Product Engineer II – Remote Care Operations

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works on site out of Sylmar, CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

The Associate Remote Care Product Engineer is responsible for understanding the integrated set of standards, sub-standards, and assemblies needed to provide remote care support for Abbott CRMD devices. Applies an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop and verify a life-cycle balanced system of systems and system/subsystems solution(s) which satisfies customer/operational needs and public/regulatory acceptability.  Troubleshooting complex systems and interactions with the full line of remote care capable Abbott devices and supporting hardware will be the primary focus.

Responsibilities

• Participates in system, software, hardware testing planning reviews to support assessment of performance against design specification; reliability testing, and assessment of system interactions.
• Assist in troubleshooting issues to determine root cause and identifying possible solutions.
• On a 24-hour “on call basis” (rotating between other department employees), provides technical support services (once every two months for one week)
• Provide support for mobile apps, mobile device hardware and work with mobile service providers to maintain and trouble shoot field issues.
• Apply process and work methodologies by interfacing and communicating system level issues with peers/cross-functional groups.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Biomedical Engineering or Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related Bachelor's degree.
• 1-2+ years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical proficiency, creativity, and independent thought.

• Experience with system analysis and cross-functional teamwork and decision making.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of Systems Engineering principles; ability to apply Systems Engineering principles to assigned task or activity.

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