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, nutritional’s, and branded generic medicines. Our 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
This position works out of our Temecula, CA location in the Abbott Vascular Division. 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. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.
Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents.
Job Summary An ideal candidate is well grounded in a scientific discipline and has experience performing routine and complex bench and/or instrumental analysis, has developed methods and procedures, and is well versed in polymer chemistry and has an understanding of free radicals (materials).
Responsibilities
- Supports R&D team
- Testing of materials used for medical application
- Material aging and shelf-life validation
- Provides technical expertise on polymers
- Utilizes research papers to support lab work
- Develops methods & procedures
- Troubleshooting
- 2-5+ years of related experience professionally or academically
- Minimum of a B.S. degree in a related field
- Experience with lab tech
- Strong understanding of polymer chemistry
- Experience using spectroscopies such as: FTIR, RAMAN, ESR
- Experience with Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
- Experience with gas chromatography (GC)
- Instrumental analysis or complex bench experience
- Understanding of free radicals (materials)