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Senior Engineer, Electrical
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.
- Provides technical contribution within an area of expertise to lead requirement, analysis, detailed design and support activities for an assigned product, project or solution. Provides guidance to other engineers on their technical issues, engages in design reviews and help resolves problems of medium complexity.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Contributes as a technical lead/team member.
- Identifies technical problems, provides innovative, creative solutions; shares technical knowledge with team.
- Incorporates business, market, industry and competitive knowledge into technical solutions that can be readily adapted to changes in technology and/or clinical use.
- Generates alternatives and takes reasonable risks while solving technical problems.
- Completes detailed, high quality technical documentation to capture and communicate designs.
- Seeks knowledge of the business, market, industry and competitive environment.
- Consider difficult design trade-offs and decisions about features, schedule, quality and cost.
- Uses existing tools and best practices to report and track product and process metrics.
- Challenges project teams and established work processes and proactively finds creative methods to reach desired performance levels
- Informs others proactively about developments or issues that affect their work, and their ability to meet commitments.
- Influences the redesign of systems or products to better meet organizational needs.
- Has broad understanding of other functional areas.
- Other duties may be assigned.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (preferably in Electrical Engineering or equivalent)
- 5 to 7+ years of engineering experience with proven track record in product design and development.
- Excellent background in fundamentals of circuit design and analysis.
- Experience with industry leading software tools for schematic entry and PCB layout design.
- Hands-on experience with analog/digital circuit and embedded systems designs is required.
- Hands-on experience with embedded platforms, 8-, 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers, Arm Cortex-M series processors.
- Experience with established development tools and processes. Especially PSpice, OrCAD, Mentor’s DxDesigner and Expedition.
- Experience in CAN, SPI, I2C and UART.
- Experience in designing circuits involving more than one of the following is preferred:
Battery, Blower, Compressor, Motor control and Solenoid control.
- Previous experience with Medical Devices, FDA Regulations or other applicable regulatory requirements. Experience in FDA QSR (21 CFR Part 820) is preferred.
- UL/IEC 60601-1 experience is preferred. Working knowledge of ISO13485 and CE/UL certification is a plus.
- Experience in design QA, DFx, and DFMEA are preferred.
- Experience with project management is preferred.
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
- Ability to generate alternative solutions to problems or processes.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with others in a team environment
- Strong root cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
- Strong ability to multi-task and adapt in a dynamic work environment.
- Good understanding of product design and development life cycle.
- Knowledge in EMC/EMI/ESD standards and compliance is necessary for success in this role.
Good historical knowledge of technologies and designs as applied or applicable to Hillrom’s product portfolio
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