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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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

Our location in Alameda, CA, currently has an opportunity for a Senior Electrical Engineer. Work independently in a lead role, or as part of a team to design, develop, and troubleshoot critical electrical designs. Identify, recommend, implement significant and/or complex new electrical design improvements or technologies that meet regulatory requirements. May lead multiple electrical engineering activities. Develop cross-functional working relationships and provide effective communication to Senior Management.

What You’ll Work On

• Research and develop high-volume consumer medical devices

• Collaborate with product managers, cross-functional leaders, system designers to translate business needs and product requirements into feature definition, technical requirements and designs.

• Develop embedded system requirements, specifications, architectures and translate into hardware meeting performance, cost, and manufacturability targets.

• Work closely with software architecture leaders to ensure proper system implementation to support the needs for system verification, manufacturing, and the end user.

• Create and review electrical design specifications and product requirements.

• Support development of design FMEAs and V&V test protocols.

• Ensure that electrical designs meet applicable industry and medical device standards.

• Communicate effectively to and participate in cross-functional development teams.

• Write and submit Engineering Change Orders in Agile PLM.

• Serve as an independent reviewer on programs not directly involved.

• Comply with corporate and divisional policies and support additional program needs.

Experience You'll Bring

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

• Minimum of 7 + years of relevant experience

• Mastery of fundamental Electrical Engineering and Embedded Design principles.

• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.

• Experience in performing complex engineering calculations and relating results to design verification tests including statistical analysis and tolerance analysis

• Demonstrated capability in developing embedded hardware systems with associated design documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering with emphasis on embedded processor architectural system design and C or C++ programming
• Knowledge of regulations and industry standards for medical device development including but not limited to ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and FDA Guidance for medical device development.

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

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.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission: why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

EP

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.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, Pedia Sure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest live

The base pay for this position is

$114,000.00 – $228,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

DIVISION:

ADC Diabetes Care:

LOCATION:

United States > Alameda : 1360-1380 South Loop Road

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Not specified

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

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