New · posted Oct 23
Abbott · Medical Devices
Manager, Product Quality Engineering
- Alameda, CA
- On-site
- Full-time
- Manager
The role
This position will be based out of our Alameda, CA location in the Diabetes Care division where we are focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
As the Manager, Product Quality Engineering, you will be responsible for the group initiating and owning investigations associated with trends and emerging issues associated with product complaints, captured in the CAPA system. The group also establishes processes and programs to ensure new products are capable for post-market surveillance as defined in the ADC Quality System at the time of launch. This role requires a strong technical understanding of the product, investigation methods, and the post market surveillance space to ensure timely and effective investigations and corresponding corrective actions where applicable. This role will be expected to oversee and develop a team of individuals with those same skillsets.
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.
What you need
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree
- 6 years of experience both overall and any industry-specific experience needed
Preferred Qualificationsnice to have
- Quality Assurance and healthcare industry disciplines preferred or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Minimum 4 years Overall quality experience in a FDA/ISO regulated environment.
- Substantial demonstrated initiative and problem-solving skills; critical-thinking skills, preferably in a CAPA environment.
- Experience in leading & managing people.
- Experience working in an investigative role in a Quality management system, in collaborations with Quality Assurance/ with Operations and R&D.
What you'll do
What You’ll Work On
• Develop Product Quality Engineering teams to isolate root causes and recommend or implement effective solutions by means of sophisticated analysis, investigative techniques and troubleshooting methods.
• Establish effective team oversight of new product development to ensure post-market surveillance capabilities at time of launch.
• Responsible for establishing ADC investigation and reporting methodology as pertaining to elevated complaints and field issues identified.
• Work with the complaints group and CAPA team to analyze product issues and then conduct investigations to root cause and identify CAs to resolve.
• Collaborate with Operations, R&D, Quality Assurance, and Customer Service to determine cross-functional evaluation, investigation, and solutions.
• Represent Complaint Handling and Product Quality Engineering in escalations and urgent issues being addressed at a cross-functional or divisional level.
• Reviews and provides functional approval for project and quality system documentation.
• Develops and implements
Pay and benefits
$114,000 – $228,000 a year
Employer providedThe base pay for this position is
$114,000.00 – $228,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
Free medical coverage in Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
Retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement
Freedom 2 Save student debt program
FreeU education benefit
Career development
Where you'll work
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Divisional Information
Medical Devices
General Medical Devices:
Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.
CRM
As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.
Diabetes
We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
Vascular
Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.
Neuromodulation
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.
Structural Heart
Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist
Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.
EP
In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.
HF
In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.
Diagnostics
We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.
Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics, and toxicology.
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.
Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.
Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions. We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.
Nutrition
Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.
JOB FAMILY
Operations Quality
DIVISION
ADC Diabetes Care
LOCATION
United States > Alameda : 1360-1380 South Loop Road
From the posting
About Abbott
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 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 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.
Equal opportunity, accessibility and legal noticesAbbott's statements, word for word
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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Job intelligence
The context around this role
Live data · October 24, 2026
Salary intelligence
How the pay compares
This role's midpoint is 11% above the US median for Quality Assurance roles at this level.
This roleEmployer provided
Manager roles in California26 roles publishing pay
Manager roles in the US112 roles publishing pay
| Annual base pay | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| This role | $114,000 | — | $228,000 |
| California (middle half) | $158,125 | $168,000 | $181,000 |
| All US (middle half) | $130,875 | $154,000 | $167,625 |
This role: Abbott's own published range. Comparisons: the base pay employers published on open Quality Assurance roles at the same level on Regulatory Jobs, October 24, 2026. Nothing is estimated.
Career trajectory
Where this role sits in Quality Assurance
The general path across 911 open Quality Assurance roles on Regulatory Jobs, with the titles they carry most. Not Abbott's own promotion track.
Career resources on Quality Assurance
Skills DNA
What this role leans on
How many of the posting's 18 duty, requirement and summary lines touch each area. The posting's emphasis, not a proficiency score.
- Investigations and CAPA8
- Collaboration and leadership8
- Lab testing and methods3
- Quality systems and risk3
- Documentation and SOPs1
Company hiring pulse
Abbott on Regulatory Jobs
- 87
- Open roles
- 81
- Distinct roles
- 30
- Locations
By discipline
- Quality58 67%
- Regulatory26 30%
- Compliance & Safety2 2%
By level
- Senior & Principal43 49%
- Associate & Specialist25 29%
- Manager16 18%
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Manager, Product Quality Engineering at Abbott
Open until filled. $114K–$228K a year, employer provided.