Staff Engineer, R&D

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 107,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries

ABOUT ABBOTT

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 107,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of STRUCTURAL HEART disease. We aim to lead the markets we serve by requiring the solutions we offer customers provide an improved benefit/risk profile as compared to existing standards of care; a performance threshold that by definition, guides and ensures the productive output of our engineering, business development, and clinical research efforts result in outcomes that advance the standard of care. WHAT YOU'LL DO

The Staff R&D Engineer will use multidisciplinary engineering knowledge to design and develop innovative new products in the dynamic structural heart space where Abbott is a leading provider of solutions.

• Conceptualize new devices using material knowledge and innovative mechanical design
• Plan, coordinate, and execute activity in support of project goals
• Conceive and build prototype
• Establish requirements and specifications
• Run empirical and experimental analysis
• Develop test methods and clinically relevant models
• Comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments
• Maintain positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors
• Support animal and bench testing and clinical evaluations
• Identify and mitigate project risks
• Maintain knowledge of the developing clinical environment (i.e. current treatment methods, evolving clinical needs etc.)
• Investigate issues and define root causes in complex systems
• Work with outside consultants, vendors, and the medical community
• May manage and supervise technicians, co-ops/interns, and entry level engineers

  EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU'LL BRING

  Required

  Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or other related engineering field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

• Experience, primarily in R&D engineering
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization