[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Abbott Laboratories jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbott-laboratories/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Abbott Laboratories # Principal AI Platform Engineer United States - Illinois - Abbott Park Senior individual contributor $149,300.00 – $298,700.00 Operations Listed on Abbott Laboratories’s official careers site. Posted October 13, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Abbott Laboratories’s careers site →](https://abbott.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/abbottcareers/job/United-States---Illinois---Abbott-Park/Principal-AI-Platform-Engineer_31164457-1) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Abbott Laboratories](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbott-laboratories/) / Principal AI Platform Engineer ## Job description 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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. ### JOB DESCRIPTION The Opportunity A hands-on technical leadership role accountable for the architecture, engineering, and reliability of Abbott's enterprise AI Platform: the control plane and paved road that let teams build, deploy, and operate enterprise GenAI and agentic systems safely and quickly. This role is the technical counterpart to the Product Manager, AI Platform and partners with AI Product Managers, AI/Agentic Engineering, Applied Data Science, security, and division engineering teams. The role is Director-mapped and begins as a player-coach, with responsibility to grow and lead a platform engineering team. ### What You'll Do - Define and evolve the reference architecture for the AI control plane, paved-road services, SDKs, templates, and developer experience. - Design and build a model gateway that supports multi-provider routing, failover, quota and rate limiting, tenant isolation, key management, token accounting, and cost allocation (e.g., a LiteLLM-style gateway over Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, or Vertex AI). - Deliver a GenAI runtime for model serving, retrieval-augmented generation, context and memory stores, vector and hybrid search, sandboxed tool or code execution, secrets brokering, and MCP-style tool interoperability. - Own the technical design of model, agent, prompt, and tool registries, including versioning, lineage, approval and promotion gates, deprecation, and auditability. - Build platform observability and traceability for prompts, model calls, tool calls, and agent steps using distributed tracing (e.g., OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions and Langfuse- or Arize-class tooling), with evaluation, quality, drift, latency, and cost signals. - Implement security, guardrails, and responsible-AI controls in the platform, including PII/PHI handling, prompt-injection defenses, identity-on-behalf-of, least-privilege tool access, and policy enforcement. - Establish platform engineering practices using Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, secure software development, capacity management, and reliability engineering. Define SLOs, participate in on-call, and lead incident response. - Write and review production code, conduct architecture reviews, set engineering standards, and make pragmatic build-versus-buy and vendor recommendations with budget input. - Hire, coach, and develop a platform engineering team of approximately 3–8 engineers; allocate work, set goals, and manage career development while remaining technically hands-on. - Partner with the Product Manager, AI Platform to sequence the platform roadmap, communicate tradeoffs, and measure adoption, reliability, time-to-onboard, and consumer-team outcomes. ### Required Qualifications - 10–15+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or infrastructure experience, including significant technical leadership. - Hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise AI/GenAI platforms or comparable developer, data, or ML platforms in production. - Strong software engineering ability in Python and at least one of TypeScript, Go, or Java, with experience in APIs, distributed systems, testing, code review, and secure SDLC. - Deep technical understanding of model gateways, GenAI runtimes, RAG, agent registries, evaluation, observability, traceability, guardrails, identity, and platform governance. - Experience with containers and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), infrastructure as code, CI/CD, cloud services, secrets management, and production SLOs and on-call practices. - Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience. - Demonstrated ability to lead technical decisions, influence across teams, communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, and manage a growing engineering team. ### Preferred Qualifications - Experience building enterprise GenAI or agent platforms using capabilities such as multi-model routing, agent registries, prompt management, evaluation harnesses, and GenAI tracing. - Experience in a highly regulated environment such as health tech, med-tech, or life sciences, with GxP, HIPAA, validation, auditability, and change-control constraints. - Experience implementing security, responsible-AI, privacy, policy, and cost or FinOps controls for shared AI infrastructure. - Experience with open standards and tooling such as MCP, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and cloud-native platform engineering practices. The base pay for this position is $149,300.00 – $298,700.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted. ### JOB FAMILY IT Services & Solutions Delivery DIVISION: BTS Business Technology Services LOCATION: United States > Abbott Park: AP06C ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: WORK SHIFT: Standard TRAVEL: Yes, 10 % of the Time MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. ### EEO is the Law link - English [http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf](http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf) EEO is the Law link - Espanol: [http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf](http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf) ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 13, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 13, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 20, 2026 - Listed for: 7 days - Location: United States - Illinois - Abbott Park - Pay: $149,300.00 – $298,700.00[Apply on Abbott Laboratories’s careers site →](https://abbott.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/abbottcareers/job/United-States---Illinois---Abbott-Park/Principal-AI-Platform-Engineer_31164457-1) ## More jobs at Abbott Laboratories ### [2027 Abbott Operations Internship Program](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbott-laboratories/jobs/d37843bffab51c761802/) United States - Illinois - Abbott Park ### [Business Systems Manager](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbott-laboratories/jobs/c678129fa4913f16d090/) United States - Illinois - Abbott Park ### [Operator Shift Group Leader, Third Shift](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbott-laboratories/jobs/633f40393bb992271c20/) United States - Illinois - Abbott Park ### [Principal AI/Agentic Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbott-laboratories/jobs/dfea2c879b7f0c968da9/) United States - Illinois - Abbott Park ### [AQR Quality Program, Manager](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbott-laboratories/jobs/a67dd5e9446ed87ddfbb/) United States - Illinois - Abbott Park ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Principal, AI Platform Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cargill/jobs/da5401f80abcd157bfdb/) Cargill · Atlanta, Georgia ### [Principal Software Engineer - Web Platform](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/40330b09121994bb1197/) Microsoft · United States, Washington, Redmond ### [Principal Software Engineer, M365 Enterprise Search Platform](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/8222476f0df39ecce4e5/) Microsoft · United States, Washington, Redmond ### [AI/ML Platform Architect - Engineer, Principal](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/qualcomm/jobs/af9b3b2819eaed7bb5b3/) Qualcomm · San Diego, California, United States of America ### [Collaboration Platform Principal Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/huntington-bank/jobs/dece91b6592e0a3e2af1/) Huntington Bank · Atlanta, GA Austin, TX Cleveland, OH Dallas, TX Columbus, OH MN OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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