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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Medical Device Quality Intern Overview

Envision spending your summer working with energetic colleagues and inspirational leaders, all while gaining world-class experience in one of the most dynamic organizations in the pharmaceutical / medical device industry. This is a reality for AbbVie’s Interns.

The Pharmacovigilance, Patient Safety, Epidemiology, and Quality (PSEQ) organization works collaboratively and strategically with colleagues across the product lifecycle to identify, evaluate, understand, and communicate the safety profile and ensure quality standards of AbbVie products to protect patients worldwide.

The Medical Device Combo Product Research and Development Quality Assurance (MDCP RDQA) organization works collaboratively and strategically with colleagues in R&D, Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Safety and more to develop and launch new AbbVie medical device products to patients worldwide.

The role of MDCP R&D Quality is to ensure products are designed to be safe and effective, while also ensuring development efforts comply with applicable standards and regulations. The group is also focused on harmonizing quality processes across many diverse sites to ensure the needs of each site are represented in global procedures. We support the development of a variety of medical devices in the Aesthetics space, including fillers, plastics (implants / tissue expanders), regenerative medicine (tissue products), and electromechanical equipment (cryolipolysis and rapid acoustic pulse wave technology for body contouring).

Key Responsibilities:

The intern will support a team of R&D QA development partners around the globe.

The intern will partner with Quality Engineers and Managers at the site to:

• Collaborate with Design teams, provide technical support, and facilitate the successful execution of the Design Control Process for complex electromechanical medical devices containing hardware, software, electrical and mechanical components.

• Create Quality Engineering deliverables required within the product development process.

• Support Design Verification and Validation activities, including review of verification & validation protocols and reports

• Assist in the analysis of product requirements and specifications. Participate in product design reviews and team meetings.

• Provide subject expertise and input in the following areas: Biocompatibility strategy, including requirements, protocol, and report; Shelf-Life Studies strategy, including accelerated and real-time; Cleaning Validation.

• Ensure that technical information is accurate and in compliance with quality and regulatory requirements.

• Review Design Changes post design transfer.

• Work on process improvements globally or at the site level.

• Prepare information for communication and knowledge sharing using various methods (e.g., presentations, written messages, training, etc.)

• Learn about R&D QA quality systems in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in university, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering , Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or other related scientific/engineering degree

• Must be enrolled in university for at least one semester following the internship

• Expected graduation date between December 2025 – June 2026

Preferred Qualifications

• Medical device or project management experience

• Interest in compliance

Additional Information

Benefits and Amenities

• Competitive pay

• Relocation support for eligible students

• Select wellness benefits and paid holiday / sick time

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.​

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.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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Salary: $19.5 - $35.1