What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff RF Engineer position at Abbott?
About Abbott
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.
Senior Staff RF Engineer Job Description
This position works out of our Pleasanton, CA office in our Heart Failure division. The team is focused on helping people with heart failure manage their health and ultimately change and save lives.
The Opportunity
This Senior Staff / Principal RF and Electromagnetics Engineer will be primarily working on the CardioMEMS HF system, which remotely monitors changes in pulmonary artery (PA) pressure, an early indicator of the onset of worsening heart failure, to aid physicians in preventing worsening heart failure, lower heart failure mortality rates, and improve quality of life for our heart failure patients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to a team committed to delivering the next generation of CardioMEMS products to help our patients (and their clinicians) manage their heart failure
- Conduct bench and preclinical studies supporting product development teams for concept feasibility and formal regulatory submission
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of CardioMEMS electronic designs
- Draft test protocols and reports
- Independently plan, coordinate, and execute activity in support of project goals
- Support design reviews
- Support development of risk management documentation
- Gain an understanding of the quality and regulatory requirements of Abbott, FDA and ISO regulations
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics or equivalent experience.
Experience owning and driving deliverables within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment.
Proficient in collaborating with project stakeholders (client and internal), end-users, business partners, and technical team members.
Strong organizational and follow-up skills, as well as attention to detail.
Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate to all levels of the organization.
Demonstrated initiative in going beyond assigned tasks on own agency.
History of applying critical thinking to address design challenges.
Ability to plan, execute, analyze, and document individual scientific studies.
Ability to collect, organize, and analyze data using statistical methods.
