Senior Systems Engineer
AbbottAbout the role
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Senior Systems Engineer – Pleasanton, CA
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
This position works out of our Pleasanton, CA location in the Heart Failure (HF) Division. Leading an active lifestyle is important to the many people we serve. In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) division, we’re advancing the treatment of heart and vascular disease through breakthrough medical technologies. As a global leader in Mechanical Circulatory and Cardiac Pressure Measurement Systems, our breakthrough medical device technologies help restore people's health so they can get back to living their best lives, faster. We focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart failure (HF).
The Senior Systems Engineer will be accountable for delivering systems engineering tasks for significant portions of programs with some level of novelty. Working at either our location in Pleasanton, CA, the primary responsibilities include the elicitation and management of design input requirements from customer and business needs. This individual will also provide critical input to the systems architecture and own the systems integration and design change control process. The individual will be expected to provide leadership, mentoring, and direction to other team members from a wide range of functions and/or geographical locations. This engineer is a key member of Abbott’s product development team to bring systems from concept to launch.
What You’ll Work On
Works with marketing and/or product management to develop design input requirements from user and business needs.
Leads the generation of the system design input requirements.
Ensures tracing between user and business needs, and the design input requirements. Use and administration of DOORS a plus.
Makes sure design input requirements include safety risk management requirements, and human factors.
Evaluates/analyzes requirements for coherence and completeness and clarifies ambiguous requirements.
Experience in developing Risk Management activities. Experience with ISO 14971 is a plus.
Negotiates resolution of problem areas with marketing/product management and the other members of the team.
Coaches other team members in methods for developing good product definitions.
Recommends the system architecture for a set of products indented to perform a protocol or function.
Models systems behavior to drive architectural decisions and requirement definition and refinement.
Drives the decomposition of design input requirements into detailed subsystem requirements.
Provides links between design inputs, architectural components and subsystem requirements, to ensure design meets expectations.
Develops a documentation tree to support the systems architecture.
Plans, manages, and reports on overall systems integration.
Generates the systems integration plan and report.
Coordinates system engin
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