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Software Engineer I

Abbott


Job Location:

La Jolla, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 81500 - 141300
Posted: 27 September 2026 (10 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 25 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 122000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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. Youll 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 a high employer contribution.
  • 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
This position works out of our La Jolla location in the Cancer Diagnostics Division.

As an Software Engineer I you will learn the basic concepts of all software components for Abbott Cancer Diagnostics. This role will contribute to the design development testing and maintenance of software components with provided mentorship and training as you develop your software development skills. While you are developing professional and technical expertise you will gain an understanding on how to resolve routine issues and problems. This role will work collaboratively on cross-functional agile teams to deliver high quality software.


Working on our Software Engineering teams you will contribute to the development enhancing and sustaining of software systems in a cross-functional team environment through adherence to established design control processes and good engineering practices. You will contribute to the design and creation of engineering specifications for building software programs based on basic knowledge of information systems and determine what development methodology to use after documenting software requirements.


Essential Duties

Include but are not limited to the following:

  • Contribute to the building of defined software features investigating and fixing bugs and writing tests related to basic software components with detailed instructions for all projects and work provided by leadership.
  • With general instruction drive projects of limited scope to completion resolving routine issue and problems within defined tasks.
  • Learn basic concepts of quality standards policies techniques and best practices.
  • Develop basic foundational theories skills and practices to accomplish work assignments of limited complexity.
  • Communicate status updates on individual project -based assignments to the project team.
  • Establish stable working internal relationships with peers SMEs and decision-makers.
  • Support and comply with the companys Quality Management System policies and procedures.
  • Uphold company mission and values through accountability innovation integrity quality and teamwork.
  • Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
  • Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelors Degree in Data Science Computer Science Information Systems Mathematics Bioinformatics or Engineering; or High School Diploma/General Education Degree and 4 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelors Degree.
  • Basic knowledge of software development and design and relevant domain specific skills (see below).
  • Understanding of object-oriented programming.
  • RESTful web services Relational Databases (Postgres SQL Server etc) and ORM technologies (JPA2 Hibernate Entity Framework etc).
  • Designing and developing apps that access and or utilize cloud-based frameworks (e.g. Azure Amazon AWS Services/SDKs etc.).
  • Agile development tools; including but not limited to JIRA and COnfluence.
  • Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
  • Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Next Generation Sequencing data analysis tools and workflows.
  • Familiarity with object-oriented languages such as Python (preferred) or C.

The base pay for this position is

$81500.00 $141300.00

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:
Product Development

DIVISION:
ONCO Cancer Diagnostics

LOCATION:
United States > La Jolla : Torrey Pines Science Park

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:
Standard

TRAVEL:
Yes 5 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No

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)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

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