Associate Systems Integration Specialist

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. ## **JOB DESCRIPTION:** **Working at Abbott** 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](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program, and [FreeU](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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. **The Opportunity** The **Associate Systems Integration Specialist** will work out of our **Abbott Park IL** location in the **Transfusion Medicine Unit** in Core Diagnostics. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers. - The Associate Systems Integration Specialist is responsible for bringing together the component subsystems into one system and ensuring that the subsystems (including hardware, software, and assay) function together as a system. Ensures end-to-end traceability of functionality and product performance requirements. - Works closely with Systems Engineers to evaluate system performance (requirements), identify potential impact, and plan appropriate integration testing. - Contributes to multiple projects and design changes in support of investigations. - Resolves product problems and technical issues - Ensures systems design and documentation meet all safety and regulatory compliance. **What you will do** - Participates in system, software, hardware design reviews and test planning reviews to support assessment of performance against design specification; reliability testing, and assessment of system interactions. - Define appropriate test plans and test methods considering potential impact to user needs and system requirements. - Writes and executes moderately complex system related verification and/or characterization protocols and data packages. - Applies moderately complex quantitative methods, analyzes data, evaluates results, forms conclusions and provides improvements. - Implement improvements; provide input into project deliverables and timelines. - Troubleshoots issues to determine root cause and proposing possible solutions. Investigate moderately complex issues at system level (hardware, assay, software interaction). - Apply process and work methodologies by interfacing and communicating system level issues with peers/cross-functional groups. - Collaborate with various organizations/disciplines (e.g., software, hardware, test, operations, manufacturing) to ensure system performance and customer expectations are met. **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in engineer…