Senior Systems Engineer, Neuromodulation

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: Job Title Senior Systems Engineer, Neuromodulation Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. The Opportunity This position works out of our Plano, TX location in the Neuromodulation division. Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum. In this individual contributor role, you will drive systems engineering activities for complex active implantable medical device systems, translating clinical, user, and business needs into robust, verifiable solutions. You will maintain a whole-system perspective across implants, leads and electrodes, external accessories, patient and clinician applications, and their interfaces while helping guide development from concept through commercialization. What You'll Work On • Develop and maintain system architectures, design documentation, and system requirements for implantable neuromodulation systems, external devices, and software applications. • Translate patient, clinician, customer, and business needs into measurable system requirements, design inputs, acceptance criteria, and traceable engineering deliverables. • Define system behaviors, interfaces, workflows, operating modes, and architecture models while identifying gaps, conflicts, and risks across multidisciplinary systems. • Collaborate with electrical, firmware, software, mechanical, clinical, human factors, and business teams to evaluate concepts, resolve design tradeoffs, and support system integration. • Support risk management, verification and validation, system characterization, regulatory documentation, design reviews, and commercialization activities. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related engineering or scientific field. • 6+ years of relevant R&D or product development experience, including systems engineering, system design, or requirements development for complex multidisciplinary products. • Demonstrated experience defining or developing system architectures, requirements, subsystem allocations, interfaces, design tradeoffs, and verification approaches. • Working understanding of how hardware, embedded firmware, software, mechanical components, and user in