Principal Eng, Software

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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the architecture and design of a product, makes architecture and design choices for new product development, sustenance activities, field issue resolution etc.
• Responsible for technically leading sustenance activities, field issue resolution working with the local and globally distributed teams and with hands on approach for solving issues.
• Reviews and approves the design of a module/project.
• Owns/leads technology strategy and roadmap for one or more product lines.
• Demonstrates customer focus by ensuring quality of software releases and timely resolution of field reported issues.
• Responsible for analyzing and understanding the product requirements and deriving the Software requirements.
• Identifies key product level technical risks and assists project manager in developing mitigation and recovery plan.
• Review work products and ensure the quality of deliverables.
• Provides input to the test strategies at a product level.
• Provides guidance to development and test teams with respect to overall design and development.
• Leads and coaches the team members and play an active role in their development.
• Assess and identify actions to improve the competency (technical/product) of the team.
• Drives 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 escalating process and product quality gaps.

Qualifications:

• Excellent software architecture, design and implementation skills
• Expertise in development and maintenance of Software embedded/distributed systems
• Strong Object-Oriented development and design knowledge and experience
• Deep understanding of technology & software development principles
• Key skill are Linux Kernel • Bootloaders • U-Boot • Yocto • Bitbake • Board bring up • Device tree • Device drivers
• Experience in technically leading project teams involving SW architects and SW design engineers.
• Demonstrated success in delivering results on technical challenges.
• Good understanding of Healthcare domain (regulations and standards) and Medical software development process is a plus.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science & Engineering discipline or equivalent is required. 
• 10+ years’ experience in a software engineering role, with experience in embedded software products and PC based applications.

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.

Reasonable Accommodations
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