Sr. Product Development Engineer

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Develops and implements tools, best practices and strategies to enable robust and efficient design and development of medical devices and combination products, with a heightened focus on early-stage development.

• Under general direction, the Senior Engineer will identify and prioritize various aspects of development to optimize based on the needs of the organization.
• Once identified as a priority, the Senior Engineer will conduct research to benchmark best practices where possible.
• The Senior Engineer will then lead efforts to develop, refine, gain alignment and implement best practices, strategies and associated tools, collaborating cross-functionally as necessary.

Responsibilities: 

• Building Development Excellence: Identifies best practices, strategies and tools for product development to enable robust and efficient execution of design control and related aspects of product development. 
• Develops and implements new methodologies and tools to facilitate good design & development practices, ensure timely decisions and mitigate project risk across various device types (e.g. combination products, tissue-based devices, injectable devices, capital equipment, 510(k) devices, PMA devices, etc.), including ideation and early research prior to initiation of design control.
• Initial focus is on various aspects of early-stage development (e.g. understanding relevant disease states, developing design inputs, executing design & process characterization studies, establishing design outputs, etc.).
• May participate in ethnographic studies to support the development of User Needs, including identification of user groups, defini