Senior Systems Engineer
Posted Aug 11, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 22, 2026
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About your past
The posting expects you to broaden the understanding of systems engineering principles within AbbVie. How do you convince a discipline engineer that a systems approach is worth their time?
What they are checking: Evangelizing a method to people who already have a way of working.
Tell me about a design decision where the patient-centered requirement and the manufacturability requirement pulled apart.
What they are checking: Real tradeoff experience in combination products.
You would provide technical leadership and guidance to less experienced engineers without necessarily managing them. How do you do that?
What they are checking: Influence-based technical leadership, stated as a requirement.
This asks for roughly twelve years with a bachelor's, ten with a master's, and requires full product development experience from concept to market. What part of that journey do you know best?
What they are checking: Honest self-placement against a demanding experience requirement.
What would you do
You would work with external engineering services firms and third-party development partners. How do you get a vendor's deliverable to a standard you can accept?
What they are checking: Vendor deliverable acceptance, named explicitly.
How do you decide a design is verified well enough to release?
What they are checking: Where they draw the line, which in a device carries patient consequences.
About the work
This sits on the combination product development team. Walk me through how you would define user and stakeholder needs for a drug delivery device.
What they are checking: The first and most consequential step of the systems engineering process here.
The posting names ISO 14971 for risk management alongside IEC 60601, 62304 and 11608. How does risk management under that standard shape the architecture you end up with?
What they are checking: Whether they connect the standard to design decisions rather than to documentation.
The role names error budgeting and sensitivity analysis. Walk me through allocating a system-level requirement down to components.
What they are checking: System decomposition in practice, which is the heart of this job.
How do you keep traceability from user needs through requirements to verification when the design keeps changing?
What they are checking: Requirements management discipline in a moving project.
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