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Sr. Scientist, Process Dev & Automation
Abbott Laboratories · 🇺🇸 United States > Madison : 1 Exact Lane
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 roles1 certified filing for “Senior Process Scientist Operations” (Biochemists and Biophysicists) in IL: $105k–$105k, median $105k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 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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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: Position Overview The Product Development and Automation Senior Scientist provides services of a technical nature to support the development, implementation, and maintenance of automation, IT, and software systems used in the clinical laboratory. The Product Development and Automation Senior Scientist will perform moderate and highly complex analytical processes to support feasibility and validation studies. This includes wet lab testing for feasibility, verification and validation of lab automation, workflow, and software. This role will also be responsible for performing user acceptance testing (UAT), and validation of Laboratory information system (LIS) system changes and upgrades. This role will collaborate with end users and LIS developers to address needed improvements to current modules, design requirements for new test systems, validation, and implementation of the changes. Once resources are identified, can get a project off the ground and running with minimal support from management. Can make new processes, systems, validation methods or projects successful. Essential Duties Include, but are not limited to, the following: • Assist in UAT testing • Edit and review controlled documents within the laboratory document control system to support changes or implementation of software and process changes. • Contributes ideas and insights to new technologies, testing methodologies, applications, techniques or procedures that are creative and practical. Provides input for project design & development. • Accurately estimates task effort, including work by others. • Develops process architectures and functional specifications based on user and workflow requirements. Leads planning activities and conducts complex scientific design, platform eligibility testing, systems integration, or performance testing. • Makes decisions that involve the consideration of complex issues. • Works autonomously and checks-in as decisions are made. • Responds to change with flexibility and adapts quickly. • Discusses and presents factual information to other members of the same organization; Ability to convey very complex information in both written and oral form. Actively and constructively contributes to other’s designs through design reviews within same organization. • Facilitates reuse by communicating available technologies and opportunities within the organization. • Able to influence others and gain acceptance and build consensus. • Ability to manage moderately complex projects and initiatives, typically within one platform or business organization. • Acts as a mentor / role model for junior team members on technical issues. • Ability to apply project leadership skills in planning, delegating, influencing, and managing priorities. • Beginning to demonstrate leadership behaviors: humility, will, best team and vision • Demonstrates understanding of company’s internal and external customer needs and how they affect business unit products and services. • Brings company and industry knowledge as well as creative technical/scientific skills to product creation; recognized as a content, sub-discipline specialist across the company. • Work with training teams to ensure timely and effective process change implementation in the laboratories. • Perform moderate and/or highly complex analytic processes, without direct supervision. • Evaluate data to calculate statistics for