Staff Engineer, Systems Integration
Abbott · La Jolla, California, United States · 1 mo ago
Research$99k–$199k/yrFull-time
We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes description about Abbott and role. We need headings: for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real specific content.
We need to parse content: The posting includes:
- Intro about Abbott (company description) and role description: "The Staff Engineer, Systems Engineering is a key problem solver..." That's about the role. Could be "About the role" section.
- Essential Duties Include but are not limited to the following: list of duties. That's responsibilities.
- Minimum Qualifications: list.
- Preferred Qualifications: list.
- The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 – $198,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted. That's Pay.
- No explicit Benefits, Schedule sections. There's mention of ability to work nights/weekends, travel, lifting, etc. Those could be considered "Schedule" or "Working Conditions". But schedule section only if posting actually states them. It does mention ability to work nights and/or weekends, ability to travel 15% of working time, etc. That's more about work requirements, not schedule. There's no explicit schedule like "Full-time", "Shift". Might not create Schedule section.
- Benefits: not mentioned. So omit.
- Skills: maybe we could extract from duties? But we should not invent. There's no explicit Skills section. Could we create a Skills section from list of abilities? The posting includes many ability statements: ability to lift, work seated/standing, travel, etc. Those are more like physical requirements, not skills. Could be under Requirements or Qualifications. Probably better to keep them under Requirements or Qualifications as part of minimum qualifications? They are not qualifications but job requirements. Could be under Requirements section.
We need to decide sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Minimum and Preferred?), Qualifications, Pay.
But we must not repeat headings with filler. Use only sections with real content.
We have:
- About the role: company description + role overview.
- Responsibilities: list of essential duties.
- Requirements: maybe combine Minimum Qualifications and physical/ability statements? Could separate Minimum Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications as separate sections? Both are specific content. Could have Requirements (minimum) and Preferred Qualifications (preferred). Or we could have Requirements and Qualifications. The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can have Requirements and Qualifications separate.
Thus:
- Requirements: Minimum Qualifications (Bachelor's degree, authorization, 10+ years experience, technical writing skills, ability to perform duties).
- Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications (list).
- Pay: base pay range.
We also have physical/ability statements: ability to work nights/weekends, lift, travel, etc. Those could be under Requirements as well (maybe as part of minimum qualifications). But they are not qualifications; they are job requirements. Could be included in Requirements section as bullet list.
We must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include those ability statements somewhere. Could add them under Requirements as bullet list.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep each bullet.
Let's extract bullets:
From Essential Duties list (starting after "Essential Duties Include but are not limited to the following :"):
- Assess design feasibility and test product functionality and/or confirm product capabilities.
- Responsible for test method development and lead V&V activities at the system level.
- Responsible for traceability of requirements to product design outputs.
- Participate in new product design and design improvements to existing products.
- Participate in the definition and creation of system architectures and documentation trees.
- Lead system integration activities during product design and V&V phases.
- Utilize Design of Experiment (DOE) as appropriate.
- Drives development and testing to assess performance against design specifications.
- Participate in Human Factors Engineering/Usability Engineering tasks and activities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Establish interfaces across other organizational groups.
- Work independently to apply technical expertise to lead efforts in system design, implementation, integration, and verification and validation (V&V) of medical devices and products.
- Participate in requirements management activities involving creation, decomposition, and traceability of requirements.
- Prepare and deliver presentations of project results to others; present data to larger and more diverse audiences.
- Participate in the evaluation and assessment of competitive products, processes, and/or new trends.
- Engage with the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to provide technical oversight and guidance on evolution of the design.
- Collaborate with hardware, software, and reagent team members to develop and implement product designs.
- Ensure the necessary documentation for V&V activities are included in the project Design History File (DHF).
- Assist in the development of manufacturing processes and troubleshooting issues to determine root cause and possible engineering solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure all development activities are conducted in adherence to applicable national/international regulations, guidelines, company policies, SOPs, and industry standards.
- Participate in product risk management activities involving system Hazard Analysis (HA) and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
- Participate in project planning, process updates, design reviews, and contributes to experimental design.
- Utilize integration, analytical, and troubleshooting skills to understand system interfaces and be able to quickly analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues.
- Apply working knowledge of DOE, analysis and interpretation of test results, failure investigation, and root cause failure analysis.
- Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality,
- Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
- Regular and reliable attendance.
- Ability to work nights and/or weekends.
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds for approximately 5% of a typical working day.
