Senior Compliance Engineer

Abbott

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Work type
On-site
Location
Plano, TX
Salary
$78,000–$156,000 / yr
Posted
5 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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This role $117k
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About Abbott

Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare company that manufactures and markets a broad and diversified line of health care products including diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic pharmaceuticals. Industry: Healthcare & Medical Devices

Abbott currently has 78 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Compliance Engineer

The Senior Compliance Engineer joins the Neuromodulation Division to ensure medical device products comply with safety, EMC, wireless, and environmental regulatory standards throughout their lifecycle. This role provides technical leadership by evaluating designs against international standards, developing test plans and protocols, and conducting impact assessments for product changes or component substitutions. The engineer collaborates with cross-functional teams including systems, electrical, firmware, mechanical, quality, and manufacturing to integrate compliance into the development process. They also manage relationships with external laboratories and certification bodies to secure necessary certifications. Key technical competencies include interpreting IEC 60601, ISO 14708, IEC 62304, and ISO 10993 standards, as well as FCC and RED requirements. The role addresses the critical challenge of ensuring that implantable, externally worn, or wireless medical devices for chronic pain and movement disorders meet all legal safety mandates.

What you'll do

  • Ensure medical device products comply with safety, EMC, wireless, and environmental regulatory standards throughout their lifecycle.
  • Serve as a technical lead and subject matter expert for product compliance across new development and sustaining projects.
  • Evaluate product designs against national and international standards to ensure regulatory alignment.
  • Develop compliance strategies, test plans, protocols, and reports to support verification and market access.
  • Manage relationships with external test laboratories and certification bodies to execute testing and obtain certifications.
  • Conduct impact assessments for product changes, component substitutions, and manufacturing modifications.
  • Monitor revisions to applicable standards and develop implementation plans to maintain ongoing compliance.
  • Investigate compliance issues and perform root cause analysis to develop corrective actions for nonconformances.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in product compliance, electrical engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience interpreting and applying technical standards and regulatory requirements to electronic products.
  • Experience developing and executing compliance testing programs, including test plans, protocols, and reports.
  • Experience working with external test laboratories and certification organizations.
  • Experience performing engineering assessments, risk evaluations, and impact analyses for product or process changes.
  • Experience working in a regulated product development environment.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, technical writing, and communication skills.
  • 7+ years of experience supporting compliance activities for complex electronic or medical device products (preferred).
  • Experience with Class II or Class III medical devices (preferred).
  • Strong knowledge of medical device standards including IEC 60601, ISO 14708, IEC 62304, and others (preferred).
  • Experience supporting implantable, externally worn, or wireless medical device systems (preferred).
  • Experience conducting EMC, electrical safety, environmental, reliability, and wireless compliance evaluations (preferred).

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