Careers

Abaxis®, a manufacturer of point-of-care diagnostic systems, is seeking applicants for the following positions. Abaxis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Abaxis is a federal government contractor and as such, it has certain obligations with respect to various federal laws, regulations, and executive orders and must take affirmative action to ensure equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. Abaxis will recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job titles without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, marital status, or status as a disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other protected veteran.

Interested applicants may e-mail their resume to: careers@abaxis.com. Resumes that are mailed or faxed will not be considered.

ABAXIS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Current Open Positions

Updated 06/27/2008

Senior Scientist

Description:

  • Lead all efforts in developing enzymatic and/or immunoassays for use on Abaxis rotor platform. Lead wet chemistry feasibility experimentation followed by development of lyophilized format. Develop assay and test for, optimize, and analyze iterative experiments to obtain requisite precision, accuracy, clinical robustness, stability, etc. Develop clinical trial protocol and monitor clinical trials. Continue as assay expert for TS following release of assay.

Requirements:

  • Advanced degree or BS (Chemistry/Biology or Physics) plus more than 10 years experience in assay development.
  • Outstanding wet chemistry laboratory skills.
  • Outstanding data manipulation skills, Excel or MathCad.
  • Eager and motivated.
  • Experience in developing assays and with clinical applications for specific IVD tests.

Manufacturing Engineering Technician (3)

Description:

  • Support the lines with the ultrasonic welding process.
  • Identify production issues or defects that contribute to failures.

Requirements:

  • Analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Mechanical Aptitude
  • Attention to Details
  • Troubleshooting Skills

Manufacturing Technician

Description:

  • Assemble and repair electro-mechanical devices.
  • Perform test operations on assemblies and/or sub-assemblies using a number of different test fixtures.
  • Read schematics and perform basic computer functions

Requirements:

  • High School Diploma

Rotor QC Technician

Description:

  • Perform Quality Control inspection and testing on the rotor production line.

Requirements:

  • Detail-oriented.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Microsoft Windows and Excel.

Medical Regional Sales Manager

Positions open in South Texas and the Mid-Atlantic Region (MD/DC/VA).

Primary Duty:

Increase sales by selling capital equipment to physician offices, specialty offices and clinics, and all potential opportunities in assigned region.

Description:

  • Working with current distribution partners to further qualify leads, perform product demonstrations and drive equipment sales.
  • Willing to travel and do overnights weekly.
  • Perform instrument installation post the sale.
  • Follow up to qualify direct sales leads.
  • Establish regional reference list relationships with the medical community.
  • Place general and follow up customer courtesy calls.
  • Prospecting new business at all times.
  • Achieving 8 to 10 sales calls per day on prospects and qualified leads.

Requirements:

  • BS/BA
  • Capital equipment sales background.
  • Chemistry, reimbursement and CLIA knowledge a plus.

Director of Engineering

Description:

  • Staff, train and provide leadership to all Engineering departments (Instrument, Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Product Transfer Engineering)
  • Key focus is product quality and customer service
  • Leads instrument technology assessments for new product improvements in quality and cost
  • Responsible for device cost, cost reduction and improvement (cost, features, mfg. methods, outsourcing)
  • Key focus will be rotor test reduction and quality and cost improvement
  • Ensures fixed assets are preserved. Initiates recommendations on purchases of new equipment and improvements. Recommends methods, material and layouts for improvement based on manufacturing capacity needs and capabilities
  • Develop annual operating budgets to meet company objectives. Achieve quarterly operating budgets to support corporate profit goals. Achieve budgeted unit cost to support corporate plan assuring operating leverage.
  • Interface closely with R&D to assure new products are designed for manufacturability and manufacturing capabilities are ready per project launch schedules. Responsible for efficient new product transfer to Mfg.
  • Improve Devise Process and Performance. Participates in new product design.
  • Responsible for making day-today engineering decisions regarding non-conforming materials and manufacturing variances.
  • Strategically plan for and implement new manufacturing processes required to support the company sales plan including new products. Responsible for Capacity Plan including implementation.
  • Provides engineering expertise in the areas of sourcing, packaging, tooling, specifications, and product maintenance
  • Participate in the planning and implementation of strategic initiatives and policies

Requirements:

  • Extensive Engineering experience ion Medical Devise/Diagnostic field
  • Technical skills in manufacturing techniques, FDA compliance, process improvement and process development engineering
  • Problem analysis at both a strategic and functional level
  • Skilled at experimental design, statistical analysis of data and interpretation of results. Thorough understanding of failure analysis
  • Advanced organization skills with ability to multi-task and balance complex and routine work activities
  • Strong background in statistics and SPC
  • Experience in Device Manufacturing, Design and Sourcing
  • Experience and expertise in high volume Plastic manufacturing
  • Strong laboratory skills including knowledge of GLP and lab safety
  • Proven track record of achieving world class manufacturing
  • Must be able to read, write and speak in English
  • Strong team player and team builder
  • Superior interpersonal and communication skills

Staff Vision Engineer

Description:

  • Improve Production Yield
  • Reduce Labor
  • Increase product quality through automated vision solutions

Requirements:

  • Professional Engineering License or Masters degree in a technical discipline.
  • 20 years experience in vision and automation engineering including significant work in a Good Manufacturing Practices regulated environment.

