Senior Systems Engineer – Neuromodulation Devices

Abbott Laboratories; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 99,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

Health and wellness benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Abbott Neuromodulation in Plano, Texas seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to lead architecture and requirements for complex implantable platforms. This senior IC will translate clinical and business needs into robust system solutions across hardware, firmware, software, and mechanics.

The successful candidate will guide cross‑disciplinary teams, manage risks, and ensure regulatory readiness while delivering safe, high-performing products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in systems, Biomedical, Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, or Software Engineering, or a related engineering or scientific field.
• 8+ years of R&D or product-development experience, including systems engineering, system design, or requirements architecture for complex multidisciplinary products.
• Demonstrated experience defining system architectures, requirements, interfaces, design tradeoffs, and verification strategies.
• Experience guiding cross-functional design alignment across hardware, firmware, software, and clinical disciplines to resolve complex technical issues.
• Strong technical leadership, communication, and influence skills, with the ability to lead without direct authority.
• Experience working in a regulated development environment and applying risk management, design controls, and relevant industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead system architecture, design, and requirements strategy for complex neuromodulation products and technology platforms.
• Translate patient, clinician, customer, and business needs into measurable system performance requirements, design inputs, and acceptance criteria.
• Guide system design across electrical hardware, sensing, embedded firmware, algorithms, external software, mechanical interfaces, and multidisciplinary subsystems.
• Define and assess system behaviors, performance budgets, tradeoffs, operating parameters, and failure modes to reduce technical risk and optimize safety, usability, reliability, and product performance.
• Partner with firmware and software teams to shape embedded control, signal-processing, and data-analysis algorithms; establish system-level requirements and verification approaches for those capabilities.
• Lead cross‑functional design reviews, technical investigations, and root‑cause analyses; communicate clear recommendations that resolve complex system issues.
• Guide development and execution of system characterization tests to drive design and requirements, define operating ranges/tolerances, and establish performance budgets.
• Apply risk management, design‑control practices, and industry standards appropriate for regulated medical devices; support design history file documentation, regulatory submissions, and audit readiness.
• Influence platform strategy, technology roadmaps, and engineering practices through sound technical judgment and a whole‑system perspective.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen systems engineering capability through technical leadership, knowledge sharing, and disciplined problem solving.

Skills

Systems engineering

Cross-functional leadership

Regulated development

Architectures & requirements

Risk management

Communication skills

Influence without authority

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems/Engineering

Job description

Abbott Neuromodulation in Plano, Texas seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to lead architecture and requirements for complex implantable platforms. This senior IC will translate clinical and business needs into robust system solutions across hardware, firmware, software, and mechanics.

The successful candidate will guide cross‑disciplinary teams, manage risks, and ensure regulatory readiness while delivering safe, high-performing products.