Sr Principal Systems Engineer (Hybrid)

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

This is where your work saves lives

As a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer at Baxter, you will contribute directly to our mission to empower clinicians and health systems with tools to make a difference in patients and clinicians' lives. It's ambitious work-and you're not on your own.

You will play a key role in the full life cycle of products within the Front Line Care business unit. This role bears key responsibility with the Patient Monitoring portfolio as a member of a multi-disciplinary development team for new products. You will understand and define customer needs; product functionality and performance requirements; product architecture, constraints, and trade-offs; and design and interface requirements of new products being developed.

We are looking for someone to lead engineering team members on the overall design of the final product and hold responsibility for all system engineering activities to ensure a safe and effective product.

Your Team

You will be a part of the Patient Monitoring team, which supports both new product development projects and sustainment of currently marketed products. You will work with a cross functional team that consists of other engineering disciplines, operations, and quality assurance. We work together to develop, test, and launch products that improve patient care.

We encourage partnership, collaboration and prioritize building relationships with each other. Our teams support innovation and out-of-the-box thinking balanced with shared expertise and accountability.

What you'll be doing

• Interact with all business and customer partners to understand their problems and needs
• Define the needs in a stakeholder needs document which is reviewed and approved by cross functional team members;
• Translate customer needs, business constraints, and regulatory requirements into product functional and performance system requirements
• Conduct risk management activities including planning, risk analysis, risk evaluation and control.
• Lead the engineering team through the development of system architecture options. Objectively and holistically communicate tradeoffs during the architecture selection process
• Participate in system and subsystem architecture and design process.
• Analyze and propose solutions for product and customer issues.
• Decompose and allocate system level requirements into module level requirements.
• Plan and look after reliability and robustness activities.
• Lead the technical team through technical risk identification and management as well as issue and test defect resolution.
• Ensure changes are analyzed holistically and impacts are fully understood.
  

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's Degree (Mechanical, Electrical, Software Engineering or comparable technical subject area)
• 10+ years of engineering experience including fundamental understanding of Hardware and Software engineering
• Knowledge in ISO 14971 Application of Risk Management to Medical Devices is preferred
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead and work collaboratively with others multi-functionally
• Ability to work in the absence of complete information and make timely decisions
• Strategic problem solver and can execute with excellent attention to detail
• Organization & ability to progress on many different tasks in parallel
• Ability to plan, estimate and accurately track deliverables
• Ability to write clear, concise, and verifiable requirements
• Adaptability, open to change and continuously looks for ways to improve and simplify sophisticated work

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission.

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 base salary range of $120,000 to $165,000 plus an annual incentive bonus, commission target. The above range represents the expected base salary range for this position. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in the role, business line, and geographic/office location. #LI-ASR2

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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