Abbott

Staff Clinical Product Engineer

Abbott • $114K — $228K *
Sylmar, CA 91342In-Person
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in biomedical, mechanical, electrical, or similar engineering field, or equivalent work experience
  • Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in the medical device industry
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Comprehensive communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
  • Willingness to travel approximately 20%, including international travel

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of engineers and scientists in clinical development for multiple projects
  • Plan and implement product development projects, providing technical leadership
  • Ensure program objectives and budgets are met while coordinating logistics
  • Engage with customers to define clinical requirements for new products
  • Lead clinical design documentation and ensure high-quality completion
  • Develop pre-clinical evaluation protocols and conduct data analysis
  • Report findings and progress to management and product development teams

Benefits

  • Health and wellness benefits for employees and their families
  • Diverse career opportunities within a supportive company culture
  • Commitment to Quality Management Systems and regulatory compliance
  • Support for continuous learning and development within the organization
Full Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Description

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management 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
  • Lead large group of engineers and scientists and manage the clinical development work for multiple projects within a function, program or therapeutic area and able to meet detailed project timeline and milestones
  • Plan and implement product development projects, and provide technical leadership and supervision to others
  • Ensure program objectives are determined and met, logistics are effectively coordinated, and budgets are adhered to. Act as cross-functional liaison to ensure designs and products are meeting customer needs and regulatory requirements.
  • Understands the business units products and related clinical workflows and know or able to learn about competitive product offering in different geographies
  • Engages with customers throughout product development cycle, defines clinical and workflow requirements for new product/feature development and represent the Voice of Customer in product development cycle, and drives the translation into new projects through clinical review and evaluation.
  • Lead the work with field and medical personnel to define the benchmarks for evaluating the clinical performance of these products/features.
  • Able to interpret data from customers, provide insights and recommendations, and assist the team to identify future product opportunities
  • Can drive and lead clinical design documentation such as user needs, feature definition, and design validation, and drives them to on-time and high quality completion.
  • Drives, Develops and directs pre-clinical evaluation protocols, data analysis, and reports
  • Reports significant progress and final findings of projects to management and product development staff in the company.
  • 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.
  • Provides input to the risk management file and Clinical Evaluation Reports in support of the product throughout its lifecycle.
  • Ability to supervise and train junior engineers on completing assigned work.
  • Help along the entire R&D value chain during ideation, research, product design & development to create smart and connected medical devices with intuitive workflows
  • 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
  • Bachelors Degree in biomedical, mechanical, electrical, or similar engineering field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
  • Minimum 7 years of progressively more responsible work experience in medical device industry or equivalent
  • Demonstrated ability to apply understanding of clinical application to issues in order to bring tasks to resolution within assigned projects.
  • Strong analytical, problem solving skills
  • Requires comprehensive written and verbal communication, interpersonal, facilitation, presentation, quantitative, analytical, organizational, and follow-up skills, the ability to meet deadlines on multiple projects as well as the ability to converse effectively with all levels of employees.
  • Ability to travel approximately 20%, 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
  • Demonstrated experience in authoring or co-authoring peer-reviewed scientific publications
  • Medical device experience in the cardiac space preferred


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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life.

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 FAMILY:
Product Development

DIVISION:
CRM Cardiac Rhythm Management

LOCATION:
United States > Sylmar : 15900 Valley View Court

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:
Standard

TRAVEL:
No

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Yes

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday), Work in a clean room environment

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Size
113,000 employees
Market Cap
$189 billion
Industry
Healthcare
Net Income
$4.4 billion
Founded
1944
5 Year Trend
+15.6%
Revenue
$34.6 billion
NASDAQ
ABT
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