Systems Engineer III

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.

The Opportunity

This role will be working with our team on-site at our Alameda, California location. You will work with a modern tech stack to improve the health and well-being of users in over 25 countries in a large-scale system responsible for processing billions of messages daily.   The candidate should bring passion for hardware development and a desire for continuous learning as well as versatility, leadership qualities and a desire to shape the direction of the team.

The Systems Engineer is responsible for being our internal product and technology expert who can work with our internal technical architects, developers and external product managers to make sure their business requirements are properly mapped to the features and capabilities of our products. You will play a crucial role in our hardware development process to help our customers define their needs, work with our architects to validate our designs meet those needs and ensure what we build meets the requirements.

The Systems Engineer III will work closely with all parts of the business to help us deliver great products.

What You’ll Do

·       Work with our customer's product managers to uncover, understand, and translate business needs into technical requirements.

·       Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations by working well with internal and external teams, including developers, architects, quality assurance, operations, and regulatory.

·       Operate as our product expert by providing internal and customer training on how to use the product, answering incoming questions about the product and its capabilities, assessing and addressing technical risk

·       Serve as a product evangelist and subject matter expert to our customer community.

·       Facilitate and participate in the creation and maintenance of proper product documentation.

·       Develop and prioritize user stories, along with success criteria for testing and product acceptance.

·       Develop and maintain feature backlogs. 

·       Work deeply on risk management activities, particularly with the manufacturing organization on process FMEAs and design transfer activities.

Required Qualifications

·       Bachelor's degree in an engineering or scientific discipline. 

·       4+ yrs relevant experience and a BS degree or 2 yrs relevant experience and a MS degree or equivalent years of education and experience in Engineering and Sciences.

·       Solid knowledge of general engineering/science principles and laboratory skills.

·       Strong knowledge of defined development process that is consistent with ISO, FDA design control standards or requirements. Knowledge of contemporary design control and risk management practices. 

·       Understanding of the electro-mechanical, software, mathematical, chemical or biochemical process operative in diagnostic systems.

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

Preferred Qualifications

·       Medical Device or other regulated field experience preferred.

·       Experience with hardware systems including manufacturing and assembly

The base pay for this position is $90,000.00 – $180,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

• hardware development
• design control
• risk management
• iso standards
• fda design control
• product documentation
• user story development
• feature backlog management
• process fmea
• design transfer
• electro-mechanical systems
• software systems
• laboratory skills
• stakeholder management
• medical device regulations
• manufacturing systems
• assembly
• training delivery