This is where your work saves lives

The exploration we engage in and the products we create enhance results for patients worldwide. As a Principal Engineer at Baxter, your contributions directly impact making a significant difference for others. It is demanding work, yet you are not isolated. Our teams collaborate across functions and lead through influence. Whether guiding a team in a project or supervising direct reports, our research and development team is accountable for motivating others to accomplish results.

Our colleagues within our R&D organization desire to work on products that make a meaningful difference in others' lives. We are motivated by the power of teamwork and are natural leaders who are skilled at influencing others.

In the position of Principal Engineer at Baxter, you will deploy your analytical strategy to swiftly uncover risks and innovative prospects. Remaining nimble and proactive, you exhibit calmness under pressure.

While everyone at Baxter has a shared passion for our mission, the R&D teams play a meaningful role in our ability to save and sustain lives. Scientists and engineers in R&D collaborate to develop, test, and launch products that improve patient care.

We encourage teamwork and collaboration and prioritize building relationships with each other. Its easy to do because we all share common traits of reliability, ethicality, and caring. We lean on our colleagues for their expertise and hold each other accountable.

• Engage with business collaborators and customers to grasp their challenges and requirements

• Define the product from a requirements perspective and analyze it for risk

• Translate customer needs, business constraints, and regulatory requirements into functional and performance requirements

• Collaborate with system architects and engineers to ensure the requirements define major modules, concepts, intended environments, and the relationships between them

• Ensure robust, reliable, and secure system interfaces and integrations

• Develop and maintain the functional specification documentation in a lightweight and concise format, while still being thorough and detailed

• Coordinate maintenance of the risk management plan, including the risk analysis, by identifying and mitigating hazards associated with a design

• Evaluate risk by using methodologies such as DFMEA and Risk/Hazard Analysis

• 5+ years experience in a Systems Engineer, Business Analyst, System Analyst, or similar requirements definition role

• BS Degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc.) or equivalent experience

• Experience working on complex hardware and software projects involving embedded systems, network communications, and web services

• Above average verbal and written communication skills

• Skilled at leading meetings, conflict resolution, and making presentations

• Strategic problem solver who can complete tasks with great attention to detail

• Must be able to work in the absence of complete information and remain able to make timely, high-quality decisions

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 employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $104,000-$143,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.

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.

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