Senior Buyer

Description:

  • Purchasing and planning responsibilities for major sub-assemblies, including sub-contracted (outside service) job orders.
  • Maintain strong relations with suppliers to ensure quality, cost efficiency, and on-time delivery with domestic and international suppliers.
  • Manage and maintain inventory levels through MRP, kanban and master reports.
  • Change notice responsibility for assigned commodities—process all necessary changes to ensure no errors or lost production time occurred.

Requirements:

  • Extensive background in cost savings through negotiation, better sourcing, and assisting in engineering design changes.
  • MRB committee experience for resolving manufacturing and quality issues.
  • Successful experience with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and ISO requirements, as well as Demand Flow Technology.
  • Well organized with excellent oral and written communication skills, oriented towards business profitability and customer satisfaction.
  • Problem solving, self-motivated and independent, needing little supervision and able to exemplify professional purchasing ability to others.
  • BS or equivalent; APP and/or CPM accreditation a plus.

Veterinary Regional Account Manager

Positions open in North/South Dakota, Mississippi/Louisiana, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Miami.

Primary Duty:

Increase sales by calling on existing customers, sales leads and all potential animal health or research opportunities in assigned region.

Description:

  • For current customers, responsible for customer retention and assuring overall satisfaction.
  • Assist customers with questions regarding a product or technical issue, increase reagent pack and rotor utilization through education, update existing instruments or provide for additional instrumentation for the practice.
  • Call on all potential sites in the region seeking new business opportunities.
  • Visit with current customers to discuss needs, provide technical resources, promote new products, and gather referrals.
  • Place general customer courtesy calls.
  • Generate new businesses, instrument placements in competitor's accounts, academia and research.
  • Call on 3-4 existing customers and 3-4 new business opportunities per day.

Requirements:

  • Minimum of an Associates Degree. Science emphasis and Bachelors Degree preferred.
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience in sales in medical, scientific, or in healthcare.

Customer Service/Inside Sales Representative

The Customer Service/Inside Sales Representative plays a vital role in the overall welfare of the company. Abaxis relies on the customer service team coupled with our distribution partners and the field sales team to contact customers on a regular basis. This goal is achieved through periodic and scheduled outbound calls from Abaxis to current customers to discuss their needs, providing technical resources, promoting new products, gathering referrals, and general customer courtesy calls. They are the customer advocate and will garner all and any resources internally or externally to assure satisfaction and retention. Customers in assigned area will be contacted on a rotating basis to discuss current promotions and new products. Order entry and contact / database management are essential responsibilities.

Description:

  • Responsible for assisting customers, and strategic marketing partners by providing information in the areas of product performance, technical applications, and product availability
  • Must satisfactorily address product inquiries
  • Resolve customer issues in a timely manner
  • Up sell Abaxis products including instruments, warranty agreements, new products and existing test profiles
  • Establish relationships with end user accounts to assess satisfaction with current Abaxis products and define future needs
  • Contact existing customers on a quarterly basis to identify inactive accounts, assess requirements to reactivate these accounts
  • Document all contact information in the current customer management system
  • Data entry required in documenting orders, inbound & outbound calls
  • No supervisory responsibilities required

Requirements:

  • Legally eligible to work in the US
  • Possess reliable transportation
  • Minimum of Associates Degree, preference given to science emphasis (ie. veterinary technician, medical assistant, LPN)
  • BS Degree in Business or Scientific Field preferred
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in sales, telesales, customer service or experience in a clinical setting is required
  • Excellent telephone manner
  • Basic computer skills (ie. Microsoft Office, Data Entry)
  • Team player
  • Occasional overnight travel is required for training, seminars, tradeshows and customer visits, generally two to four nights per trip, two to three times per year
  • French or Spanish language skills a plus

Technical Support Representative

Description:

  • Handle high volume of incoming technical support calls from Abaxis veterinary business customers and field sales reps while accurately documenting the details of each call in a contact database.
  • Contribute positively to a team environment and provide backup coverage when necessary, including occasional 24/7 on-call support.
  • Prepare and review product support information.
  • Participate on product development or marketing teams to provide the voice of the customer.
  • Occasionally travel to customer sites to provide support, installation, and training.
  • Occasionally attend tradeshows and conventions.

Requirements:

  • B.S/B.A in bio-science or clinical lab science.
  • Technical/Customer support experience required.
  • Bilingual (French/Spanish) a plus.

Embedded Systems Engineer

Major Job Responsibilities:

The embedded systems engineer will be on the development team that maintains and upgrades medical diagnostic products and will participate in the development of new products. The position requires a person capable of understanding how the customer uses the system, and able to understand how the different system components affect the total system performance. The successful candidate will need to be able to understand the details of the hardware, software and spectrophotometer interaction and apply these skills in a team setting with chemists and manufacturing engineers. This position requires the acquisition and analysis of large amounts of data. The primary format of the data is Microsoft Excel workbooks.

