Head of AI & Data Platform, Health Tech Leader

Abbott (abbottcareers2 board); United States; On-site; USD 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical coverage in HIP

Excellent retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Global career development

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a hands-on Head of AI and Data Platform to define the technical vision and lead construction of AI, ML, and data infrastructure for Lingo’s biosensing platform. You will architect scalable systems, build a global engineering team, and partner with product to deliver AI-powered health insights at consumer scale.

You’ll work in a regulated environment, shaping architecture standards, governance, and observability to ensure reliable, secure, and compliant AI solutions across

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical architecture for Lingo's AI and data platform, including biosensor data ingestion pipelines, real-time and batch processing infrastructure, feature stores, model serving layers, and data lake design.
• Drive the architecture and engineering execution of AI-powered product features, including personalized metabolic health insights, predictive analytics from CGM data, LLM-based conversational health experiences, and on-device ML inference from biosensor data.
• Establish engineering standards for AI system design, including model integration patterns, RAG pipeline architecture, prompt engineering practices, evaluation and observability frameworks, and responsible AI guardrails appropriate for a regulated health context.
• Lead the engineering execution of ML model development, training, evaluation, and deployment pipelines, ensuring models reach production reliably, safely, and with the observability required to detect drift and degradation.
• Build and own MLOps infrastructure including experiment tracking, model registry, automated retraining pipelines, A/B testing frameworks, and model monitoring for production AI systems.
• Partner with Data Science and Product teams to translate model research and product requirements into scalable, production-ready AI systems that perform reliably at consumer scale.
• Define standards for LLM integration, including prompt management, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation harnesses, latency and cost optimization, and safety guardrails for health-related conversational AI.
• Ensure AI and ML systems maintain ongoing alignment with regulatory requirements including HIPAA, GDPR, and FDA software guidance, in close partnership with Regulatory Affairs, Legal, and Quality Assurance.
• Define, manage, and report on engineering OKRs, KPIs, and delivery metrics for the AI and Data Platform function, presenting progress and insights to senior stakeholders.

Job description

Abbott is seeking a hands-on Head of AI and Data Platform to define the technical vision and lead construction of AI, ML, and data infrastructure for Lingo’s biosensing platform. You will architect scalable systems, build a global engineering team, and partner with product to deliver AI-powered health insights at consumer scale.

You’ll work in a regulated environment, shaping architecture standards, governance, and observability to ensure reliable, secure, and compliant AI solutions across