base pay for this position is

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