Staff Clinical Product Engineer

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 position works out of our Sylmar, CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead large group of engineers and scientists and manage the clinical development work for multiple projects within a function, program or therapeutic area and able to meet detailed project timeline and milestones

• Plan and implement product development projects, and provide technical leadership and supervision to others

• Ensure program objectives are determined and met, logistics are effectively coordinated, and budgets are adhered to. Act as cross-functional liaison to ensure designs and products are meeting customer needs and regulatory requirements.

• Understands the business units products and related clinical workflows and know or able to learn about competitive product offering in different geographies

• Engages with customers throughout product development cycle, defines clinical and workflow requirements for new product/feature development and represent the Voice of Customer in product development cycle, and drives the translation into new projects through clinical review and evaluation.

• Lead the work with field and medical personnel to define the benchmarks for evaluating the clinical performance of these products/features.

• Able to interpret data from customers, provide insights and recommendations, and assist the team to identify future product opportunities

• Can drive and lead clinical design documentation such as user needs, feature definition, and  design validation, and drives them to on-time and high quality completion.

• Drives, Develops and directs pre-clinical evaluation protocols, data analysis, and reports

• Reports significant progress and final findings of projects to management and product development staff in the company.

• Simulates or tests aspects of new projects to evaluate prototypes and validate output as meeting customers’ intended use requirements; analyzes electrograms, diagnostic or programming data collected from the field or from research studies.

• Provides input to the risk management file and Clinical Evaluation Reports in support of the product throughout its lifecycle.

• Ability to supervise and train junior engineers on completing assigned work.

• Help along the entire R&D value chain during ideation, research, product design & development to create smart and connected medical devices with intuitive workflows

• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.

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