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Design Assurance Engineer II

Abbott
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 Aug 2025
💰 $133,300/yr($66,700/yr$133,300/yr)

About the role

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:

Design Assurance Engineer II

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 Plymouth, MN location in the Electrophysiology division. In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

As an Engineer II, you will be providing development and sustaining support as a part of a multidisciplinary product development team, overseeing projects throughout concept to launch in all phases of Design Production/Process Controls with a focus in the disposable catheter. You will be a key contributor to the design, development and testing activities for complex medical devices.

Who we want:

  • Critical thinkers: People who challenge status quo and work to find just the right solutions.

  • Collaborators: Partners who listen to ideas, share thoughts, and work together to move the business forward.

  • Problem Solvers: People who can take on complex problems and apply first principles and sound technical practices.

  • Communicators: People who can communicate project progress, data analysis and conclusions effectively across a broad set of stakeholders.

  • Responsible: People who own their deliverables and activities and see things through to completion. People who take personal accountability for end results.

What you’ll work on:

  • Be a core team member to implement complex development projects including quality improvement initiatives.

  • Cross-functional team member and driving towards compliant and efficient solutions to complex problems.

  • Execute on Holistic & Strategic Design Verification/Validation, Process Verificaiton/Validation Strategies with emphasis on:

    • Technical analysis of requirements, specifications, and control strategy

    • Efficient and cost-effective execution of validation and verification

    • Alignment of design outputs to production and process controls

    • Proper verification techniques including inspection, demonstration, test, etc.

  • Support design and process characterization activities for development projects

  • Apply statistics to design/process and verification decisions.

  • Support design/process test and inspection method development, and lead method validation activities.

  • Lead root cause investigations, including corrective and preventive action activities, with the purpose of identifying the underlying issues and offering efficient long-term solutions.

  • Ensure DHF, DMR, DHR content integrity, completeness, and regulatory / standards compliance; collaboratively communicating & resolving gaps.

  • Participate in internal and external inspections and inquiries from regulators such as FDA and ISO as it relates to design assurance.

  • Support and ens

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