Senior Product Development Engineer

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.

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.

As a Senior Product Development Engineer, you will be part of the Abbott R&D team supporting the development, verification, and continuous improvement of innovative medical device systems. The primary focus of this role will be leading design verification activities, developing robust test methods, authoring protocols and reports, investigating product performance issues, and driving engineering solutions through design changes and corrective actions.

As product development programs advance, this individual will also contribute to new product design, prototype development, subsystem ownership, and design transfer activities. The ideal candidate combines strong design verification expertise with solid mechanical engineering fundamentals and hands‑on product development experience.

This is a senior individual contributor role requiring technical leadership, sound engineering judgment, strong written communication skills, and the ability to independently drive complex engineering deliverables in a fast‑paced product development environment.

This is a full‑time onsite position based in Santa Clara, CA, requiring onsite presence five days per week.

• Lead design verification activities for medical device systems and subsystems, including development of protocols, test methods, and fixtures; test execution, statistical data analysis, and report authorship.
• Lead failure investigations, root cause analyses, and implementation of design improvements and corrective actions.
• Design mechanical components, assemblies, fixtures, prototypes, and test hardware using Solid Works, and develop associated engineering documentation including drawings, specifications, and BOMs.
• Support product development through concept evaluation, prototyping, testing and design refinement.
• Apply engineering analysis, risk management principles, GD&T, tolerance stack‑ups, and sound engineering judgment to drive technical decisions.
• Support supplier development, component qualification, manufacturing readiness, and design transfer activities.
• Communicate technical findings through reports, presentations, and design reviews, while providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers.
• Maintain compliance with Abbott procedures and documentation requirements, FDA regulations, ISO standards, and applicable quality system requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering,…