Job Description

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\xe2\x80\x94where your purpose accelerates our mission.

About Baxter
Baxter provides a broad portfolio of essential renal and hospital products, including home, acute and in-center dialysis; sterile IV solutions; infusion systems and devices; parenteral nutrition; surgery products and anesthetics; and pharmacy automation, software and services. The company\xe2\x80\x99s global footprint and the critical nature of its products and services play a key role in expanding access to healthcare in emerging and developed countries. Baxter\xe2\x80\x99s employees worldwide are building upon the company\xe2\x80\x99s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the next generation of healthcare innovations that enable patient care.

Position Overview

A Principal Engineer for software will be responsible for development of products and providing creative solutions associated with the design, development, and sustaining engineering for our new and existing software product portfolio. The successful candidate will possess solid \xe2\x80\x9chands-on\xe2\x80\x9d technical abilities, an excitement and energy for product development, and a passion for their work and the impact it has on meeting the needs of patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the architecture and design of a module/project, makes architecture and design choices for new product development, sustenance activities, field issue resolution etc.
• Responsible for software requirement management \xe2\x80\x93 elicitation, SMART requirements, traceability etc.
• Reviews and approves the design of a module/project.
• Owns/leads technology strategy and roadmap for the product line.
• Demonstrates customer focus by ensuring quality of software releases and timely resolution of field reported issues.
• Responsible for analyzing and understanding the requirements.
• Identifies key module/product level technical risks and assists project manager in developing mitigation and recovery plan.
• Review work products and ensure the quality of deliverables.
• Provides input to the test strategies at a product level.
• Provides guidance to development and test teams with respect to overall design and development.
• Leads and coaches the team members.
• Drives the application of principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring, and testing techniques.
• Owns and drives continuous improvement activities by identifying and appropriately escalating process and product quality gaps.

Qualifications / Experience and/or Background

• Excellent software architecture, design, and implementation skills
• Expertise in development and maintenance of Software embedded/distributed systems.
• Hands on experience in model based development (MBD) using MathWorks tool suite including Simulink, Simspace, Embedded Coder etc.
• Ability to develop control loop algorithms using MathWorks tool suite.
• Strong Object-Oriented development and design knowledge and experience
• Deep understanding of building custom Linux distribution using Yocto project for any hardware specification, make/c-make and build system setup.
• Deep understanding of technology & software development principles:

Analysis and Design: Object oriented architecture, Design Patterns

Programming: C, C++, Python, C# etc

Development and Continuous Integration: Visual Studio/Eclipse, SVN, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, BitBucket, Jira etc.

OS: Embedded Linux, VxWorks etc. * Experience in technically leading project teams involving SW architects and SW design engineers.

• Exposure to software quality practices including CI/CD.
• Demonstrated success in delivering results on technical challenges.
• Good understanding of Healthcare domain (regulations and standards) and Medical software development process including IEC 62304.

Personal Characteristics

• Excellent communication, inter-personal and leadership skills
• Firm decision maker and shall possess good influencing skills
• Openness to collaborate in interest of project/organization.
• Proactive and self-driven, possesses due sense of urgency
• Shall possess systems mindset and good problem-solving abilities.
• Working with multisite teams, Quality conscious and Process & customer Oriented
• Coaching capabilities.

A Career That Matters

Baxter\xe2\x80\x99s employees are united in a mission to save and sustain lives. We are passionate about applying scientific innovation to meet the needs of the millions of people worldwide who depend on our medically necessary therapies and technologies. We focus on increasing access to healthcare, innovating in crucial areas of unmet need, and pursuing creative collaborations that bring our mission to life for patients every day.

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, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please send an e-mail to Americas_TTA@baxter.com and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.

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