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Principal Engineer roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in engineering or a directly related field. The E-3 has no lottery and no annual cap, making it a reliable path for Australian engineers targeting senior technical leadership positions in the United States.
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About AbbVie
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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
The Principal Quality Engineer – Automation and AI Enablement is responsible for ensuring that AbbVie's IT operations and software lifecycle processes fully comply with regulatory requirements and corporate standards. This role provides leadership in defining, implementing, and optimizing quality systems through digital enablement and AI-driven solutions, collaborating directly with cross-functional teams.
Focusing on modernizing communications, metrics management, SLC monitoring activities, and providing end-to-end audit and Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) support, the incumbent leverages automation and AI to strengthen cross-functional integration and quality oversight. They drive improvement initiatives, support audit readiness, ensure effective issue tracking and resolution, deliver actionable insights through metrics and reporting, and act as the primary point of contact between business units and quality teams to maintain mutual understanding and effective service agreements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, implement, and champion solution/change strategies to align with organizational objectives and evolving regulatory requirements, leveraging AI-powered solutions and automation to enhance compliance monitoring and operational efficiency.
- Apply DevOps toolchain expertise (as appropriate) to ensure a simplified, integrated approach to technology-process integration and support automated monitoring for audit and compliance.
- Drive modernization of communications channels, excellence in metrics management, and automation in audit support and Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) processes, leveraging AI-driven solutions for proactive quality oversight.
- Lead continuous improvement and digital enablement initiatives, promoting widespread adoption of automation, intelligent reporting, automated workflows, and advanced analytics across quality-assurance activities.
- Oversee SLC monitoring activities by establishing automated dashboards, alerts, and reporting solutions to deliver actionable insights and ensure audit readiness.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for communications on quality events, facilitating issue tracking, documentation, and resolution, with a focus on root cause analysis and timely corrective actions.
- Remain proactive to regulatory trends and best practices, updating SLC and compliance processes as needed.
- Represent SQA in quality/governance forums, communicate metric-based outcomes, audit findings, and process improvements to business partners and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Manage support for internal and external audits, overseeing audit readiness, CAPA processes, and documentation of remediation efforts.
- Provide expert mentorship on quality system automation, AI enablement, quality metrics, and cross-functional process optimization.
- Lead and deliver targeted training for internal staff and business units on digital quality enablement, compliance monitoring, metrics management, and audit support tools.
- Supervise documentation, evidence management, and reporting to sustain compliance and facilitate investigations and audit support.
- Support Center of Excellence (CoE) operations in SLC communications, newsletters, meeting coordination, and digital reporting initiatives.
- Respond to escalations and critical issues in quality monitoring, coordinating cross-functional resolution.
- Participate in infrastructure risk and change management, ensuring processes are appropriately documented and compliant.
- Develop, monitor, and report on SQA metrics using automated data analytics to drive insights, gap closure, and transparent executive reporting.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's Degree with 7 years experience; Master's Degree with 6 years experience; PhD with 2 years experience
- Overall experience to include two of the following areas: Experience in a formal software development life cycle. Experience in regulated software environment. Software Quality experience, Project Management in software experience. Auditing Experience. Quality Systems experience.
- Strong experience in automation, pipeline technologies, workflow optimization, AI/ML solutions, and integration of DevOps tools to support communications and audit-readiness functions.
- Demonstrated success in cross-functional process improvement, risk management, audit support, and CAPA execution.
- Experience supporting regulatory audits/inspections and implementing quality monitoring solutions.
- Advanced project management, analytical, and documentation skills; ability to create and teach knowledge materials for diverse audiences.
- Ability to coach teams in policy, SLC execution, and regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of Computer Software Assurance (CSA), digital transformation in quality, and contemporary validation practices.
Preferred:
- US regulations (GMP parts 11, 58, 210, 211, and 820). ASQ Certified CQA/CSQE.
- Supervisory experience.
- Professional certifications (e.g., ASQ CQA, PMP, Six Sigma).
Additional Information
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.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.
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 and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
Company Description
About AbbVie
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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
The Principal Quality Engineer – Automation and AI Enablement is responsible for ensuring that AbbVie's IT operations and software lifecycle processes fully comply with regulatory requirements and corporate standards. This role provides leadership in defining, implementing, and optimizing quality systems through digital enablement and AI-driven solutions, collaborating directly with cross-functional teams.
Focusing on modernizing communications, metrics management, SLC monitoring activities, and providing end-to-end audit and Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) support, the incumbent leverages automation and AI to strengthen cross-functional integration and quality oversight. They drive improvement initiatives, support audit readiness, ensure effective issue tracking and resolution, deliver actionable insights through metrics and reporting, and act as the primary point of contact between business units and quality teams to maintain mutual understanding and effective service agreements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, implement, and champion solution/change strategies to align with organizational objectives and evolving regulatory requirements, leveraging AI-powered solutions and automation to enhance compliance monitoring and operational efficiency.
- Apply DevOps toolchain expertise (as appropriate) to ensure a simplified, integrated approach to technology-process integration and support automated monitoring for audit and compliance.
- Drive modernization of communications channels, excellence in metrics management, and automation in audit support and Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) processes, leveraging AI-driven solutions for proactive quality oversight.
