Senior Staff Engineer, Therapy Lead

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 your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

R&D Core Team Lead (Medical Devices)

Our Neuromodulation business is an area of expertise for Abbott. This business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. Our Solutions include Eterna™ Rechargeable SCS System, Proclaim™ XR non-rechargeable SCS System, Proclaim™ DRG Neurostimulator, Liberta™ Rechargeable DBS System, and IonicRF ™, for radio frequency 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.

Our location in Plano, TX currently has an opportunity for an R&D Core Team Lead (Therapy Lead). This is an exciting opportunity to join Abbott's dynamic, growing new product development team committed to innovating the treatment of chronic pain and motion disorder. The R&D Core Team Lead role is a leadership position accountable for developing and delivering new therapy products for Abbott Neuromodulation Division.  Abbott Neuromodulation is 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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

The R&D Core Team Lead (Therapy Lead) is a leadership position accountable for developing and delivering new therapy products for the neuromodulation division of Abbott.  The R&D Core Team Lead is a critical thinker who applies an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to plan, design, develop, verify and launch a lifecycle balanced system of systems and system solutions.

• Lead a technical team composed of the various R&D functional groups, act as the design authority responsible for R&D deliverables for programs, including complex system design trade-offs, program and product risk mitigation, technical problem solving and implementation decisions.
• Work cross functionally within R&D to lead the definition, architecture, design, and delivery of strategic products needed to support the therapy portfolio.
• Build and inspire the cross-functional team to create innovative, meaningful, business-impactful products, and will ensure that their programs successfully navigate the design controls process and deliver high-quality products to the market. 
• Acts as the primary representative of R&D for development programs and promotes collaboration with various departments/disciplines through knowledge of the interaction between departments/disciplines and how their products/processes affect one another.
• Oversees and guides troubleshooting issues to determine root cause and poss