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

Job Title

Staff Engineer R&D

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

This position works out of our Temecula, CA location in the Vascular division.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents.

The Staff Engineer is accountable for delivering entire programs or complex, significant portions of programs with some level of novelty. Also accountable for organizing and managing work, investigating issues, defining behaviors, applying expertise and validating designs and products for systems. Accountable for applying an expert understanding of applications, customer needs to be addressed, behaviors and architected solutions to streamline product development in addition to ensuring product quality. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer requirements and performance requirements to the total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule and cost constraints.

What You'll Work On

• Researches, develops, designs, and evaluates new products based on customer needs.

• Conducts statistically based feasibility studies to verify capability and functionality.

• Provides technical leadership for project team.

• Develops new concepts from initial design to market release.

• Directs support personnel and coordinates project activities.

• Write and submit intellectual property (patents).

• Maintains detailed documentation throughout all phases of research and development.

• Investigates and evaluates existing technologies.

• Reviews or coordinates vendor activities to support development.

• Write and submit professional articles for technical journals.

• Influence/Leadership-Understands business environment and relates extensive knowledge of internal and external technological activities to trends.

• Interfaces with senior management on significant matters, often requiring the coordination of activity across organizational units.

• Participates in the development of other technical contributors by facilitating training and providing feedback and guidance.

• Provides technical leadership to business units. Acts as a mentor to less-experienced staff and may provide work direction or supervise other technical employees.

• Exercises judgment independently.

• Planning/Organization-Plans and organizes project assignments of substantial variety and complexity. Initiates or maintains schedule for projects and project milestones. Establishes priorities of individual or project assignments.

• Decision Making/Impact-Selects methods and techniques to lead a project to completion. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve major organizational objectives.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU'LL BRING

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering or similar or equivalent combination of education and work experience

• Minimum 9 years of related experience

• Experience in JMP, Minitab or other statistical program.

• Comprehensive knowledge of statistics.

• Medical Device Experience

Preferred Experience

• Catheter design and development experience - Highly desired

• SolidWorks

• Mechanical or Polymer experience

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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 $95,000.00 - $190,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.