- Ability to work seated for approximately 75% of a typical working day.
- Ability to work standing for approximately 25% of a typical working day.
- Ability to comply with any applicable personal protective equipment requirements.
- Ability to perform repetitious actions using lab tools and equipment.
- Ability and means to travel between Redwood City locations.
- Ability to travel 15% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.
That's a long list; many are abilities.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Biochemistry, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including previous hands-on involvement as an engineer, scientist, or product developer working through a formal phase gate or new product development process in the IVD medical device industry (e.g., System Integration Engineer, System Development Engineer, or related occupation).
- Solid technical writing skills to produce reports and documents; writes independently; evaluates the writing of others.
- Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with instrument automation or scientific instrumentation.
- Six Sigma certification.
- Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) experience.
- Proficiency with formal requirements management tools.
- Advanced degree (Masters / PhD) in Biology, Biochemistry, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- Experience with next generation sequencing, immuno-histochemistry, in-situ hybridization, PCR, methylation.
- Experience with system analysis, model-based system engineering, and system architecture.
Pay:
- The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 – $198,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
Now we need to produce HTML fragment with headings
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real specific content.
We need to parse content: The posting includes:
- Intro about Abbott (company description) and role description: "The Staff Engineer, Systems Engineering is a key problem solver..." That's about the role. Could be "About the role" section.
- Essential Duties Include but are not limited to the following: list of duties. That's responsibilities.
- Minimum Qualifications: list.
- Preferred Qualifications: list.
- The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 – $198,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted. That's Pay.
- No explicit Benefits, Schedule sections. There's mention of ability to work nights/weekends, travel, lifting, etc. Those could be considered "Schedule" or "Working Conditions". But schedule section only if posting actually states them. It does mention ability to work nights and/or weekends, ability to travel 15% of working time, etc. That's more about work requirements, not schedule. There's no explicit schedule like "Full-time", "Shift". Might not create Schedule section.
- Benefits: not mentioned. So omit.
- Skills: maybe we could extract from duties? But we should not invent. There's no explicit Skills section. Could we create a Skills section from list of abilities? The posting includes many ability statements: ability to lift, work seated/standing, travel, etc. Those are more like physical requirements, not skills. Could be under Requirements or Qualifications. Probably better to keep them under Requirements or Qualifications as part of minimum qualifications? They are not qualifications but job requirements. Could be under Requirements section.
We need to decide sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Minimum and Preferred?), Qualifications, Pay.
But we must not repeat headings with filler. Use only sections with real content.
We have:
- About the role: company description + role overview.
- Responsibilities: list of essential duties.
- Requirements: maybe combine Minimum Qualifications and physical/ability statements? Could separate Minimum Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications as separate sections? Both are specific content. Could have Requirements (minimum) and Preferred Qualifications (preferred). Or we could have Requirements and Qualifications. The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can have Requirements and Qualifications separate.
Thus:
- Requirements: Minimum Qualifications (Bachelor's degree, authorization, 10+ years experience, technical writing skills, ability to perform duties).
- Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications (list).
- Pay: base pay range.
We also have physical/ability statements: ability to work nights/weekends, lift, travel, etc. Those could be under Requirements as well (maybe as part of minimum qualifications). But they are not qualifications; they are job requirements. Could be included in Requirements section as bullet list.
We must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include those ability statements somewhere. Could add them under Requirements as bullet list.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep each bullet.
Let's extract bullets:
From Essential Duties list (starting after "Essential Duties Include but are not limited to the following :"):
- Assess design feasibility and test product functionality and/or confirm product capabilities.
- Responsible for test method development and lead V&V activities at the system level.
- Responsible for traceability of requirements to product design outputs.
- Participate in new product design and design improvements to existing products.
- Participate in the definition and creation of system architectures and documentation trees.
- Lead system integration activities during product design and V&V phases.
- Utilize Design of Experiment (DOE) as appropriate.
- Drives development and testing to assess performance against design specifications.
- Participate in Human Factors Engineering/Usability Engineering tasks and activities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Establish interfaces across other organizational groups.
- Work independently to apply technical expertise to lead efforts in system design, implementation, integration, and verification and validation (V&V) of medical devices and products.
- Participate in requirements management activities involving creation, decomposition, and traceability of requirements.
- Prepare and deliver presentations of project results to others; present data to larger and more diverse audiences.
- Participate in the evaluation and assessment of competitive products, processes, and/or new trends.
