At Baxter, we believe every person deserves a chance to live a healthy life. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Join our dynamic team as a Senior Principal Software Systems Engineer in the R&D/Software organization, where you will play a pivotal role in developing groundbreaking healthcare solutions.
Requirements
- Driving Best Practices: Implement and champion best practices in software systems development and product lifecycles, utilizing Agile PDLC/SDLC and Systems Engineering methodologies in collaboration with development and verification teams.
- Technical Leadership: Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a distributed R&D team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
- Complex Problem Solving: Develop innovative technical solutions to complex software system challenges, delivering high-quality results within tight deadlines.
- Architectural Contributions: Assist in establishing robust system and software architectures for digital applications, ensuring alignment with established design inputs.
- User Needs Translation: Identify and capture user needs for digital applications, translating them into functional and non-functional system requirements. Lead cross-functional teams to ensure these needs are effectively integrated into system requirements.
- Documentation and Compliance: Write, maintain, and own system-level and software-level design inputs/requirements, ensuring compliance with established Quality Management Systems (QMS) and regulatory frameworks.
- Risk Management: Lead ISO 14971-based risk analysis activities, from identifying inherent hazards to implementing effective mitigation strategies.
- Verification and Validation: Collaborate with verification engineers to define test strategies for system and software verification and validation plans, utilizing requirement tracing methods.
- Hands-On Testing: Conduct ad-hoc testing of in-development and developed software systems to ensure ongoing product quality.
- Agile Execution: Enforce and support teams in executing Agile/Scrum planning, including estimating, scheduling, and completing committed tasks.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Drive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to enhance processes, practices, and technical mentorship, transforming software requirements into effective test architectures.
- Design Transfer Process: Interface with manufacturing, field service, operations, and customer training staff throughout the design transfer process.
- Issue Resolution: Ensure that product complaints and issues are addressed promptly, with appropriate impact assessments on requirements and risks.
- Compliance Assurance: Uphold compliance with the product development process and quality system standards.
Benefits
- Medical and dental coverage
- Basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Business travel accident insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Educational assistance programs
- 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
- Commuting benefits
- Employee Discount Program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Childcare benefits
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) with company matching
