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# Senior AI Engineer

- **Company:** Abbott Laboratories
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Code Coverage, Cyber Security, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Sharing, Software Design Patterns, Linux, DevOps, Document Management Systems, Distributed Systems, Medical Software, PostgreSQL, Machine Learning, Microsoft SQL Server, Systems Integration, Feature Engineering, Concurrency, Backend, Information Technology, Low Latency, Restful APIs, Software Version Control, Microservices
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/senior-ai-engineer-illinois-usa-58855793

## About the Role

_ partners * Collaborate cross-functionally with product, quality, regulatory, security, DevOps, and engineering teams * Work with InfoSec on secure, standards-aligned solutions * Write clean, testable code with strong test coverage * Contribute to architecture, strategy, and reusable design patterns * Build internal tools, dashboards, and automation to improve productivity and release confidence * Document system design with diagrams and specifications * Participate in agile development and lead code/design reviews * Stay current with AI, cloud, healthcare trends and apply relevant innovations * Demonstrate ownership, technical judgment, collaboration, and continuous learning Tasks * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field * 8+ years of relevant experience or Master's with 6+ years * Hands-on AI/ML concepts: model integration, inference, evaluation, feature engineering * Strong Go backend experience: APIs, concurrency, testing, maintainable aaa
and * Experience designing scalable, highly available, and observable architectures * Distributed systems experience with asynchronous processing and data workflows * RESTful APIs and microservices development * Database experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar * Cloud platforms, CI/CD, containers, automation, observability, version control * Linux proficiency * Strong communication and cross-team collaboration * Ownership, curiosity, and willingness to contribute beyond duties Key requirements * free medical coverage in HIP PPO plan * excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution * tuition reimbursement * Freedom 2 Save student debt program * FreeU education benefit for bachelor's degree * career development opportunities

## Description

Experteer Overview In this role you will strengthen Abbott's Go-based healthcare platforms and cloud SaaS services, embedding AI capabilities to deliver health insights. You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and compliant software that supports global healthcare delivery. You'll tackle high-volume, low-latency systems and drive architectural improvements while staying at the forefront of AI, cloud, and medical software trends. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape digital health solutions that aid patient care. Compensation / Benefits * Enhance and maintain Go-based healthcare platforms with a focus on reliability, performance, security, and UX * Design, build, test, and deploy cloud-native SaaS services, APIs, and data workflows * Develop distributed systems handling high-volume healthcare data * Integrate AI capabilities including model inference and evaluation workflows * Build secure APIs for compliant data sharing with internal and external partners * Collaborate cross-functionally with product, quality, regulatory, security, DevOps, and engineering teams * Work with InfoSec on secure, standards-aligned solutions * Write clean, testable code with strong test coverage * Contribute to architecture, strategy, and reusable design patterns * Build internal tools, dashboards, and automation to improve productivity and release confidence * Document system design with diagrams and specifications * Participate in agile development and lead code/design reviews * Stay current with AI, cloud, healthcare trends and apply relevant innovations * Demonstrate ownership, technical judgment, collaboration, and continuous learning Tasks * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field * 8+ years of relevant experience or Master's with 6+ years * Hands-on AI/ML concepts: model integration, inference, evaluation, feature engineering * Strong Go backend experience: APIs, concurrency, testing, maintainable design * Experience designing scalable, highly available, and observable architectures * Distributed systems experience with asynchronous processing and data workflows * RESTful APIs and microservices development * Database experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar * Cloud platforms, CI/CD, containers, automation, observability, version control * Linux proficiency * Strong communication and cross-team collaboration * Ownership, curiosity, and willingness to contribute beyond duties Key requirements * free medical coverage in HIP PPO plan * excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution * tuition reimbursement * Freedom 2 Save student debt program * FreeU education benefit for bachelor's degree * career development opportunities


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