Staff Systems Verification 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:

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.

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• 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
We are recruiting a Staff Systems Engineer to join our Abbott Heart Failure team in Pleasanton, CA, where we are focused on helping people with heart failure manage their health and ultimately change and save lives.  The engineer will be primarily working on the CardioMEMS HF portfolio, which remotely monitors changes in pulmonary artery (PA) pressure, an early indicator of the onset of worsening heart failure, to aid physicians in preventing worsening heart failure, lower heart failure mortality rates, and improve quality of life for our heart failure patients.  The Staff Systems Engineer will be accountable for delivering system verification across the full CardioMEMS system in support of multiple ongoing projects.  This role ensures the logical and systematic verification of system level design input and performance requirements accounting for technical, schedule, and cost constraints. You will be applying an expert understanding of applications, customer needs and use, verification best practices, test tools, and sub-system verification to streamline design verification. 

What you will do:

• Help drive verification projects with significant novelty and integration across various disciplines and team members. Apply a portfolio-centric approach to developing programs and verification solutions.

• Build and improve system verification processes and methods for the CardioMEMS system of devices, which includes implanted MEMS devices, external medical electrical equipment devices, database and software-based products, and mobile application products.

• Identify and implement tools, fixturing, testing automation methods, and other resources necessary to optimize and improve system verification.  

• Design and conduct system characterization testing and studies.  Process, analyze, and present resulting data and conclusions.

• Plan, develop, and execute system verification based on established system requirements, as an individual contributor and guiding other test engineers.   

• Drive review and optimization of project-wide and cross-project verification efforts to ensure adequate coverage, minimize duplication, and increase transparency and understanding of system verification versus sub-system verification versus other types of testing.

• Contribute to and support gathering, analyzing, and reviewing system level and sub-system requirements.

• Develop, write, and review test plans, procedures, methods, and reports with excellent writing skills.

• Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams and other leaders to drive work to completion and resolve issues. Successfully influence stakeholders. Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams and senior management. Keeps leadership informed of progress and issues.

• Develop and apply an expert understanding of designated systems as well as serve as a subject matter expert for the development team regarding behaviors, implementation, system and sub-system verification methodologies, and the applicable technologies required to solve pr