Electrical System Integration and Test Engineer

Job description

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 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

This is a unique position for a Senior System Integration and Test Engineer possessing a combination of hardware, software, and testing experience with medical products.

This Electrical Engineer will be expected to work under minimal supervision.  Their primary responsibility will be system-level design integration and test of low power mixed signal implantable and external medical products.  Specifically, these include neurostimulators, patient controllers, and physician programming devices.  This individual will need to interface with Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, R&D, and other groups as necessary to accomplish project requirements

The Successful Candidate Must:

• Strong understanding of Design Controls, Verification, Validation and Design Transfer.
• Develop Design Input, Output, Verification and Validation plan for Design Function
• Develop and execute Verification and Validation protocols based on system requirements
• Develop and initiate sampling procedures and statistical process control methods
• Drive quality control activities (including, but not limited to, FMEA, Hazard Analysis etc.)
• Develop test strategies to determine the best means of providing design verification and reliability.
• Validate test methods using equipment qualification, software validation, DOE, and measurement analysis.
• Develop and qualify new test tools and protocols, ensuring that test objectives are effectively incorporated.
• Coordinate assigned projects resources (technical and equipment) maximizing test throughput efficiency
• Plan time and priorities in an effective manner to achieve all tasks assigned with the objective of assuring data integrity and compliance.
• Apply design for reliability (DFR) and design for test (DFT) concepts (DFMEA, FTA, etc) during the product development process to ensure that designs are intrinsically reliable.
• Analyze test data for conformance to pre-determined acceptance criteria and prepare formal reports and results summaries.
• Assist the engineering team in failure investigations / root cause analysis for problems identified during lab testing and field issues.
• Work with lab technicians, both internal and external, to execute and troubleshoot product testing
• Use problem-solving skills: 5Ms, 5 Whys, Gage R&R, etc. to determine the root cause of issues.

Experience & Training: 

• Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering
• Minimum of 6 yrs of experience as an Electrical Test or Systems / Application Test Engineer in the Medical Devices Industry.
• Strong expertise with PC applications including MS Word, MS Project, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with higher level programming languages.
• MRI or RF experience is a plus

Other Skills/Characteristics: 

• Must be a self-starter with strong problem solving, technical writing, and communication skills.
• Must be customer service oriented and experienced at interaction on all levels of engineering professionals.

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