Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems

Join Baxter Healthcare Corporation as a Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems and begin an ambitious journey to transform healthcare delivery! This outstanding opportunity places you within our Care Communications business in Raleigh, NC. Your work will directly support clinical communication and collaboration, enhancing patient safety and happiness in acute care hospital settings.

As a Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems, you will play a pivotal role in supporting embedded software development activities within our research and development team. Your primary focus will be on providing engineering support and firmware development for new product development. You will be responsible for performing engineering analysis, building, and verification to requirements.

What You'll Do:

• Participate in requirement analysis, detailed development, and verification activities for products or solutions.
• Make difficult build trade-offs and decisions about features, schedule, quality, and cost.
• Seek efficient technology solutions to problems and apply appropriate methodologies to identify issues and concerns.
• Have primary accountability for major elements of projects, determine all required tasks, and ensure successful project outcomes.
• Build, develop, and test to validate effects and consequences of builds, processes, or product improvements across projects and products.
• Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies such as Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring, and testing techniques.
• Participate in continuous improvement activities by identifying and appropriately advancing process and product quality gaps.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline with 5+ years of embedded software development experience.
• Strong expertise in C/C++ development for microcontrollers and microprocessors, with solid object-oriented design principles.
• Broad understanding of software engineering best practices, embedded systems, and standard development methodologies.
• Proficiency with development and CI tools (e.g., Visual Studio/Eclipse, Git, Bitbucket, Jira) and experience working in Linux/Embedded Linux environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of embedded protocols and technologies (RS485, UART, SPI, etc.), programmers/debuggers (JTAG/SWD), and hardware debugging tools.
• Ability to debug hardware and software issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and related equipment.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a proven track record of delivering results, creating effective technical documentation, and solving complex problems., This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare

benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our employees. For additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits, please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits | Baxter

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.