Senior Compliance Engineer
Abbott Laboratories
- Location
- United States - Texas - Plano
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- H-1B history
- 28 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- Sep 11, 2026
About this role
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.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title Senior Compliance Engineer Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. What You’ll Work On This position works out of our Plano, TX location in the Neuromodulation Division. Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum. The Senior Compliance Engineer is responsible for ensuring Abbott Neuromodulation products comply with applicable medical device safety, EMC, wireless, environmental, and other regulatory standards throughout the product lifecycle. This role provides technical leadership in product compliance strategy, standards interpretation, testing, and impact assessments while collaborating closely with product development teams, external test laboratories, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing organizations to deliver safe and compliant medical device solutions. Serves as a technical lead and subject matter expert for product compliance activities across new product development and sustaining engineering projects Evaluates product designs against applicable national and international standards, including electrical safety, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), wireless, environmental, and medical device-specific requirements Develops compliance strategies, test plans, protocols, and reports to support product verification, validation, regulatory submissions, and market access activities Collaborates closely with systems, electrical, firmware, mechanical, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing teams to ensure compliance requirements are incorporated throughout the design and development process Partners with external test laboratories, certification bodies, and regulatory organizations to plan, execute, and successfully complete compliance testing and product certifications Conducts impact assessments for product changes, component substitutions, manufacturing changes, and design modifications to determine compliance implications and required testing Monitors revisions to applicable standards and regulations, evaluates their impact on existing and future products, and develops implementation plans to maintain compliance Investigates compliance-related issues, supports root cause analysis activities, and develops corrective actions to address identified gaps or nonconformances Effectively communicates compliance requirements, risks, testing results, and recommendations across all levels of the organization to support informed decision-making and successful product development Minium Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in