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Senior Principal Software Systems Engineer

Baxter
parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k), employee discount
United States, North Carolina, Raleigh
Jun 06, 2025
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 At Baxter, we are on a mission to revolutionize healthcare through innovative technology. As a Senior Principal Systems Engineer in our software organization, you will play a pivotal role in developing cutting-edge healthcare solutions that enhance patient care and meet the highest regulatory standards. Your expertise will directly impact the development and sustainability of our Infusion Pump Platforms, ensuring that we deliver exceptional products that truly make a difference in the lives of patients and healthcare providers. What You'll Be Doing In this dynamic role, you will: Drive Innovation: Implement best practices in software systems development and product lifecycles, collaborating closely with our talented development team to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare technology. Lead with Expertise: Serve as a technical leader, providing guidance and constructive feedback to team members on their technical work, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and excellence. Solve Complex Challenges: Develop innovative technical solutions to intricate software system problems, delivering high-quality results on tight schedules that meet the demands of our fast-paced environment. Collaborate Across Functions: Lead cross-functional teams, including Commercial and Clinical stakeholders, to translate user needs into precise system requirements, ensuring that our products align with real-world applications. Manage Risk Effectively: Conduct comprehensive risk analysis activities for software, identifying inherent hazards and implementing effective mitigation strategies to safeguard our products and users. Define Testing Strategies: Work alongside verification engineers to establish robust test strategies for the development of verification and validation plans, utilizing requirement tracing methods to ensure compliance and quality. Participate in Design Reviews: Engage in software design reviews for components and features, contributing your insights to enhance product functionality and user experience. Agile Planning and Execution: Utilize your agile planning skills to estimate, schedule, and complete committed tasks, ensuring that projects stay on track and within scope. Enhance Collaboration: Drive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, empowering the team to adopt better processes, practices, and technical mentorship, while transforming software requirements into effective test architectures. Interface with Key Teams: Collaborate with manufacturing, service, and customer training staff throughout the design transfer process, ensuring seamless integration and support for our products. Ensure Compliance: Uphold the highest standards of compliance with product development processes and quality systems, contributing to our commitment to excellence in healthcare solutions. What You'll Bring To thrive in this role, you should possess: A Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline, complemented by 10+ years of experience in systems engineering or a related field. Experience with electro-mechanical devices is preferred, showcasing your ability to bridge software and hardware solutions. A strong background in agile development, with hands-on experience in creating and maintaining product backlogs. Exceptional oral and written communication skills, enabling you to articulate complex ideas clearly and effectively. Familiarity with working in a regulated industry, demonstrating your understanding of compliance and quality assurance processes. Excellent documentation skills, ensuring that all technical specifications and processes are meticulously recorded and maintained. Why Baxter? At Baxter, you will be part of a collaborative and innovative team dedicated to making a positive impact on global healthcare. We offer a dynamic work environment where your contributions are valued, and your professional growth is supported. Join us in our mission to save and sustain lives through technology that matters. If you are a passionate and innovative software engineer ready to shape the future of healthcare technology, we want to hear from you! Apply now and be part of our journey to create life-changing solutions for millions of people around the world. 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 $128,000 to $176,000 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. #LI-MS1 US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico) 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 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. Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Reasonable Accommodations Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please click on the link here and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information. Recruitment Fraud Notice 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.