System Engineer III

Employment Type: Full-time

Location Type: Remote

Salary: $75,300.00 – $150,700.00 (Note: Pay range may vary by specific location)

Position Overview

Abbott is a global healthcare leader dedicated to improving lives through innovative technologies across diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines. We are seeking a remote System Engineer III to join our team, contributing to a modern tech stack that enhances the health and well-being of users in over 25 countries. This role involves supporting the development of scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS. The ideal candidate will be passionate about software engineering, possess a desire for continuous learning, demonstrate leadership qualities, and aim to shape the direction of the team.

Responsibilities

• Act as an internal product and technology expert, translating business requirements into technical specifications.
• Collaborate with internal software architects, developers, and external product managers to ensure business needs are mapped to product features.
• Play a crucial role in the software development process by helping customers define needs, validating designs with architects, and ensuring built products meet requirements.
• Work with customer product managers to uncover, understand, and translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans align with expectations by collaborating effectively with internal and external teams (developers, architects, QA, operations, regulatory).
• Serve as the product expert by providing internal and customer training, answering product-related questions, and assessing/addressing technical risks.
• Act as a product evangelist and subject matter expert for the customer community.
• Facilitate and participate in the creation and maintenance of product documentation.
• Develop and prioritize user stories, including success criteria for testing and product acceptance.
• Develop and maintain feature backlogs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or scientific discipline.
• 4+ years of relevant experience and a BS degree, OR 2 years of relevant experience and an MS degree, OR equivalent years of education and experience in Engineering and Sciences.
• Solid knowledge of general engineering/science principles and laboratory skills.
• Strong knowledge of defined development processes consistent with ISO, FDA design control standards, or requirements.
• Knowledge of contemporary design control and risk management practices.
• Understanding of the electro-mechanical, software, mathematical, chemical, or biochemical processes operative in diagnostic systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels within the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Medical Devices or other regulated fields is preferred.

Company Information

Abbott is a global healthcare leader with 114,000 colleagues serving people in over 160 countries. Our life-changing technologies span the healthcare spectrum.

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