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.

We are recruiting for a Associate R&D Engineer-Ventures Trans-Catheter Mitral Valve to join our team in Santa Clara, CA . This is a unique opportunity to join an early-stage development team that provides solutions to patients suffering from mitral valve disease. The position is on a fast-paced, early product development team within Abbott’s Ventures Organization. The individual who fills this role will play a pivotal part in the design, development and testing of this novel trans-septal prosthetic tissue mitral valve delivery system from early clinical feasibility through commercialization. Candidate will be responsible for providing engineering expertise in the creation and the development of the Catheter Delivery System for this class 3 medical device product in the fast-growing market of mitral valve replacement.

Decision Making/Impact: Exercise’s judgment in selecting innovative, practical methods to achieve problem resolution. Failure to obtain results or erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in serious program delays and considerable expenditure of resources

Technical/Business Knowledge: Wide application of technical principles, practices, and procedures. Strong understanding of business unit function and cross group dependencies/relationships. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.

Cognitive Skills: Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Exercises judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Has a sound knowledge of various technical alternatives and their impact.

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of STRUCTURAL HEART disease. We aim to lead the markets we serve by requiring the solutions we offer customers provide an improved benefit/risk profile as compared to existing standards of care; a performance threshold that, guides and ensures the productive output of our engineering, business development, and clinical research efforts result in outcomes that advance the standard of care.

What You’ll Work On

• Researches, develops, designs, and evaluates mechanical, components, assemblies, processes and/or equipment to advance development of this catheter-based delivery system for trans-septal percutaneous mitral valve replacement

• Develops and iterates on new catheter delivery system concepts from initial design to market release

• Write and submit intellectual property (patents)

• Maintains detailed documentation throughout all phases of research and development

• Investigates and evaluates existing technologies

• Reviews or coordinates vendor activities to support development

• Interacts with vendors to leverage outside Abbott expertise

• Plans and organizes non-routine tasks with supervision to deliver appreciated results based on informed expertise

• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors

• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting designs, methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, preferably mechanical or biomedical engineering.

• 2-5+ years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area, or Master's degree with 0-2 years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

• Ability to work well independently and as a member of a team is essential

• Effective communication, listening, and diagnostic skills, verbal and written, are necessary. The demonstration of effective collaboration and influencing skills will be key so that the candidate can achieve results within the cross functional team and with stakeholders around the company

Preferred Qualifications

• CAD experience required (SolidWorks preferred).

• Familiar with common materials, processes, and practices to produce catheter based medical devices.

• Technical ability and passion for understanding complex mechanical designs, risk management and design controls

• Experience with GD&T, stack-up analysis, and mechanical testing.

• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.

• Multitasks, prioritizes, and meets deadlines in timely manner.

• Strong organizational and follow-up skills, as well as attention to detail.

• Has broad knowledge of various technical alternatives and their potential impact on the business.

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The base pay for this position is $55,200.00 – $110,400.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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