Staff Systems Engineer Abbott · Sylmar, CA

QuickCruit, Inc.; California, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott in Sylmar, CA is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to lead large, complex programs with a strong element of novelty. You will translate customer needs and performance requirements into total system solutions while balancing technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

You will organize and manage work across disciplines, guide teams, verify designs, and document results. You will serve as a subject matter expert on system behaviors, trade-offs, and applications, partnering with stakeholders

Qualifications

• Experience leading large, complex programs across multiple disciplines.
• Ability to translate requirements into system-level solutions.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Leads programs with significant novelty and cross-disciplinary integration.
• Plans and executes the department strategy; frames problems and tracks progress.
• Organizes and manages work to deliver programs and lead execution.
• Designs and conducts system-level characterization and verification of complex systems.
• Serves as SME on system behaviors and customer needs to meet business objectives.

Skills

Program management

Systems thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

# Staff Systems EngineerAbbott · Sylmar, CATailor My ResumeStart free. No credit card.### About the JobAbbott 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 DESCRIPTION:### About the roleSummarize the main purpose of the role.Accountable for delivering entire programs or complex, significant portions of programs with some level of novelty. Also accountable for organizing and managing work, investigating issues, defining behaviors, leading others in the executing of work, applying expertise and verifying designs and products for systems. Accountable for applying an expert understanding of applications, customer needs to be addressed, behaviors and architected solutions to streamline product development in addition to ensuring product quality. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer requirements and performance requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Primarily supports one key major program, but may advise other multiple efforts.### Responsibilities•Leads programs while exercising significant novelty and integration across various disciplines as well as team members. Applies a demonstrated portfolio-centric approach to developing programs which are incorporated into platform strategies that achieve “win/win” scenarios for assigned efforts and platforms.•Plans and executes the department strategy to deliver upon responsibilities; gathers information, frames problems, devises/executes plans, tracks progress, and adjusts/measures success within scope of responsibility to improve development efforts as well as the organization. Applies skills to planning product development work; capturing requirements, designing solutions, defining behaviors, investigating issues, evaluating trade-offs, and verifying output.•Organizes and manages work to deliver programs, leads in the execution of assigned work. Prioritizes tasks by distinguishing urgent from important tasks and assess cost/benefit trade-offs.•Design and conduct system level characterization/verification of complex systems; collect, organize, analyze, and document test results.•Develops and applies an expert understand of designated systems as well as serves as a subject matter expert for the development team regarding behaviors, implementation trade-offs, customer needs, satisfaction of customer needs, clinical applications, and the applicable technologies required to solve problems and deliver upon business objectives. Participates in broad cross-functional reviews of work output.