Specifically:

Hardware Related Items:

  • Design and troubleshooting of upgrades for the current Abaxis blood analyzer line;
  • Design of digital and digital/analog interface circuitry in any new Abaxis products;
  • Schematic capture and board layout using Protel;
  • Logic synthesis into CPLDs or FPGAs;
  • Design and troubleshooting of Abaxis analyzer in-house testing and calibration equipment.

Software Related Items:

  • Coding and Debugging of software for the current Abaxis blood analyzer line;
  • Coding and Debugging of software in any new Abaxis products;
  • Coding and Debugging of software in Abaxis analyzer in-house testing and calibration equipment.

Validation and Documentation Items:

  • Design and implementation testing and validation procedures involving the Abaxis analyzer or any related production, testing or validation equipment;
  • Documentation of all activities in accordance with established policies.

Requirements:

  • Experience with microprocessors, digital circuit design and analog circuit design;
  • Experience with programming in C or C++;
  • Experience with Microsoft Excel including VBA programming;
  • Experience working on embedded systems from the total system point of view;
  • Excellent English verbal and written communication skills required. Must be able to generate organized, clean, useful documentation according to FDA, company and industry standards.

Education:

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a combination education and equivalent experience. (Degree in Electrical Engineering preferred)

Entry-Level Software Engineer

In this position, you will be part of the IT team and work as a member of the software group. You will interface with various departments to understand their needs and requirements and provide supported functions in Clientele, Abaxis' Customer Relationship and Marketing Management software. In addition, your team will be responsible for taking requirements into design, implement and test various software components that are used in Abaxis Manufacturing System (AMS) and Abaxis Repair System (ARS).

Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

  • Working closely with Marketing, Customer Service, Technical Support, R&D, Instrument Manufacturing's Engineers and Technicians to understand functional requirements for various software subsystems
  • Designing and implementing software modules
  • Assisting team leader in developing task schedules system requirements
  • Documenting own work
  • Responsible for timely delivery of debugged working code
  • Additional duties will be assigned by your supervisor as they arise

Qualifications & Experience:

You should possess a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with hands-on software development experience in Visual Basic, C/C++.

Additional qualifications include:

  • Hands-on software development experience, either in either the academic or professional arenas
  • Hands-on experience in operating tasks and applications within the Microsoft operation system / platform.
  • Knowledge of software engineering principles
  • Ability to work and collaborate as a productive member of a team
  • Comfortable with programming paradigms, including Visual Basic for Applications, C and C++
  • Good written and verbal communication skills including comfort communicating with peers, managers and members of other organizations
  • GMP/Medical experience a plus
  • Software validation experience a plus

Assemblers

$11/hr temporary assembler positions converting to $12 direct positions in a growing medical device manufacturing company. Work schedule is during the daytime, usually 40 hrs/week, Monday thru Friday. Proficient temporary employees who meet all requirements may be converted to direct employment, generally in 8 months or less. Direct hire benefits include competitive medical and dental plans, 401K, and quarterly profit sharing. Strong company growth offers many potential opportunities for advancement. Training will be provided.

Responsibilities:

  • Assembly, inspection, and packaging of plastic chemistry analysis discs in a clean room environment
  • Material handling, machine loading and unloading
  • Reliable inspection of small attributes using magnification ring lamp at a fast pace
  • Ability to maintain a record of the assembly process, progress and problems
  • Provide a feedback to leads or supervisor when a deviation from accepted practice or safety issues are recognized

Requirements:

  • Pass basic inspection skills during the interview process and maintain inspection reliability throughout the duration of employment
  • Ability to work at a fast pace and perform a variety of functions
  • Ability to frequently lift 10 lbs, occasionally 50 lbs with reasonable accommodation
  • Availability to work between 6am & 9pm M-F, occasional Saturday work, flexibility to periodically shift scheduled start time
  • High School diploma or equivalent; read, write and communicate clearly in English to carefully and consistently follow procedures
  • Dependable attendance
  • Team-work, cooperation with leadership, and a positive attitude
  • Drug-free (Drug screen is performed during interview process)

Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities include designing and building pick and place automated equipment along with required tooling; program automated equipment and support construction of existing automated equipment; work with technicians to build new equipment.

The ideal candidate will have applicable engineering degree, BSME or technical training plus 3 years experience designing and building mechanical devices; one year experience working with pneumatics. Skilled with 3D cad, Solidworks preferred. Programming experience in PLC's, motion control, and "C". Knowledge of machine shop practices, ability to operate lathe and mill and fabrication experience a plus. This is a hands-on position; good written and verbal communication skills required.

Automation Mechanic

Description:

  • Install, troubleshoot, and repair automated production equipment

Requirements:

  • 5 years of experience with automated systems or applicable engineering degree or technical training
  • Other helpful qualifications include experience with fabrication, machining, wiring, electrical troubleshooting, PLC programming, mechanical, HVAC systems, and refrigeration