Senior Systems Engineer

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Senior Systems Engineer â Pleasanton, CA

WORKING AT ABBOTT

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. Youâll 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 bachelorâs 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 Pleasanton, CA location in the Heart Failure (HF) Division. Leading an active lifestyle is important to the many people we serve. In Abbottâs Heart Failure (HF) division, weâre advancing the treatment of heart and vascular disease through breakthrough medical technologies.  As a global leader in Mechanical Circulatory and Cardiac Pressure Measurement Systems, our breakthrough medical device technologies help restore people's health so they can get back to living their best lives, faster. We focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart failure (HF).

The Senior Systems Engineer will be accountable for delivering systems engineering tasks for significant portions of programs with some level of novelty. Working at either our location in Pleasanton, CA, the primary responsibilities include the elicitation and management of design input requirements from customer and business needs. This individual will also provide critical input to the systems architecture and own the systems integration and design change control process. The individual will be expected to provide leadership, mentoring, and direction to other team members from a wide range of functions and/or geographical locations. This engineer is a key member of Abbottâs product development team to bring systems from concept to launch.

What Youâll Work On

• Works with marketing and/or product management to develop design input requirements from user and business needs.

• Leads the generation of the system design input requirements.

• Ensures tracing between user and business needs, and the design input requirements.  Use and administration of DOORS a plus.

• Makes sure design input requirements include safety risk management requirements, and human factors.

• Evaluates/analyzes requirements for coherence and completeness and clarifies ambiguous requirements.

• Experience in developing Risk Management activities.  Experience with ISO 14971 is a plus.

• Negotiates resolution of problem areas with marketing/product management and the other members of the team.

• Coaches other team members in methods for developing good product definitions.

• Recommends the system architecture for a set of products indented to perform a protocol or function.

• Models systems behavior to drive architectural decisions and requirement definition and refinement.

• Drives the decomposition of design input requirements into detailed subsystem requirements.

• Provides links between design inputs, architectural components and subsystem requirements, to ensure design meets expectations.

• Develops a documentation tree to support the systems architecture.

• Plans, manages, and reports on overall systems integration.

• Generates the systems integration plan and report.

• Coordinates system engineering testing to verify systems functionality.

• Drives and records configuration of system at integration points.

• Owns system design change control process.

• Supports system verification execution.

• Identifies and escalates risks in terms on systems viability with existing requirements.

• Identifies and escalates issues with operation and use of systems engineering tools.

• Provides recommendations to the management on systems engineering issues.

• Fosters collaboration with cross-functional teams, platform architects and other leaders to drive work to completion and resolve issues. Successfully influences stakeholders. Communicates effectively with cross-functional teams and senior management. Keeps leadership informed of progress and issues.   

• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), and other regulatory requirements.

• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.

• Cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelorâs degree in Engineering and/or Science with 5+ years of experience in developing highly engineered products (at least 3 years in medical/diagnostics products), or an equivalent combination of education and experience (MS with 3 years, or PhD with 2 years).

• Possesses systems engineering experience spanning the entire product lifecycle, including proficient use of systems engineering tools (e.g. requirements management, change control, etc.).

• Systems engineering experience (at least 3 years) in a highly regulated industry

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to communicate to all levels of the organization

• Previous experience working in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment

• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment

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Preferred Qualifications

• Masterâs Degree in Engineering (Computer, Electrical, Computer Systems, or Software), Computer Science, or related discipline

• Medical device experience, specifically supporting heart failure and/or cardiovascular systems and experience with biologic sensors (flow, pressure, EKG, etc)

• Experience in Human Factor Engineering

* 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.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

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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The base pay for this position is $83,600.00 â $167,200.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.