Sr. R&D Engineer

Location: United States - California - Menlo Park

Category: Research & Development

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 122,000 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

This position works out of our Menlo Park, CA location in the SH division.

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist.

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

As the Senior R&D Engineer, you will be responsible for providing mechanical engineering support in the creation and the development of new medical device products (invasive and non-invasive).

What You’ll Work On

• Develop new concepts from initial design to market release.
• Develop processes to transform concepts into commercial devices
• Maintain detailed documentation throughout all phases of research and development.
• Conduct feasibility studies to verify capability and functionality.
• Write and submit intellectual property (patents).
• Investigate and evaluate existing technologies.
• Review or coordinate vendor activities to support development.
• Establish and cultivate an extensive network of support to facilitate completion of assignments.
• May lead a project team.
• Participate in determining goals and objectives for projects.
• Influence middle management on technical or business solutions.
• Initiate or maintain work schedule.
• Establish priorities of work assignments.
• Exercise judgment in selecting innovative, practical methods to achieve problem resolution.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in related field and/or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Masters Degree preferred.
• Minimum 6 years related work experience with a strong understanding of medical device.
• Wide application of technical principles, practices, and procedures. 
• Experience with CAD.
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment. 
• Work on problems of diverse scopes where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Exercise judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

Apply Now

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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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.