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Associate I Clinical Research

Abbott

Alameda, CAJob$74–116K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago

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Compensation
$74–116K/yr
Location
Alameda, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

Abbott seeks an Associate I Clinical Research to ensure quality and integrity of clinical trial data across multiple studies, performing site visits, monitoring, device accountability, and regulatory documentation while communicating status to management and traveling up to 50% of the time.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Medical Device Study ExperienceIn‑Vitro Diagnostics Study ExperienceTeamworkInterpersonal CommunicationWorking Knowledge of CFR ICH‑GCP Clinical and Regulatory AffairsMicrosoft SuiteFlexibility

Qualifications

BS Degree in Life Sciences or EquivalentOne Year Clinical Research ExperienceMedical Device Study ExperienceIn-Vitro Diagnostics Study ExperienceTeamworkInterpersonal CommunicationWorking Knowledge of CFR ICH-GCP Clinical and Regulatory AffairsMicrosoft Suite ProficiencyFlexibility in Daily Activities

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

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, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

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

The Opportunity

The CRA will ensure quality, accuracy, and integrity of clinical trial data throughout the full lifecycle of multiple clinical trials according to the Code of Federal Regulations, ICH GCP, and ISO14155.

This is an on-site position in Alameda, California. This is not a remote position.

What You’ll Work On

  • The incumbent may be asked to perform other function-related activities in addition to the below mentioned responsibilities as assigned by management.

  • Perform study site visits (SQV, SIV, IMV, COV), generate monitoring reports, and track resolution of action items.

  • Assist and conduct clinical monitoring and site management activities, ensuring compliance to the Study Protocol, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH guidelines, Federal Regulations, department procedures, and other applicable regulatory requirements.

  • Participate in study start up activities.

  • Assist with shipping study devices and supplies to clinical sites.

  • Perform study device accountability and reconciliation.

  • Assist senior staff in development of study-specific forms and trial-specific monitoring plans.

  • Assist senior staff in study planning, designing case report forms (CRFs), and training of study sites.

  • Maintain and audit Trial Master File (TMF) and upload to eTMF to ensure inspection readiness.

  • Perform review of clinical data listings for completeness and accuracy; and escalate issues to the Clinical Operations Manager/Study Lead as needed.

  • Proactively and effectively communicate the status of clinical studies to management.

  • Participate in the interim and final reviews of study data in preparation of regulatory submissions.

  • May interact with RA/QA in responding to audits and FDA inquiries.

  • Perform any other duties as assigned by management.

  • Must be able to travel 30-50%-, with additional travel as required.

Required Qualifications

  • BS degree in life sciences preferred or equivalent with minimum one (1) year of clinical research experience, or combination of appropriate education and experience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working on medical device studies and/or in-vitro diagnostics studies preferred. Pharmaceutical background may also be considered.

  • Demonstrate excellence in teamwork, solid interpersonal and communication skills including building rapport with team members/peers, study site staff, and clinical management.

  • Working knowledge of CFR, ICH-GCP, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs

  • Proficient with Microsoft Suite

  • Perform any other duties as assigned by management.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Demonstrated excellence in teamwork, stellar interpersonal and communication skills including building rapport with team members, peers, and management.

  • Working knowledge of GCP, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs.

  • Flexibility in daily activities.

  • Proficient with Microsoft Suite

Apply Now (https://www.jobs.abbott/us/en)

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

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.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott , and on Twitter @AbbottNews.

Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

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.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics, and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions. We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives

The base pay for this position is $73,900.00 – $116,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email [email protected]

How this job compares

Set against the 569 open Clinical Research Associate jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$74–116K/yr
  • California median$75–186K/yr46 salary ranges
  • US median$75–175K/yr213 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $95K, is 28% below the California median midpoint ($133K) — in the lowest quarter of Clinical Research Associate salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 72 open Clinical Research Associate jobs in California and 569 across the US. 20% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Clinical Research Associate postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (515 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 149 of the 569 open Clinical Research Associate jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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