Principal Systems Engineer

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 DESCRIPTION:

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:

Our Neuromodulation business is a market leader in leveraging mobile, minimally-invasive implantable technologies to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. Our chronic pain solutions include the Eterna™ System, Proclaim™ XR SCS System, Proclaim™ DRG Neurostimulator, the only FDA approved DRG therapy, and the IonicRF™ Generator for Radiofrequency Ablation. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum. Our deep brain stimulation technology for progressive diseases help people manage their Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor symptoms, steering away from side effects.

Abbott Neuromodulation develops advanced medical implants and accessories for the stimulus of the nervous system to help patients suffering from chronic pain and motion disorders.  We are on the forefront of implantable device miniaturization and data science for improved patient outcomes.  Through advanced embedded systems and external mobile device apps, we create an ecosystem for developing rapid advancements in the field of neuromodulation through modern data science and analysis.

Our location in Plano, TX currently has an opportunity for Principal Systems Engineer.

The Principal Systems Engineer works independently, applies an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop and verify a lifecycle balanced system of systems and system solutions. Evaluates customer and/user needs to define and coordinate system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all physical, functional and product interfaces. Leads various analyses to optimize total system of systems architecture, design and requirements. Leads analyses for affordability, safety, reliability, maintainability, testability, human systems integration, MRI Safety, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility, cybersecurity, regulatory, legal, privacy and other specialties factors for defining the interfaces and interactions between complex components of a Neuromodulation system. Guides the development of planning, organization, implementation and monitoring of requirements, architecture, design, tools, risk, issues, opportunities and the technology readiness assessment processes. Resolves cross-functional organizational and technical issues.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Leads design reviews, development and testing to assess performance against design specification; reliability testing, and assessment of system interactions. 
• Applies advanced engineering and scientific principles to architect and implement a system design that reduces design risk and optimizes design features
• Guides the definition of system requirements, system specifications and input/output process, etc.  Guides analysis of system requirements, user needs, system design, and coordinates system evaluation activities.
• Oversees and guides troubleshooting issues to determine root cause and possible engineering solutions.
• Executes and leads special studies or experiments to improve systems engineering p