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Director, Human Factors Engineering
Abbott Laboratories · 🇺🇸 United States > Milpitas : 1820 McCarthy Blvd
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 28 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Abbott Laboratories paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Director, IT Architecture” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in IL: $188k–$205k, median $197k. Most were filed at wage level IV (50%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Abbott Laboratories
The US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 28 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON: Provides leadership, vision and direction of the ADC Human Factors Engineering and Usability Function. Responsible for developing and leveraging product development, data interpretation and establishing external relationships to drive human factors and usability work. Collaborates across R&D and the division to develop tools to optimize products and development programs strategy and budgets. Develops processes, tools, and methods that advance evaluation of product designs and concepts at all phases of design. Collaborates with upstream partners (product managers, market research, UX designers, etc.) to streamline development and de-risks development efforts. Responsible for effective people leadership, up to Sr. Manager level staff. Conduct high level program management coordination and strategic division ownership for a wide range of analytical methodologies, approaches and techniques for product characterization. Manage direct reports at manager, and administrative levels. Provide management guidance for their organizations to ensure market leading use of technology and product development. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES • Directs activities to ensure new product development activities are achieved within agreed upon scope, timeline, and budget • Recruits, coaches and develops organizational talent • Fosters a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives • Creates an entrepreneurial environment • Provides general direction to managers, exempt specialist and non-exempt support in various areas, groups and/or operations • Keeps the organization’s vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action • Plans and conducts worldwide customer, competitive, and software industry research to identify and prioritize usability improvement possibilities and solutions • Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives. Interacts internally and externally with executive level management, outside regulatory agencies, customers, vendors and/or suppliers • Coordinates across functional areas, business units, and/or geographies in order to achieve Division goals • Provides global strategic marketing, engineering management, and staff with training and mentoring on usability • theory, resources, and technology. • Monitors and ensures compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA regulations, etc.) • •Makes and executes operational decisions with a strategic perspective • Directs and controls the activities and budget of one or more functional areas, product groups and/or third party vendors. QUALIFICATIONS: • Bachelor’s or M.S. degree in Human Factors Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or other scientific or engineering field. • 10-15 years of management and technical management experience in the medical device industry with minimum 5 years at a senior management role. • Demonstrated track record of building and driving high performance teams in a highly regulated environment – you have shipped multiple products. • Experience leading Human Factors activities across the product lifecycle, including ethnographic research, user needs identification, workflow and task analysis, requirements development, user interface design, user e