Engineer I, Product Analysis

Abbott • Los Angeles, CA

4d • $73,900 - $116,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology. Working 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. This position works out of our 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.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree Electrical Engineering preferred, or Engineering, Science, or closely related discipline OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• No Experience
• Requires comprehensive written and verbal communication, interpersonal, facilitation, presentation, quantitative, analytical, organizational, and follow-up skills, the ability to meet deadlines on multiple projects as well as the ability to converse effectively with all levels of employees.
• A documented record of delivering reliability engineering information which adds value to management’s decision making process is required.
• Personal computer skills including spreadsheet, word processing database management, and specialized applications.
• Must be able to handle multiple assignments.

Nice To Haves

• Perform failure analysis on explanted biomedical implant product.
• Provide technical expertise to the Product Analysis Laboratory.
• Analyzes failures, develops and implements investigative protocols to identify root causes, performs circuit analysis, performs device and component level failure analysis.

Responsibilities

• Perform failure analysis on explanted long term biomedical implant product.
• Work requires the application of theoretical principals, evaluation, ingenuity, and creative/analytical techniques to identify route cause failure mechanisms.
• Must be able to meet deadlines on multiple assignments and be able to operate in a diverse cross-functional team environment.
• Proactive in finding quality improvements related to Failure Analysis.
• May serve as lead and assign work to less experienced personnel and serves as a mentor when assisting less experienced lab staff in solving more complex problems.
• Works cross functionally and collaboratively with Product Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Product Surveillance.
• Aides in definition of test equipment as required to accomplish quality responsibilities.
• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.
• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.
• Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, band vendors.

Benefits

• Free medical coverage for employees via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level