Eng II, Clinical Engineering

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

This position works out of our Burlington, MA location in the Heart Failure Division. In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

We are seeking a high caliber Engineer II, Clinical Engineering and Human Factors to support product development efforts by performing clinical engineering tasks such as investigating, defining, analyzing, documenting, and testing activities associated with the development of heart failure devices. Clinical Engineering performs additional analyses and/or interviews to determine the requirements and constraints on the system and is accountable for resolving cross-functional issues. Work requires the application of theoretical principles, evaluation, ingenuity, and creative/analytical techniques.

What You’ll Work On

• Own pre-defined tasks within a larger effort such as definition, development, or validation of a system or sub-system, and drive them to on-time, high quality completion.

• Develop expertise in the scientific, technical, medical, and clinical aspects of Abbott heart failure devices and features and the disease states they aim to treat.

• Leverage clinical knowledge and product expertise to aid new concept and product development, define preferred embodiments of products, features, and algorithms, and evaluate compatibility of system components in clinical workflow scenarios.

• Leverage human factors expertise to investigate and define clinical and/or usability requirements for new devices and system features, drive integration of features into the existing clinical workflows, and facilitate the transition of these features into products through clinical review and evaluation.

• Gather and analyze use errors and issues for medical devices and translate these into specific system risk mitigations. 

• Simulate or test aspects of new projects to evaluate prototypes and optimize the user experience.  

• Interact with project teams and functional groups to plan and execute feasibility studies, preclinical studies, formative and summative usability studies, data development and claims studies, technology assessments, concept studies, or benchmarking studies.

• Develop and support preclinical evaluation protocols, data analysis, and reports.

• Represent the voice of customer by working with field and medical personnel to define user needs and user experience for products/features.

• Apply usability improvement principles to the evaluation and solution of complex product design problems. 

• Create detailed usability deliverables, such as concepts, use case specifications, use FMEAs, and usability protocols/reports.

• Provide input to the risk management process, including risk brainstorming, identification of Patient Harms, and severity and probability assessments.

• Contribute to the evaluation and validation of a spec