Principal AI/ML Engineer

Abbott

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Work type
On-site
Location
Alameda, CA
Salary
$130,700–$261,300 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
12 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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About Abbott

Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare company that manufactures and markets a broad and diversified line of health care products including diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic pharmaceuticals. Industry: Healthcare & Medical Devices

Abbott currently has 193 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal AI/ML Engineer

JOB TITLE: Principal AI/ML Engineer As a Principal AI/ML Engineer at Lingo, you will serve as a founding technical lead for the AI engineering team, defining the architecture and vision for agentic and LLM-based features. You will build systems that transform glucose data and model outputs into personalized, conversational insights by designing agents that integrate history, meals, and activity. Your daily work involves owning agent orchestration, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, and memory patterns while establishing safety guardrails for regulatory compliance. You will productionize time-series and personalization models using Python on cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP. This role solves the technical challenge of delivering traceable, auditable, and clinically grounded health insights from continuous biosensor data within a regulated medical device and digital health context.

What you'll do

  • Define the technical vision and architecture for agentic and LLM-based features across cloud and device platforms.
  • Design and build agents that combine glucose history, model predictions, and user context to deliver actionable insights.
  • Own agent orchestration, tool use, memory, and retrieval patterns while selecting models based on safety, cost, and latency.
  • Establish guardrails to ensure agent responses remain within approved product and regulatory claims.
  • Build evaluation frameworks with clinically grounded test sets to measure accuracy, safety, and user impact.
  • Ensure all agent responses are traceable and auditable in compliance with design controls and regulatory requirements.
  • Productionize time-series and personalization models into scalable, monitored services with defined latency and availability targets.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the AI engineering team while leading architecture and design reviews.

What we're looking for

  • Ph.D. or master’s degree in computer science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 10+ years of software or ML engineering experience.
  • Minimum of 3+ years of experience building LLM-based or agentic systems in production.
  • Deep experience with agent frameworks, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation, and prompt and model evaluation.
  • Proven track record designing guardrails, safety controls, and evaluation pipelines for user-facing AI.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership in setting architecture and standards across teams without direct authority.
  • Experience in a regulated industry, medical devices, digital health, or SaMD (preferred).

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