Manager Electrical Engineering

Location: United States - California - Alameda

Category: Operations

Employment Type: Full time

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.

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

Join us at Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC) in our mission to help individuals with diabetes lead active, fulfilling lives. We’re focused on helping people manage their health more effectively and comfortably, with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decision

Our teams in Milpitas and Alameda, CA currently have an opportunity for a Manager, Embedded Electrical Systems. In this role, you will lead and manage electrical engineers in the design, development, and troubleshooting of critical electrical systems. You will guide the team in identifying, recommending, and implementing significant and complex improvements or new embedded electrical technologies that meet regulatory requirements. The position may involve overseeing multiple engineering initiatives, developing strong cross‑functional partnerships, and providing clear, effective communication to Senior Management.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead a team of electrical engineers in the design and development of electronics and firmware for battery-powered wireless embedded systems
• Communicate effectively to senior leadership
• Lead programs and cross-functional development teams
• Create career development programs for the team and develop medium-term planning for the growth of the process
• Manage resource allocation and budgeting for the function
• Develop sensitive, low noise, and low-power analog circuits
• Design RF wireless technologies including RF and inductive antenna design
• EMC/EMI design and testing per regulatory standards
• Design circuits and PCB layouts including DFM and DFT
• Develop electrical and product requirements and specifications, design FMEAs, and V&V test protocols
• Test, characterize, and verify electrical designs
• System modeling
• Ensure that electrical design and test equipment meet applicable industry and medical device standards
• Write and submit Engineering Change Orders into our product life cycle documentation system
• Comply with all applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and perform other duties as assigned by the Management Team

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
• 12 yrs experience in design engineering and at least 3 years of engineering management experience.
• Effectiveness in lead and manage engineering teams
• Mastery of fundamental Electrical Engineering principles
• Excellence at engineering design and analysis of embedded electrical systems
• Experience with real-time operating systems; freeRTOS, etc.
• Experience with battery powered devices
• Fluency in hardware and PCB design and experience in firmware development
• Understanding of processes used in the design and manufacture medical devices, particularly sensitive, low noise, low-current, wireless devices
• Working knowledge in writing product requirements and design specifications
• Excellence in written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with embedded microcontroller designs in medical devices
• Integrated circuit specification and application in low power designs experience
• Firmware development using C, C++, C#, etc.
• System modeling
• Experience in medical device development
• Experience with wireless systems (NFC, BLE, Cellular), ultra-low power analog design

The base pay for this position is $148,700.00 – $297,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.