Principal Systems Engineer

This is where
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!

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.

• 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 experience, including some previous mentoring experience.
• A demonstrated track record in system development— covering requirements management, risk management, cybersecurity, usability, performance and reliability.
• Experience in using tools/practices like QFD, Pugh Matrix, CTQ, DFR, DFX.
• Systems development experience in diagnostic cardiology medical devices or any other medical device is a definite plus.
• Agile product development experience preferred.
• Excellent communication, inter‑personal and leadership skills.
• Firm decision maker and shall possess good influencing skills.
• Openness to collaborate in interest of project/organization.
• Mentoring capabilities.

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