Abbott Posted October 31, 2026

Senior Data Scientist

Alameda, California, United States FULL_TIME
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About this opportunity

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.

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. You’ll 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

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 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.

About Lingo

Meet Lingo, a new biosensing technology that provides users a window into their body. Lingo tracks key biomarkers – such as glucose, ketones, and lactate – to help people make better decisions about their health and nutrition. Biowearable technology will digitize, decentralize and democratize healthcare, enabling consumers to take control of their own health.

The opportunity

Personalized healthcare is the future. Working on Lingo, you will help build a next-generation technology that enables individuals to make decisions about how to improve energy, lose weight or enhance athletic performance. The Lingo team embodies a start-up culture and mindset with the backing of Abbott, a company with a rich history of healthcare innovation. Join us and grow your career as you help Abbott shape the future of healthcare.

You will apply your strong expertise in artificial intelligence by using machine learning to design, prototype, and build next-generation advanced analytics engines and services. You will work closely with software engineers, data architects, designers, and product owners and develop AI features, predictive models using machine learning and other advanced analytics tools to increase and optimize customer experience, revenue generation, prospect targeting, and other business outcomes.

This position works out of our Alameda, CA location in Lingo.

What you’ll do

Work within an agile team in a dynamic, fast-moving, collaborative environment and design complex analytics models and algorithms that drive analytical solutions throughout the organization

Develop data and model pipelines with tools like Azure ML SDK, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Spark, or related technologies

Analyze large amounts of data to discover trends and patterns, and build analytics models

Ensure the highest level of data accessibility, security, and quality at all stages; create automated anomaly detection systems and monitor their performance and model drift

Effectively communicate complex ideas and results to both technical and business/executive audiences

Conduct advanced statistical and other analysis to provide actionable insights, identify trends, and measure performance

Create repeatable, interpretable, dynamic, and scalable models that are seamlessly incorporated into analytics data products

Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered conversational experiences, including chatbots and virtual assistants leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), intent classification, grounded responses, and policy-based controls.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree, Advanced degree in computer science, biomedical, bioengineering, data science, or relevant, is preferred.

8+ years of relevant experience in the data science/analytics space

Strong expertise in Python as well as proficiency in writing complex SQL queries

Proficiency in using machine learning to solve clustering, classification, regression, anomaly detection, simulation, and optimization problems on large-scale data sets

Strong hands-on experience and expertise in one or more big data technologies, i.e., Hadoop, Spark, H20.ai, cloud AI platforms, containerization

Experience supporting deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and enhancement of analytics models

Experience building and deploying AI-powered conversational solutions, including intent classification, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), grounded response generation, policy and guardrail implementation, validation methodologies, and evaluation frameworks for production use cases.

Up to date on industry trends within the analytics space from a data acquisition processing, engineering, and management perspective

High level of curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving capabilities

The base pay for this position is $114,000.00 – $228,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job details

Seniority
Senior
Function
Biostatistics & Data Science
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Alameda, California, United States
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Biostatistics & Data Science role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 148 comparable Senior Biostatistics & Data Science roles across 31 biopharma companies.

148Comparable roles tracked
137Currently active
31Companies hiring similar roles
19Countries represented

Salary context

54 of 148 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Senior Statistical Programmer · Johnson & Johnson $106,000/yr – $170,200/yr
Highest disclosed · Biostatistics Associate Director (HYBRID) · Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (US) $174,800/yr – $262,200/yr
Peer group range $138,100 – $218,500 (median $185,244)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 148 comparable roles

United States81
India17
United Kingdom11
China5
Spain4
Canada4

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Seniority mix

148 of 148 peers have a known seniority level

Senior70
Principal43
Associate Director35

Therapeutic area mix

10 of 148 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Immunology4
Oncology4
Rare Disease1
Cardiovascular / CVRM1

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