Senior Requirement Engineer, Software

Abbott; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Senior Software Requirements Engineer to plan, elicit, create, and maintain high-quality software requirements for medical device software at the Sylmar facility in California. The role collaborates with systems engineering, software, verification, and clinical stakeholders to ensure requirements account for development, verification, and clinical aspects.

You will resolve tasks independently, applying technical and clinical knowledge, ensuring effective, efficient, and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing system, software, firmware, or related requirements.
• Strong ability to elicit, analyze, and document requirements with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Clear communication of complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Create, define, and maintain formal subsystem‑level software requirements.
• Analyze system requirements, user needs, and designs; collaborate to gather, refine, and validate requirements.
• Take ownership of features or updates, plan work, coordinate with team, and communicate progress.
• Lead and contribute to technical discussions and design reviews.
• Support investigation of proposed new features by assessing risk, complexity, and effort.
• Develop deep subject‑matter expertise in assigned areas to support development and verification teams.

Skills

Requirements Management

Requirements Elicitation

Clear Communication

Stakeholder Collaboration

Self-Direction

Detail Orientation

Learning & Knowledge Sharing

Conceptual Understanding

Medical Devices domain

Tools

IBM DOORS

Job description

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Main Purpose of the Role

The Senior Software Requirements Engineer is responsible for understanding subsystem features and applying an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, elicit, create, and maintain high‑quality software requirements.

This role works closely with systems engineering, software development, verification, and clinical stakeholders to evaluate system requirements and ensure that in addition to needed functions, software requirements appropriately account for code development, verification activities, and clinical aspects of software functionality.

The Senior Software Requirements Engineer supports product development by performing core requirements engineering activities—including investigating, defining, analyzing, and documenting requirements—for assigned projects and features. This position requires analytical thinking, technical judgment, and the application of engineering and scientific principles to solve complex technical problems.

The role involves independently resolving assigned tasks within projects by applying both technical and clinical understanding, exercising sound judgment in planning and executing work, and using effective, efficient, and best‑practice approaches to requirements management.

Main Responsibilities

• Create, define, and maintain formal subsystem‑level software requirements.
• Analyze system requirements, user needs, and system designs; collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders to gather, refine, and validate requirements.
• Take ownership of assigned features or updates, including planning work, coordinating with team members, communicating progress, and aligning activities with project leads.
• Lead and contribute to technical discussions and design reviews related to assigned features.
• Support investigation of proposed new features by assessing technical risk, implementation complexity, and development effort.
• Develop deep subject‑matter expertise in assigned areas, enabling effective support of development and verification teams and participation in systems engineering discussions related to new features and defect investigations.

Key Skills For Success In This Role

• Requirements Management Experience : 3+ years of experience managing system, software, firmware, or related requirements, including the use of tools such as IBM DOORS or equivalent.
• Requirements Elicitation and Analysis : Strong ability to elicit, analyze, and document requirements by engaging with stakeholders, subject matter experts, and cross‑functional teams.
• Clear Communication : Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Stakeholder Collaboration : Proven ability to work closely with team members, gather input, understand concerns, and incorporate feedback into well‑structured requirements.
• Self‑Direction and Ownership : Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and drive assigned investigations and deliverables to completion.
• Appropriate Level of Detail : Skill in tailoring the level of detail in requirements and documentation to suit the audience, purpose, and development phase.
• Learning and Knowledge Sharing : Ability to quickly learn new features, technologies, and domains through research, documentation review, and expert engagement, and effectively share this knowledge with the team.
• Conceptual Understanding : Strong aptitude for understanding new technical concepts and explaining them accurately and concisely to others.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with DOORS
• Experience working with medical devices specifically related to Jude Medical/Abbott Pacemakers, ICDs and ICMs

This position is for in‑person and on‑site work at the Abbott facility in Sylmar California.

The base pay for this position is $90,000.00 – $180,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.