Sr. Principal Engineer, Embedded Software

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Your Role at Baxter

Baxter’s mission is to save and sustain lives, and as a Sr. Principal 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.
• Proven leadership and participation in an agile software development environment with experience leading scrum meetings, upkeep and grooming backlogs, sprint/PI planning, facilitating retrospectives, and providing execution metrics for project management.
• Take responsibility for providing technical guidance, and leadership within the team to facilitate the completion and delivery of software, while maintaining the highest quality standards.
• 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++, Python, Rust, or other languages and frameworks that will be deployed in medical environments.
• Usage of strong software engineering practices including using design patterns, test driven development, object-oriented principles, integrated 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.

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