Principal AI Engineer

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 .
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the 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 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 position works out of our Santa Clara, CA location in the Corporate IT Organization supporting Digital Technology Services.

We are looking for a savvy, innovative AI Engineer to help us build artificial intelligence products. The ideal candidate has exceptional skills and experience in statistics and machine learning model development and will be responsible for designing and developing AI systems. They will be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data science needs for diverse range of products. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of thought leadership and applying machine learning to support Abbott’s next generation of products and data initiatives.

What You’ll Work On

• Develop and apply industry leading machine learning and deep learning systems to help solve business problems
• Apply natural language processing and generative AI, and customize large language models for use in product applications
• Develop and fine tune algorithms and models for time series and computer vision applications
• Lead design and coding of big data and machine learning systems
• Ability to translate business needs and goals into an AI approach and solution, and articulate findings to a non-technical audience
• Design model performance metrics and retraining schedule
• Assist with deploying models to public cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Mentor other engineers, remain aware of new developments in the field, and help build and grow the team

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field
• 10 years of leading the design and architecture of new and existing machine learning systems
• 7 years of experience of professional software development
• Experience with natural language processing and generative AI

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in computer science, mathematics, or another quantitative field
• 15 years of experience in model development for time series data, signal, image, and video processing
• Deep knowledge of math, probability, statistics, and algorithms
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
• Prior experience in the healthcare or other regulated industries
• Experience using the following software/tools:
  • Unsupervised and supervised learning methods
  • NLP and large language model frameworks such as spaCy and langchain
  • Machine learning frameworks such as Keras, PyTorch, or Tensorflow
  • Libraries such as numpy, scikit-learn, scipy and statsmodel
  • Programming languages: Python, .NET Core, Java

Apply Now

* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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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.

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