- Engage with the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to provide technical oversight and guidance on evolution of the design.
- Collaborate with hardware, software, and reagent team members to develop and implement product designs.
- Ensure the necessary documentation for V&V activities are included in the project Design History File (DHF).
- Assist in the development of manufacturing processes and troubleshooting issues to determine root cause and possible engineering solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure all development activities are conducted in adherence to applicable national/international regulations, guidelines, company policies, SOPs, and industry standards.
- Participate in product risk management activities involving system Hazard Analysis (HA) and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
- Participate in project planning, process updates, design reviews, and contributes to experimental design.
- Utilize integration, analytical, and troubleshooting skills to understand system interfaces and be able to quickly analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues.
- Apply working knowledge of DOE, analysis and interpretation of test results, failure investigation, and root cause failure analysis.
- Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality,
- Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
- Regular and reliable attendance.
- Ability to work nights and/or weekends.
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds for approximately 5% of a typical working day.
- Ability to work seated for approximately 75% of a typical working day.
- Ability to work standing for approximately 25% of a typical working day.
- Ability to comply with any applicable personal protective equipment requirements.
- Ability to perform repetitious actions using lab tools and equipment.
- Ability and means to travel between Redwood City locations.
- Ability to travel 15% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.
That's a long list; many are abilities.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Biochemistry, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including previous hands-on involvement as an engineer, scientist, or product developer working through a formal phase gate or new product development process in the IVD medical device industry (e.g., System Integration Engineer, System Development Engineer, or related occupation).
- Solid technical writing skills to produce reports and documents; writes independently; evaluates the writing of others.
- Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with instrument automation or scientific instrumentation.
- Six Sigma certification.
- Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) experience.
- Proficiency with formal requirements management tools.
- Advanced degree (Masters / PhD) in Biology, Biochemistry, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- Experience with next generation sequencing, immuno-histochemistry, in-situ hybridization, PCR, methylation.
- Experience with system analysis, model-based system engineering, and system architecture.
Pay:
- The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 – $198,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
Now we need to produce HTML fragment with headings and appropriate content.
We should not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc.
We need to decide which sections to include:
- About the role: includes the introductory paragraph about Abbott and role description. Let's capture that: "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. The Staff Engineer, Systems Engineering is a key problem solver and technical leader to plan and lead the system integration aspects of cross-functional product development projects for In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) medical devices from concept to manufacturing. This position will use expert technical skills to contribute to multiple technologies and product lines across the company. This position will leverage understanding of advanced engineering principles, advanced engineering methods, data, and judgment to influence product concept generation, design reviews, test method development, performance testing, and assessment of system interactions."
We can put that in
under
About the role
. - Responsibilities: list of essential duties (the big list). Use- .
- Requirements: Minimum Qualifications plus maybe the ability statements? But ability statements are more like job requirements; could be included under Requirements as well. However we already have a Responsibilities section for duties. The ability statements are not duties but working conditions. Could be under Requirements as "Job Requirements". But we have a separate heading "Requirements". We'll put Minimum Qualifications there, plus the ability statements (regular attendance, ability to work nights/weekends, lift, etc.) as bullet list.
- Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications list.
- Pay: Pay range.
We should not create Benefits or Schedule sections.
Now ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now produce HTML.
We need to be careful to escape any HTML special characters? Not needed.
We'll output:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Biochemistry, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including previous hands-on involvement as an engineer, scientist, or product developer working through a formal phase gate or new product development process in the IVD medical device industry (e.g., System Integration Engineer, System Development Engineer, or related occupation).
- Solid technical writing skills to produce reports and documents; writes independently; evaluates the writing of others.
- Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
- Regular and reliable attendance.
- Ability to work nights and/or weekends.
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds for approximately 5% of a typical working day.
- Ability to work seated for approximately 75% of a typical working day.
- Ability to work standing for approximately 25% of a typical working day.
- Ability to comply with any applicable personal protective equipment requirements.
- Ability to perform repetitious actions using lab tools and equipment.
- Ability and means to travel between Redwood City locations.
- Ability to travel 15% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.
Qualifications
- Experience with instrument automation or scientific instrumentation.
- Six Sigma certification.
- Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) experience.
- Proficiency with formal requirements management tools.
- Advanced degree (Masters / PhD) in Biology, Biochemistry, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- Experience with next generation sequencing, immuno-histochemistry, in-situ hybridization, PCR, methylation.
- Experience with system analysis, model-based system engineering, and system architecture.