Senior Principal Engineer – Imaging, Digital Solutions

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

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.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

• 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 Senior Principal Engineer – Imaging, Digital Solutions position can work out of our Santa Clara, CA location.

Responsible for independently leading the development and execution of new and existing products, processes, prototypes, fixtures, and tools. Serves as a recognized technical expert in design engineering, new product development, and design transfer, resolving complex technical challenges and driving continuous quality improvement.

Provides architectural leadership and integration for next-generation medical image visualization platforms, focusing on high‑performance rendering, interactive image manipulation (zoom, pan, rotate, window/level, overlays), and DICOM-based workflows.

Drives innovation aligned to company goals, shapes long-term technical strategy, and mentors engineers across functions. Acts as a domain authority, ensuring cross-team alignment across imaging, platform, and clinical stakeholders to deliver impactful advancements in patient care.

What You’ll Work On

• Leads design and development of new and existing systems/products; defines and improves engineering standards, processes, and procedures.

• Creates requirements, specifications, and designs for medical devices in compliance with regulatory standards.

• Leads subsystem characterization, verification, and validation activities; designs tests, analyzes results, and documents outcomes.

• Applies experimental, empirical, and simulation-based analyses to evaluate designs, mitigate risks, and ensure reliability.

• Develops test methods, simulation models, and technical documentation governing processes and procedures.

• Leads development of product specifications, FMEAs, DOEs, and V&V strategies; manages risk documentation and mitigation.

• Recommends and improves Design Control and quality processes in accordance with FDA guidelines.

• Applies advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis (RCA) for complex system-level issues.

• Provides technical justification and drives resolution of complex design challenges.

• Establishes technical leadership, identifies program risks, and ensures execution to timelines and schedules.

• Drives process improvements to enhance engineering efficiency across teams.

• Develops products, processes, and design tools for cross-organizational use.

• Defines and owns architecture for medical image visualization systems, including 2D/3D/4D viewers and rendering pipelines (web and device-based).

• Leads design of high-performance 3D visualization (volume rendering, MPR, zoom/pan/scroll, cine playback) and integration with backend systems.

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