Senior Scientist, Instrument II

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

We are seeking a talented and curious engineer to join our SPecialized Research in Chaotic Systems (SPaRCS) team within our Small Molecule Therapeutics and Platform Technologies (SMTPT) organization. This individual will work with scientists and engineers across R&D to design custom instruments that deliver significant productivity improvements to AbbVie laboratories. The successful candidate will utilize their thirst for knowledge and their experience to design fluidic, robotic, and optical systems for a wide variety of life science laboratories.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain complex, custom, robotic, fluid handling, and electromechanical automated instruments and systems.
• Blend information from client scientific laboratories with engineering team needs to determine functional specifications.
• Leverage multiple fabrication processes including CNC machining, 3D printing, and microfabrication to produce novel designs.
• Negotiate and collaborate with instrument vendors to secure access to solid models to facilitate integration of commercial instruments with customized components.
• Contribute to general instrument electrical, software, and mechanical engineering design decisions and problem solving.

Qualifications

Level and compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Required:

• MS or PhD in mechanical engineering 7+(MS) or 3+(PhD) years of experience.
• Hands-on research experience in designing complex electromechanical and/or robotic fluid-handling systems.
• Multidisciplinary understanding of how to solve engineering problems.

Desirable:

• Experience working in diverse fields of science including: biology, chemistry, and physics.
• Familiarity or capacity to learn multiple solids modeling software and multiphysics modeling platforms.
• Experience with pneumatic, microfluidic, and microfabrication design.

Key Leadership Competencies:

• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functionally, with partners outside of team to enable higher performance.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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