Principal Systems Engineer

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your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride.

The research we do and the products we develop improve outcomes for patients around the world. As a Principal Systems Engineer at Baxter, your work contributes directly to making a significant impact on others. It's exciting work—and you're not on your own. Our teams collaborate cross-functionally and lead by influence.

Our colleagues within our R&D organization desire to work on products that make a meaningful difference in others lives. We are motivated by the power of teamwork and are natural leaders who are skilled at influencing others!

In this role, you will be a part of a multidisciplinary new product development team! This position will understand and define customer needs; product functionality and performance requirements; product architecture, constraints and trade-offs; design and interface requirements, of new products being developed. You will support the overall design of the final product and responsible for all risk management activities to ensure a safe and effective product.

While everyone at Baxter has a shared passion for our mission, the R&D teams play a meaningful role in our ability to save and sustain lives. The team in R&D work together to develop, test, and launch products to improve patient care.

A Principal Systems Engineer will be responsible for development of products and providing creative solutions associated with the design, development, and sustaining engineering for our new and existing product portfolio. The successful candidate will possess solid “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.

• Accountable for the entire product development process - from engaging with customers and marketing to compose and develop user needs, to the eventual product launch.
• Plays a critical role in product development, making sure the product meets all the functional and performance requirements, and ensuring the manufacturing and service requirements are translated into product design.
• Lead the development and documentation of the product systems architecture and systems level design, including the decomposition of the system architecture and requirements into subsystem and interface specifications.
• Provide technical leadership to the development team to ensure that the project successfully meets cost, quality, and schedule targets throughout the product life cycle.
• Resolve competing constraints between interrelated functions (engineering, manufacturing, regulatory, marketing, etc.) required to deliver the product to market.
• Plan and carry out system integration tasks to reduce problems in systems verification and validation.
• Document traceability from requirements to verification activities, and from requirements to design entities.
• Resolve systems-related technical issues by applying problem solving tools such as cause and effect diagrams, Pareto charts, etc.
• As lead integrator for the product, proactively look out for integration issues during development tests and ensure module/system development is successful.
• Adheres to Baxter Quality Management system & supports the quality audits.

• Graduate or Post-Graduate in Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical, or related Engineering.
• 8+ years of relevant technical…