Senior Staff R&D Engineer

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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 Santa Clara, CA location in the Ventures division. 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. We are recruiting for a Senior Staff R&D Engineer to join our Ventures organization in Santa Clara, CA. This is a unique opportunity to join the transcatheter mitral valve replacement program that is developing a first of its kind technology solution for patients suffering from mitral valve disease who could benefit from transfemoral prosthetic mitral valve replacement. The individual who fills this role will play a pivotal part in the design, development, and testing of this TMVR delivery system from early clinical feasibility through commercialization. The candidate will be responsible for providing engineering expertise in its creation and the development of this class 3 medical device product in this desirable technology space.

What You'll Work On

• Design develop, research, and analyze mechanical, components, assemblies, processes, and/or equipment to advance the delivery system catheter for transfemoral/transseptal percutaneous mitral valve replacement.
• Plan and execute feasibility studies to verify capability and functionality.
• Iterate on new catheter delivery system concepts from initial design to market release.
• Design experiments to inform design decisions, failure analysis and assess criticalities of different design issues.
• Generate intellectual property (patents).
• Form a detailed Design history file.
• Manage partners and suppliers.
• Lead while inducing a collaborative productive work environment.
• Plan non-routine tasks w/ minimal supervision based on informed expertise.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 10 years in medical device development and/or other highly regulated industry.
• Expertise using Solidworks.
• Hands-on experience with trans-catheter heart valve delivery systems.
• Terrific verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advance degree in a technical field.
• Extensive knowledge of metals and polymers used in the catheter medical device industry.

The base pay for this position is $128,000.00 $256,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job Family: Product Development

Division: SH Structural Heart

Location: United States > Santa Clara : Building A - SC

Work Shift: Standard

Travel: No

Medical Surveillance: No

Significant Work Activities: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

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