Staff Product Development Engineer

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Under Director oversight, the Staff Engineer will drive engineering duties associated with the design, research, development, and implementation of complex research and product development projects, to completion, in the regenerative medicine medical device space addressing unmet clinical needs.

• Independently determines and develops approach to solutions. 
• Represents the organization as the primary technical contact on projects. Interacts with senior internal or external personnel on significant technical matters requiring coordination between organizations.
• The employee must conduct their work activities in compliance with AbbVie internal requirements and applicable regulatory requirements, including 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485 and ISO 14971.  AbbVie internal requirements include compliance with ethics, environmental health and safety, financial, human resources, and general business policies, requirements and objectives.
• On-site, in-office and R&D laboratory presence.
• No expected direct supervisory responsibilities, but will lead a technical project sub-team or workstream(s) in the design and development of new products.

New Product Development: Typically serves as Product Development representative on cross-functional project teams within the Business Stage Gate Process; establishes technical strategies and defines tasks, deliverables, and timelines, budgets and resource needs with project sub-team and leads the execution of the established technical strategies with a focus on Early Stage Product Development.

• Partners with Marketing and cross-functional stakeholders to establish user requirements and translates them into clinically relevant technical requirements through research, experiments, and customer interactions.
• Applies product risk management (ISO 14971) to design inputs, design outputs, and risk control measures.
• Prepare for and lead formal Design Reviews in accordance with Design Control.
• Develops and/or applies physical and mathematical models in support of product design; develops experimental designs and protocols to demonstrate product feasibility; analyzes and resolves complex design problems associated with product performance.
• Designs products, including prototype development of devices, fabrication, prototype/sample testing and analysis; applies understanding of surgical and medical procedures, products and trends in related therapeutic area to product design.
• Designs novel test methods and testing fixtures and apparatus in support of technical strategies and readiness for design verification.
• Develops technical specifications to meet requirements; applies advanced engineering principles to the design, fabrication, testing and evaluation of products and when resolving technical challenges.
• Prepares and delivers technical and project presentations to internal and external customers, including senior management.
• Identifies outside vendors and consultants to ensure the delivery of supplies or services needed to meet scheduled timelines.
• Leads technical reviews; reviews and approves the work of more junior engineers, scientists and lab associates.
• Coaches and mentors junior technical staff.
• SME for Design Control deliverables in audits (ad hoc).
  
  ​​​​​​​Innovation & R&D Process Efficiency:​​​​​​​
• Innovates by identifying, investigating, and evaluating existing technology.
• Designs and implements new methodologies, materials, machines, processes or products.
• Process and system improvements to facilitate efficient project execution.
• Executes against the overall strategy for the Plastics and Regenerative Medicine Franchise.

New Product Development:  

• Bachelors Degree in engineering or related field with 9+ years Product Development experience, or Masters degree with 7+ years Product Development experience, or PhD with 4+ years Product Development experience required.
• Detailed understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories, and concepts in the field.  General knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical journals and procedures and governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, documentation and procedures.  
• Ability to learn and function in a controlled environment regulated by FDA GMPs and handle confidential data.
• Medical device and/or combination product experience in a regulated environment.
• Experience developing products within a business stage gate process (preferred).
• Experience and expertise in user needs and development of technical requirements. 
• Experience and expertise observing medical devices used in surgical and office-based clinical settings to inform development of use-case scenarios for application into User Needs, Technical Requirements, Human Factors, and Product Risk Management deliverables.
• Experience in medical device development for early stage clinical studies using medical devices, such as First-in-Human studies.
• Experience working in a laboratory environment.
• Ability to travel if needed, ~5-10% of time project dependent.

Other Professional Skills:

• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Ability to exercise judgment both within defined procedures and policies and balanced across technical and business needs
• Ability to prioritize and manage concurrent projects.
• Ability to manage diverse, simultaneous projects of varying complexities
• Self-motivated; ability to execute under minimal supervision
• Identifies, understands and proactively mitigates technical/product risk
• Ability to communicate highly technical information in a clear and easy-to-understand way (both verbally and in writing)
• Demonstrated strong business acumen
• Team leadership experience
• Applied experience with statistical analysis; experience using Minitab preferred
• Demonstrated understanding of advanced engineering principles and practices
• Design Control and Product Risk Management knowledge
• Experience with complex experimental design
• Product development experience
• Experience using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) programs; Solidworks preferred
• Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Outlook

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

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