Senior Systems Engineer, Neuromodulation

Abbott Laboratories; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 78,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Career development

Job summary

Abbott in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer in Neuromodulation to drive end-to-end systems engineering for implantable neuromodulation devices and related software.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate clinical and business needs into robust system requirements, architectures, and verification plans, ensuring regulatory compliance throughout development and commercialization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering/scientific field.
• 6+ years of R&D or product development experience in systems engineering for complex multidisciplinary products.
• Experience defining/developing system architectures, requirements, interfaces, and verification approaches.
• Experience in a regulated development environment with risk management and design controls.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain system architectures, design docs, and system requirements for implantable neuromodulation systems, external devices, and software applications.
• Translate patient, clinician, customer, and business needs into measurable system requirements, inputs, acceptance criteria, and traceable 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.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements development

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulated development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field

Tools

SysML

MBSE

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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 interactions integrate to determine overall system behavior, performance, and safety.
• Experience working in a regulated development environment and applying risk management, design controls, and relevant industry standards.
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills with the ability to structure ambiguous problems, document technical decisions, and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Class II or Class III medical devices, particularly active implantable devices, neuromodulation, cardiac rhythm management, or other electromechanical therapy systems.
• Experience taking one or more multidisciplinary products through the complete development lifecycle, from needs identification and concept development through system integration, verification, validation, and commercialization.
• Experience defining system requirements and interfaces for stimulation or sensing, implant-to-external-device communication, battery or charging systems, and patient or clinician software applications.
• Understanding of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SysML, or INCOSE-aligned practices, including experience using system models to support architecture, behavior, interface definition, and requirements analysis.
• INCOSE certification (such as CSEP) is a plus.
• Experience with requirements-management tools, user-centered design or human factors, and medical device standards such as ISO 13485, ISO 14971, ISO 14708, and IEC 60601, as applicable.

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The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.