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. 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. 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 The Systems Engineering Manager, Sustaining will work within R&D from either our Alameda, CA or Milpitas CA facilities. Key responsibilities include utilizing telemetry data to understand product performance in the field and maintaining living risk files for on market products. What you’ll work on Work with product owner, as a customer represent hardware and firmware teams, for ongoing development of telemetry system. Guide analysis of telemetry data to gain insights into product behavior in the field. Effectively communicate with development teams, driving product improvement. Maintaining living risk assessments, design documentation, and other design history file documents to address newly identified risks, emerging standards, and product improvements. Review risk evaluations. Review of medical device reports in MAUDE databases for previously unrecognized risks/hazards. Work with organization to mitigate these risks Work with development teams on feedback learning from sustaining activities. Maintain best practices and drive continuous improvement activities. Cultivate solid working relationships cross functional teams. Investigate complaints from on market products. Write and submit engineering change orders in Agile (a product lifecycle management tool). Provide guidance and/or act as independent review in programs not directly involved. Communicate effectively and participate on cross functional development teams with good negotiating skills to direct multi-disciplinary teams toward solutions. Comply with all applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and perform other duties as assigned by the Management Team.