Principal Clinical 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:

Principal Clinical Engineer

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 St Paul, MN, location in the Abbott Ventures division under Structural Heart.   Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

The Principal Clinical Engineer is a technical role responsible for understanding the function of medical devices and their use in the clinical setting (field). This role will require deep understanding of device function and its clinical use and will have responsibility for the technical aspects of device training, both for internal company personnel and for physician proceduralists, ensuring an understanding of technical device operation to achieve successful implant procedures. This will include developing and refining training materials as experience is gained. In this capacity, the Engineer will work closely with the field clinical specialist organization, who will have primary responsibility for case coverage. The Engineer can also serve as case lead for the procedure (especially with new generations of devices and new applications of existing devices – as the FCS team is developing these skills). The Engineer will provide support from within the clinical function for product development work, Design Validation and Verification activities, and will support pre-clinical activities. This role will have experience in interventional cardiac procedures and will support the FCS leadership and team. The position will also facilitate learning from implants to ensure dissemination of best practices and experience, providing educational support. In the field, the Engineer will serve as the device SME to facilitate the transfer of experience both from internal experts to the field and liaising between the field experience and internal stakeholders including Therapy Development, R&D, Quality Systems and Operations. 

What You’ll Work On

• Develop and provide technical training and support for the Field Clinical Specialists supporting procedures, and ensuring knowledge transfer from internal experts to the field, and the transfer of experience from the field to internal stakeholders 

• Serves as technical subject matter expert (SME) that will support investigations into product experiences 

• Serves as technical subject matter expert (SME) representing the clinical function for product development as well as Design Verification and Validation activities. 

• Develops, leads and/or facilitates technical device-based training content in alignment with Abbott best practices – working both with internal Abbott team members and site-based health care providers. 

• Responsible for troubleshooting, re-training, and supporting the field implementation of investigational product 

• Provide direct support to the Field Clinical Specialist function in the areas of patient identification, case planning and case support. 

• Identifies