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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
- Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine ?ngersticks.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement, the student debt program and 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
THE OPPORTUNITY
This Senior Manager, AI Product Development, Digital Solutions position can work out of our Santa Clara, CA location.
WHAT YOU?LL DO
Define the strategy to build a high performing AI product development team. Formulate team goals to support business growthobjectives, performance management,recruit,developandretaintalent to support business needs.
Provide technical and functional leadership for a highly skilledProduct AI team (data engineers, MLOpsengineers,software architects, software engineers) toaccomplishteam goals.?Responsible for on-time and high-quality delivery of product focused AI solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams across Digital Solutions and Medical Device divisions.
Provide leadership to define development methodologies, build project plans,establishdevelopment estimate practices, project resource allocation, ensure relevant technology stack (development environment and toolchains) for continuous integration and continuous deployment.
Challenge and coach team members as well as external partners to push foroptimalinsights and optimized/tailored/high-impact scalableAI/MLsolutions.
Develop team processes, prioritize work, develop team roadmaps and deliverables, and provide hands on coaching and review of work performed by team.
Define and ensure implementation of data science standards for exploration, development, and deployment.
Develop budget estimates, obtain capital resources to deliver business goals. Contribute to business unit and divisional strategy planning.
Provide mentorship and career development oversight for direct report employees.
Critical Success Indicators:
- Successfully built and commercialized multiple enterprise grade Product AI solutions and services from concept through launch using agile processes in both consumer tech and med tech.
- Demonstrated experience in creatingAI/MLsolutions that seamlessly fit into customer and patient desired workflows.
Qualifications
- Masters or PhD in relevant field (e.g., applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, applied statistics)
- 10+ years of software/technology product development experience, including 5?7+ years building AI/ML products.
- 5+ years of people management experience leading AI engineering or software teams.
- Experience leadingAI engineering and softwareteams. Solid experience working onfull-model developmentlifecycle.
- Strong customer centric approach with outstanding leadership and organizational skills.
- Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, actionable manner.
- In-depth knowledge of software architecture styles, design patterns, and architectural principles.
- Proficiencyin one or more programming languages, such as Java,Golang,C#, Python, or JavaScript.
- Deep experience in ML Ops tools for experiment tracking, model training, data versioning, annotation tools, model serving,monitoringand observability.
- Experience with GenAI and Agentic AI development infrastructure including grounding, RAG, MCP and prompt engineering.
- Experiencedeveloping AI products oncloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud),containerization technologies (e.g.,Docker, Kubernetes), pipeline orchestration tools (e.g.Airflow).
- Proficient in tools like Azure ML SDK, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Spark, or related technologies.
- Strong understanding of database technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling principles.
- Significant experienceworking with agile software development methods, such as scrum andKanbanand working within CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience incorporating Security by Design principles into AI product development.
- Excellent technical,troubleshooting& mentoringskills.
- Strong verbal, written and presentation skills withabilityto build trust.
- Results oriented with focused urgency, prioritizationskillsand ability to recognize/escalate issues appropriately.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to evolving technologies and industry trends.
?
Preferred:
- Medical Device experience.
- Experience working in an FDA-regulated business (e.g.validated software related to medical, pharmaceutical, or life sciences products).
- Solid understanding of the design thinking process, as well as a passion andknow-howfor influencing design strategy.
- Experience withmicroservicesarchitecture and distributed systems.
- Experience with FDA 510(k) submissions and clinical-grade ML product development.
- Background in signal processing, computer vision, or multimodal learning.
#software
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:
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.
Connect with us at , on Facebook at and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal
The base pay for this position is $148,700.00 ? $297,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
Never miss an opportunity! Create an alert based on the job you applied for.
