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

As a Principal Embedded Software Engineer - Diagnostic Cardiology, you will be responsible for the development of products and providing creative solutions associated with the design, development, and sustaining engineering for our new and existing software product portfolio. The ideal candidate will possess proven “hands-on” technical abilities, an excitement and energy for product development, and a passion for their work and the impact it has on meeting the needs of patients!

Your Team

Baxter’s suite of diagnostic cardiology solutions segment of the Front Line Care business unit products are standard of care for improving diagnostic yield, workflow efficiency, and long-range patient outcomes. The products include intelligent and connected devices that apply advance sensing capabilities to generate differentiated insights across key heart conditions (e.g. Arrhythmia, MI, CHF).

Connected solutions through vendor neutral shared platforms (i.e. Epiphany) can streamline workflows, EMR integration, and care pathways across the patient journey. Additionally, Clinical and remote services augment and support clinician and staff processes/services to provide concrete data on patients and devices. And finally, AI aided diagnosis and decision support capabilities improve diagnostic yields and efficiencies!

What you'll be doing

• Responsible for technically leading architecture and design choices for new product development, sustenance activities, field issue resolution, and working with the local and globally distributed teams with a hands on approach for solving issues.
• Review and approve the design and code of a module/project/defect fixes.
• Own/lead technology strategy and roadmap for the product line.
• Ensure quality of software releases and timely resolution of field reported issues.
• Responsible for analyzing and understanding requirements.
• Identify key module/product level technical risks and assist project manager in developing mitigation and recovery plans.
• Provides guidance to the test strategies at a product level while also guiding development teams with respect to overall design and development.
• Drive the application of principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring, and testing techniques.
• Owns and drives continuous improvement activities by identifying and appropriately calling out process and product quality gaps.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent is required.
• 5+ years of proven experience in a software engineering role, with experience in embedded software products and PC based applications.
• 2+ years’ experience developing software in a Linux environment.
• Understanding of Yocto build systems, Bash, BitBake, Python, Cyber Security concepts and methods, and medical device development is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of object-oriented designs applying design patterns, SOLID design principles, and test driven development.
• Excellent software architecture, design and implementation skills.
• Expertise in development and maintenance of Software embedded/distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of technology & software development principles: Programming: C, C++, and other languages used for embedded software development. Development and Continuous Integration: Visual Studio/Eclipse, SVN, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, BitBucket, Jira etc. OS: RTOS, Embedded Linux, VxWorks, etc.
• Demonstrated success in delivering results on technical challenges.
• Good understanding of Healthcare domain (regulations and standards) and Medical software development process.

The successful candidate for this job may be required to verify that he or she has been vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to reasonable accommodations for individuals with medical conditions or religious beliefs that prevent vaccination, and in accordance with applicable law.

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.

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