Sr. Principal Engineer, Embedded Software

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients. 

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work. 

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives— where your purpose accelerates our mission. 

Your Role at Baxter

Baxter’s mission is to save and sustain lives, and as a Lead Engineer, your work contributes directly to achieving that mission and making a significant impact on others. It's challenging work, but we help each other. Our teams collaborate cross-functionally and work together to achieve the best outcome for patients and caregivers.
 

What you’ll be doing

As a Sr. Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the research and development of advanced medical products saving lives across the whole world.  You will be involved with and have influence over the whole device lifecycle, including architecture, design, development, and sustaining engineering for new and existing products. The successful candidate will possess solid hands-on technical abilities, an understanding of modern software practices, a vision for software development, and a passion for their work in transforming healthcare.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement portions of the software for new and existing devices, leading with determining project schedules, technology usage, architecture and design, and supporting the team with your technical expertise.
• Take responsibility for providing technical guidance, and leadership within the team to facilitate the completion and delivery of software.
• Apply strong software engineering expertise and best practice to design and implement robust software architectures, while influencing the processes and methodologies used by the team to create quality software.
• Develop software components for bare metal designs up to complex Linux systems using modern C++, that will be deployed in medical environments.
• Usage of strong software engineering practices including using design patterns, object-oriented principles, unit testing, automated testing and software evaluation tools.
• Participate in the formal documentation processes for requirements generation, software architecture, and detailed designs.
• Research and develop new features and functions that will transform healthcare for the future.
• Participate in the sustaining engineering effort for existing products, as well as participate in the development of future products.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years’ experience in software engineering utilizing C/C++. Real-time embedded development a plus.
• 5+ years’ experience developing software in a Linux environment.
• Understanding of Yocto build systems, bash, bitbake, Python, Cyber Security concepts and methods, and medical device development is strongly preferred.
• Ideal candidate will have a demonstrated understanding of object-oriented designs utilizing design patterns, and SOLID design principles. They will be a self-starter possessing excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills who is customer centric, collaborative, and decisive.
• A desire to serve as the cross functional software representative on a project and/or mentor, lead, and task junior level engineers is preferred.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal requirements. At its discretion, Baxter may decide to adjust, suspend, or discontinue as business needs change.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all our employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. To that end, this position has a salary range of $128,000 to $176,000 and also includes an annual incentive bonus. The above range represe