Abbott Posted October 15, 2026

Quality Engineer III

Alajuela, Alajuela, Costa Rica FULL_TIME
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About this opportunity

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Coyol Free Zone location in the Vascular Division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

As the Quality Engineer III, you’ll have the chance apply scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to complete assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline.

This role will provide Quality support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of the highest quality product to the customer.

Shift: B (Monday - Friday from 3:00 - 10:00 pm and Saturdays from 7:00 am to 2:30 pm)

On-Site position

What You’ll Do

Apply quality principles, analyzes quality records, prepares reports and recommends improvements.

Conduct inspection, verification and validation of components or materials used in development processes.

Identify and address recurring problems either with the quality of the product or the reliability of testing procedures.

Interfaces primarily with internal company contacts.

Plans and conducts small size assigned projects within engineering specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment.

Investigates, conducts tests or experiments, gathers data, and performs preliminary analysis. Reports findings. Prepares and communicates recommendations.

Builds relationships. Initiates and cultivates open, honest relationships with colleagues, developing an understanding of others’ needs.

Identifies and Evaluates areas of risk with respect to compliance, Product/Mfg performance, Develops procedures, maintain FMEAs.

Resolves problems, such as production process deviations, non-conformances (CAPA).

Required Qualifications

Bachelor Degree, engineering, science or closely related discipline is desired, or equivalent technical.

4 years of experience in medical device or related industries.

English​ level (B2)

Preferred Qualifications

Quality Background desired.

FDA/ISO regulation knowledge desired.

Statistic’s knowledge desired.

Personal skills needed include Accountability, Diligency, Resourcefulness, customer focus. Effective communication skills.

Apply Now

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 details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Quality
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Alajuela, Alajuela, Costa Rica
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Quality role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 1369 comparable Quality roles across 143 biopharma companies.

1369Comparable roles tracked
1241Currently active
143Companies hiring similar roles
52Countries represented

Salary context

230 of 1369 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · QA - Stat Sort Specialist · Lilly $18/hr – $35/hr (≈ $37,482–$72,592/yr)
Highest disclosed · Vice President, Quality Assurance - GMP · Exelixis Inc $315,500/yr – $366,500/yr
Peer group range $55,037 – $341,000 (median $129,052)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 1369 comparable roles

United States554
Ireland82
China62
France58
Germany51
India50

+ 46 more countries

Seniority mix

625 of 1369 peers have a known seniority level

Manager183
Senior166
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc73
Associate68
Associate Director35
Director35
Principal30
Senior Director28
Executive/VP7

Therapeutic area mix

1 of 1369 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Vaccines & Infectious Disease1

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