Sr. R&D Clinical Engineer at Abbott Laboratories

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.

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. You’ll 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 bachelor’s 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

The Sr. R&D Clinical Engineer position works out of our Sylmar, CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Managment Division. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

What You’ll Work On

• Owns pre-defined tasks within a larger effort such as user need and feature definition, validation or product development of a sub-system, and drives them to on-time, high quality completion.
• Investigates and defines clinical requirements for new product/feature development and facilitates the translation into new projects through clinical review and evaluation. Works with field and medical personnel to define the benchmarks for evaluating the clinical performance of these products/features.
• Reports significant progress and final findings of projects to management and product development staff in the company.
• Gathers and analyzes input requirements for medical devices, supporting instrumentation/service infrastructure, and translates these into specific system requirements/interface specifications.  
•  Identifying potential product enhancements and new product ideas by applying an analytical approach to understanding the clinical needs of physicians and users
• Simulates or tests aspects of new projects to evaluate prototypes and validate output as meeting customers’ intended use requirements; analyzes electrograms, diagnostic or programming data collected from the field or from research studies.  
• Develops and directs preclinical evaluation protocols, data analysis, and reports 
• Contributes to the evaluation and validation of a specific subsystem or project as necessary to conduct feasibility studies, usability and human factors analyses, technology assessments, concept studies, benchmarking studies, or submission studies.
• Collaborating with other organizations within the company as needed: engineering, regulatory, human factors, quality, marketing, etc
• Provides input to the risk management file and Clinical Evaluation Reports in support of the product throughout its lifecycle.
• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), 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.  Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
• Performs other related duties and responsibilities, on occasion, as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Domain knowledge of cardiac rhythm management devices strongly preferred
•  BS Degree in biomedical, mechanical, electrical, or similar
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience in medical product development and/or a graduate degree with relevant project experience.
• Demonstrated ability to apply understanding of clinical application to issues in order to bring tasks to resolution within assigned projects.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively integrate information from varied disciplines including Clinical Affairs, Engineering, Marketing and Regulatory Affairs.
•  Demonstrated leadership capability in team settings
• Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross-division business unit model preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication ability 
•  Ability to travel approximately 10%, including internationally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s or Doctoral Degree in biomedical, mechanical or electrical engineering, or a biological or physical science or medicine
• Advanced credential in a relevant discipline/concentration, including Biomedical Engineering, preferred.  
• Fluent in medical procedure terminology and sound knowledge of cardiac anatomy
• Medical device experience preferred

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* 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 – $167,200.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.