Staff AI Platform Engineer

Abbott; Illinois; In loco; USD 129.000 - 259.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health coverage (HIP)

Retirement plan with employer contrib

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Excellent wellbeing programs

Descrizione del lavoro

Abbott in Illinois seeks a senior software engineer to drive architecture and delivery for significant portions of the enterprise AI Platform. You will set technical direction, partner with the Tech Lead/Architect, and serve as a primary escalation point for consuming teams.

You will mentor engineers, define SLOs, and collaborate with the Product Manager and senior stakeholders across AI/Agentic Engineering, Applied Data Science, and security to ensure feasible, secure designs.

Competenze

• 8–10 years of software engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or infrastructure experience with significant scope.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise AI/GenAI platforms in production at scale.
• Strong software engineering ability in Python and at least one of TypeScript, Go, or Java, with API design and secure SDLC.
• Deep technical understanding of model gateways, GenAI runtimes, RAG, agent/model registries, evaluation, observability/tracing, guardrails, or platform governance.
• Experience with containers and orchestration like Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, cloud services, and production SLO/on-call practices.

Mansioni

• Lead the design of major platform capabilities with minimal oversight, in partnership with the Tech Lead/Architect.
• Document architecture decisions and tradeoffs for the platform's control plane and SDKs.
• Drive platform observability, evaluation strategy, including tracing, signals, and cost awareness.
• Lead security, guardrails, and responsible-AI controls across platform services.
• Own platform reliability engineering: define SLOs, lead incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and improve resilience.
• Set engineering standards via architecture reviews, design docs, and code reviews.
• Make build-versus-buy recommendations in partnership with Product Manager.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers and act as a technical lead on cross-team initiatives.
• Collaborate with Product Manager to sequence roadmap and engage senior stakeholders on feasibility and design.

Conoscenze

Python

TypeScript

Go

Java

Distributed systems

APIs

Security SDLC

Kubernetes

Formazione

Bachelor's degree

Strumenti

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Descrizione del lavoro

This job is available in 2 locations Category Information Technology

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At 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:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A 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.
• A 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.

The Opportunity

A senior individual-contributor engineering role that drives architecture and delivery for significant portions of Abbott's enterprise AI Platform. This role sets technical direction for one or more platform capability areas, partners closely with the Tech Lead/Architect on reference architecture decisions, and is a primary technical escalation point for consuming teams. Expected to operate with substantial autonomy and to raise the technical bar for the team.

What You'll Do

• Lead 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.
• Make and document architecture decisions and tradeoffs for the platform's control plane, paved-road SDKs, and developer experience, weighing scalability, security, cost, and operability.
• Drive platform observability and evaluation strategy, including distributed tracing, quality/drift/latency/cost signals, and standards other engineers build against.
• Lead implementation of security, guardrails, and responsible-AI controls (PII/PHI handling, prompt-injection defenses, identity-on-behalf-of, policy enforcement) across platform services.
• Own platform reliability engineering: define SLOs, lead incident response for high-severity issues, drive root-cause analysis, and improve resilience.
• Set engineering standards through architecture reviews, design docs, and code reviews; identify and resolve systemic technical risk before it blocks delivery.
• Make build-versus-buy and vendor recommendations with cost/tradeoff analysis, in partnership with the Tech Lead/Architect and Product Manager.
• Mentor and technically develop mid-level and junior engineers; act as a technical lead on cross-team initiatives without formal people-management responsibility.
• Partner 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.

Education and Experience You’ll Bring

Required Qualifications

• 8–10 years of software engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or infrastructure experience, with a track record of owning significant technical scope.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise AI/GenAI platforms or comparable developer, data, or ML platforms in production at scale.
• Strong software engineering ability in Python and at least one of TypeScript, Go, or Java, including distributed systems, API design, testing, and secure SDLC.
• Deep technical understanding of at least two of model gateways, GenAI runtimes, RAG, agent/model registries, evaluation, observability/tracing, guardrails, or platform governance.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), infrastructure as code, CI/CD, cloud services, and production SLO/on-call practices, including leading incident response.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical decisions with significant autonomy, influence engineers outside a direct reporting line, and communicate clearly with technical leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building enterprise GenAI or agent platforms using capabilities such as multi-model routing, agent registries, prompt management, evaluation harnesses, and GenAI tracing.
• Experience in a highly regulated environment such as health tech, med-tech, or life sciences, with GxP, HIPAA, validation, and change-control constraints.
• Experience implementing security, responsible-AI, privacy, policy, or cost/FinOps controls for shared AI infrastructure.
• Experience with open standards and tooling such as MCP, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and cloud-native platform engineering practices; prior informal technical leadership or mentoring track record.

Misc: This is an onsite role at Abbott location in IL. This is not a remote role/opportunity.

• Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com
• Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

The base pay for this position is $129,300.00 – $258,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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

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

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

Job Id 31164553 Medical surveillance Not Applicable Division BTS Business Technology Services Travel Yes, 10 % of the Time Additional Location United States > Chicago : Willis Tower Building 233 S Wacker Dr. Significant work activities Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day); Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Job available in 2 locations

• United States - Chicago : Willis Tower Building 233 S Wacker Dr.

We support our colleagues around the world as they care for themselves and their families with offerings tailored to their unique needs.

We strive to provide environments where all employees feel welcome and able to bring their full selves to work. To do this we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion across Abbott.

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We will notify you about relevant positions, and keep you in mind when we have interesting opportunities.

An Equal Opportunity Employer Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We provide reasonable workplace accommodations. U.S. residents only: To request accommodation, please call 224-667-0340or email [e-mail]. Abbott is committed to pay equity and transparency. Compensation is determined using objective, job-related, and gender-neutral criteria in compliance with applicable laws and local regulations.