Hybrid Systems Engineer II at Abbott

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 St. Paul, MN location is seeking an ambitious, self-driven, and detail-oriented individual to join our Electrophysiology (EP) Systems Engineering team. Individuals in this role will assist in translating stakeholder needs, participating in system architecture definition, writing system and product requirements, developing and executing characterization activities, and be instrumental in ensuring our products exceed our user’s expectations. Other work may include supporting V&V, identifying and mitigating system hazards, and investigating field issues.

What You’ll Work On

• Review stakeholder needs and translate them into system requirements
• Review, create, and update system architecture.
• Decompose and allocate system behavior to derive product requirements
• Develop and execute system characterization activities.
• Work closely with cross functional team members including Marketing, Product R&D, Preclinical Engineering, Design Assurance, Regulatory, and Verification teams to ensure that design implementations satisfy their respective requirements.
• Support system verification and validation activities.
• Work as part of a systems engineering team on new product development programs.
• Utilize multidisciplinary engineering knowledge and experience to design, develop, and troubleshoot new products in the cardiac mapping and ablation space.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical engineering, or related discipline.
• 2+ years of experience in R&D environment or medical device field or equivalent.

Desired Characteristics

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or related discipline.
• Matlab or other programming experience.
• Holistic system-level thinker capable of speaking abstractly at a system level while also being able to dive into technical discussions at the product and FW/SW levels.
• Working knowledge of cardiac anatomy and electrophysiology.
• Working knowledge of ISO 29148 and ISO 15288.

Personal Attributes

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Be innovative, resourceful, and work with minimal direction.
• Have excellent organization, problem solving, communication, and team leadership skills.
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Passion for technology and a willingness to learn.

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