Principal Software Systems Engineer

As a Senior Principal Software Systems Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Driving Best Practices: Implement and champion best practices in software systems development and product lifecycles, utilizing Agile PDLC/SDLC and Systems Engineering methodologies in collaboration with development and verification teams. Utilize AI (prompt engineering, agentic AI, AI extensions on existing tools, etc.) to implement rapid requirements and risk prototyping, while maintaining quality and accuracy.
• Technical Leadership: Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a distributed R&D team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Complex Problem Solving: Develop innovative technical solutions to complex software system challenges, delivering high-quality results within tight deadlines.
• Architectural Contributions: Assist in establishing robust system and software architectures for digital applications, ensuring alignment with established design inputs. Ensure systems of systems and interoperability considerations are accounted for and represented in the architectures.
• ·User Needs Translation: Identify and capture user needs for digital applications, translating them into functional and non-functional system requirements. Lead cross-functional teams to ensure these needs are effectively integrated into system requirements.
• Desing Inputs and Compliance: Write, maintain, and own system-level and software-level design inputs/requirements, ensuring compliance with established Quality Management Systems (QMS) and regulatory frameworks such as ISO 13485 and IEC 62304.
• Risk Management: Lead ISO 14971-based risk analysis activities, from identifying inherent hazards to implementing effective mitigation strategies.
• Verification and Validation: Collaborate with verification engineers to define test strategies for system and software verification and validation plans, utilizing requirement tracing methods.
• Hands-On Testing: Conduct ad-hoc testing of in-development and developed software systems to ensure ongoing product quality.
• Agile Execution: Enforce and support teams in executing Agile/Scrum planning, including estimating, scheduling, and completing committed tasks.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Drive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to enhance processes, practices, and technical mentorship, transforming software requirements into effective test architectures.
• Design Transfer Process: Interface with manufacturing, field service, operations, and customer training staff throughout the design transfer process.
• Issue Resolution: Ensure that product complaints and issues are addressed promptly, with appropriate impact assessments on requirements and risks.
• Compliance Assurance: Uphold compliance with the product development process and quality system standards., If you are a passionate and innovative software systems engineer eager to shape the future of healthcare technology, we want to hear from you! Join us in our mission to develop best-in-class standards and practices that will revolutionize patient care and enhance the lives of countless individuals. Your expertise will directly contribute to creating solutions that save and sustain lives.

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.

• A Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline with 10+ years of experience, or a Master’s degree with 8+ years of experience.
• Proven experience with regulated products and connected systems in the medical devices/biotechnology industry.
• Experience with cloud-based digital applications is preferred. (e.g. SaaS/PaaS/IaaS environments with AWS/Azure or similar CSPs). Experience with implementing AI/ML paradigms in Digital Applications a plus.
• Familiarity with electro-mechanical devices is preferred.
• Expertise in requirements management, risk management, and development in an Agile environment, including experience in creating and maintaining product backlogs.
• Knowledge of implementing and enforcing medical device cybersecurity design paradigms is a plus.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
• Strong documentation skills and experience in a regulated industry.

This is where new knowledge is discovered. Baxter’s Research and Development teams work cross functionally to innovate, develop and introduce creative solutions for patients needs globally. From Scientists to Engineers, your work creates the products that save and sustain lives.

• Support for Parents
• Continuing Education/ Professional Development
• Employee Health & Well-Being Benefits
• Paid Time Off
• 2 Days a Year to Volunteer

Success Profile

What makes a successful Research and Development team member at Baxter? Take a look at some of the top traits we’re looking for and see if you’re a fit.

• Courage
• Action Oriented
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Manages Ambiguity
• Drives Results, 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, Our company is enriched by a diverse population of individuals in more than 100 countries that work to solve, innovate, manufacture and drive better healthcare options for patients around the world.

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

Join our dynamic team as a Senior Principal Software Systems Engineer in the R&D/Software organization, where you will play a pivotal role in developing groundbreaking healthcare solutions. You will be at the forefront of new product development and sustaining activities within our Infusion Pump Platforms and connected ecosystem Digital Applications group, ensuring we meet customer needs while adhering to the highest regulatory standards. If you are passionate about transforming healthcare technology and eager to make a significant impact, this is the opportunity for you!, Baxter has discovered incidents of employment scams, where fraudulent parties pose as Baxter employees, recruiters, or other agents, and engage with online job seekers in an attempt to steal personal and/or financial information. To learn how you can protect yourself, review our Recruitment Fraud Notice., “For me, the best thing about working at Baxter is being able to do work that’s important to people-especially patients-outside of Baxter’s walls. Inside our walls, I get to work with a fantastic team, and we know we’re making a difference.”

Meet Karthik, Director of Renal Care R&D - Digital Health & Co-President of the Asian Leadership Network Business Resource Group, United States

“I’m excited about my role because I believe that digital initiatives can make a tremendous impact on lives by allowing people to access the same therapies and have similar care - whether in a hospital, a healthcare clinic, or the patient’s home - anywhere in the world.”