- Lead continuous improvement and digital enablement initiatives, promoting widespread adoption of automation, intelligent reporting, automated workflows, and advanced analytics across quality-assurance activities.
- Oversee SLC monitoring activities by establishing automated dashboards, alerts, and reporting solutions to deliver actionable insights and ensure audit readiness.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for communications on quality events, facilitating issue tracking, documentation, and resolution, with a focus on root cause analysis and timely corrective actions.
- Remain proactive to regulatory trends and best practices, updating SLC and compliance processes as needed.
- Represent SQA in quality/governance forums, communicate metric-based outcomes, audit findings, and process improvements to business partners and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Manage support for internal and external audits, overseeing audit readiness, CAPA processes, and documentation of remediation efforts.
- Provide expert mentorship on quality system automation, AI enablement, quality metrics, and cross-functional process optimization.
- Lead and deliver targeted training for internal staff and business units on digital quality enablement, compliance monitoring, metrics management, and audit support tools.
- Supervise documentation, evidence management, and reporting to sustain compliance and facilitate investigations and audit support.
- Support Center of Excellence (CoE) operations in SLC communications, newsletters, meeting coordination, and digital reporting initiatives.
- Respond to escalations and critical issues in quality monitoring, coordinating cross-functional resolution.
- Participate in infrastructure risk and change management, ensuring processes are appropriately documented and compliant.
- Develop, monitor, and report on SQA metrics using automated data analytics to drive insights, gap closure, and transparent executive reporting.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's Degree with 7 years experience; Master's Degree with 6 years experience; PhD with 2 years experience
- Overall experience to include two of the following areas: Experience in a formal software development life cycle. Experience in regulated software environment. Software Quality experience, Project Management in software experience. Auditing Experience. Quality Systems experience.
- Strong experience in automation, pipeline technologies, workflow optimization, AI/ML solutions, and integration of DevOps tools to support communications and audit-readiness functions.
- Demonstrated success in cross-functional process improvement, risk management, audit support, and CAPA execution.
- Experience supporting regulatory audits/inspections and implementing quality monitoring solutions.
- Advanced project management, analytical, and documentation skills; ability to create and teach knowledge materials for diverse audiences.
- Ability to coach teams in policy, SLC execution, and regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of Computer Software Assurance (CSA), digital transformation in quality, and contemporary validation practices.
Preferred:
- US regulations (GMP parts 11, 58, 210, 211, and 820). ASQ Certified CQA/CSQE.
- Supervisory experience.
- Professional certifications (e.g., ASQ CQA, PMP, Six Sigma).
Additional Information
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.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.
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 and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
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Align your credentials to specialty occupation
Your Australian engineering degree must map directly to the Principal Engineer role, not engineering broadly. A three-year bachelor's is generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree, but have your transcripts ready to demonstrate the field alignment.
Target employers with active LCA filing histories
Search the DOL's OFLC disclosure data for companies that have filed Labor Condition Applications for senior engineering roles. Employers already familiar with LCA requirements move faster and make fewer errors during your sponsorship process.
Clarify the job description before the LCA is filed
The LCA locks in your job title and wage level. If your responsibilities span architecture, people management, and hands-on development, work with your employer to define the role accurately before filing, an imprecise description can create problems at the consulate.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the paperwork
Once you have an offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork end-to-end. This avoids the common errors that delay consulate appointments, and gets your application moving within one business day of engagement.
Prepare for nonimmigrant intent questions at the consulate
Consular officers will ask about your ties to Australia and your long-term intentions. As a Principal Engineer, you're likely to be asked about equity, leadership track, and whether you intend to remain permanently, prepare specific, honest answers that frame your U.S. move as career-driven, not permanent resettlement.
Negotiate your start date around LCA certification timing
The DOL typically certifies LCAs within seven business days, but your employer still needs to post the LCA notice at the worksite for ten consecutive business days before filing. Build this into your offer negotiation so your start date is realistic and avoids a rushed consulate booking.
E-3 Visa Principal Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Principal Engineer jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search, it surfaces Principal Engineer roles at employers with active E-3 and LCA filing histories, so you're not cold-applying to companies that have never sponsored an Australian before. Filtering by visa type and role seniority saves significant time compared to manually cross-referencing DOL disclosure data.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Principal Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, in most cases. Principal Engineer roles typically require a bachelor's degree or higher in electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, or a closely related field, which meets the specialty occupation definition. The key is that the degree requirement must be specific to the field, not a general requirement that any bachelor's degree would satisfy. If your job description is broad, work with your employer to tighten the role definition before the LCA is filed.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for a Principal Engineer?
The E-3 is a materially better path for Australian nationals at this level. There's no lottery, no annual cap, and no registration fee, you can apply any time of year after receiving a job offer. The H-1B visa requires surviving a randomized lottery with roughly a one-in-four selection rate. For a Principal Engineer with an offer in hand, the E-3 means starting your role on a predictable timeline rather than waiting on lottery results.
Can I switch employers or get promoted while on an E-3 as a Principal Engineer?
Yes to both, but each requires action. Changing employers means your new employer must file a fresh LCA and you'll need a new E-3 visa or amended status before starting the new role. A promotion that changes your job title, responsibilities, or wage level materially enough may also require an amended LCA. Don't assume your existing visa automatically covers a new role, confirm the scope of the change with your employer before accepting.