Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

Job Title:

Principal Engineer – Embedded Software

Summary:

This section focuses on the main purpose of the job in one to four sentences.

Baxter has long been on the forefront of developing innovative solutions for patients with kidney disease.  This position offers a unique and exciting opportunity to contribute to the embedded software architecture & design, development and support of features for Baxter’s CRRT Devices that provides dialysis in ICU environment.

The successful candidate will possess solid “hands-on” technical abilities, an excitement and energy for product development, sustaining current line of software product portfolio and a passion for their work and the impact it has on meeting the needs of patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

This section contains a list of primary responsibilities of this role that account for 5% or more of the work. The incumbent will perform other duties assigned.

• A solid technical understanding of the principles and procedures of software engineering (e.g., SDLC, IEC 62304, CMMI, Agile).
• Drive architecture /design /development of embedded software for class C medical device.
• Responsible for understanding product requirements and deriving software requirement.
• Design and Develop core platform features independently with high quality & aligned with product requirements.
• Responsible for Design algorithms using MATLAB and code generation.
• Responsible for activities like proposing the design alternatives, SW implementation, SW unit & integration tests, organizing the peer reviews, provide workload estimation, design documentation & continuous updates to the Platform Leader on the progress.
• Must ensure that architecture & design allows meeting time-to-market, exceeding quality targets, quick diagnosis of problems in the field, quick diagnosis of issues during product development and requirements evolution (scalable / extensible).
• Be passionate about software quality and be prepared to advocate on behalf of good processes and best practices.
• Work as a collaborative team member with global teams.
• Able to mentor/coach other junior people in the team to drive outcomes
• Demonstrates good awareness about competitors and industry standards
• Drive innovation and product improvements.
• Responsible for rapid prototyping of highly innovative concepts for concept/feasibility testing.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. List knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Process oriented and demonstrated proficiency in various software development lifecycle methodologies including Agile, Iterative, V-Model, etc.
• Possess knowledge of medical device standards.  
• Good experience on Embedded SW Architecture, Design, development, test & integration, debugging techniques.
• Good experience design algorithm using MATLAB.
• Solid understanding on system design/Architecture
• Good understanding of digital hardware design   
• Deep and broad understanding of many technological areas below:
  • Analysis and Design: Object oriented analysis and design, Design Patterns, UML
  • Systems Engineering: Requirements engineering, use-case development
  • Minimum of 10+ years of professional experience in embedded SW development
  • Deep understanding of OS: Embedded Linux/ RTOS. Preferably Integrity OS,
  • Experience on IDE: Multi/Eclipse
  • Expert in Programming Languages: C++, C
  • Expert in MATLAB and Simulink.
  • Good understanding of Networking and wireless protocols
  • Good understanding of protocols like serial I2C, UART, USB, Ethernet, WLAN, Bluetooth, stack, Wireless Technologies
  • Good experience in developing embedded applications, device drivers development.
  • Good Experience in debugging and demonstrated experience in analyzing complex issues with memory / threading / performance. Experience in using memory profiling tools. Ability to drive structured and methodological analysis for tough issues during development.
  • Experience in proof of concepting, drives feasibility studies
  • Experience on Gerrit/Git/Jenkins/Bucket and CI build process
  • Static and dynamic analysis tools like Valgrind, Coverity
  • Experience in profiling tools.
  • Experience in unit testing.
• Ability to organize and present technical status to senior management.
• Ability to convince management on courses of action using both written and verbal methods. Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated success in delivering results on several technical challenges.
• Passionate about continuous learning, can do attitude, wears Thinkers Hat, can work collaboratively with diverse teams, leverages current technologies, and believes in process simplification, quality conscious.
• Can influence, communicate with stakeholders effectively, self-driven, lead & mentor junior staff.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Shares knowledge, establishing trust, credibility and goodwill amongst stakeholders.

Background and/or Experience:

Bachelors / Masters .in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering or related field and 10+ years related experience.

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Reasonable Accommodations

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