Sr. 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 Sr. Principal Systems Engineer at Baxter, your work contributes directly to making a significant impact on others. It's challenging 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!

• Manage and own the technical roadmap for product families, integrate technical roadmaps with Upstream Marketing product roadmaps
• Work with Program Management, Upstream Marketing and Customers to plan new development, initiate product change activities, understand & translate market needs into technical product requirements & workflows. Work with cross functional team members (e.g., Marketing and Clinical personnel) to translate user needs into system requirements. Serve as liaison VOC from Marketing to Engineering.
• Work with Engineering Project Management to define and scope projects to achieve program goals. Participate as a member of project teams for the assigned program.
• Lead development of Design Inputs and Digital Interface Requirements.
• Develop User and Clinical Workflows to drive requirement analysis
• Own System Architecture
• Lead engineering resources (Electrical, Mechanical, and Software) in the decomposition of system requirements to derived requirements.
• Contributes to resolution of competing constraints among inter-related functions (e.g., engineering, manufacturing, regulatory, marketing) required to deliver products to market. Lead Decision Making using tools such as Decision Matrices to evaluate trade-offs.
• Resolves interface issues and have the ability to document theory of operations of complex medical product designs.
• Work with verification engineers to define test strategies for the development of verification plans and validation plans using requirement tracing methods.
• Owner of the Design History File (DHF). Responsible for ensuring technical product requirements are clearly & thoroughly documented, and verified & validated. This includes the following:
• Ensures usability requirements are adequately incorporated per IEC 62366.
• Lead technical resource for Risk Management analysis activities per IEC 14971 including capturing hazards, mitigations, and residual risk determination.
• Lead Coordination and review of system and design level requirements to ensure they adequately meet system requirements, market needs, serviceability and manufacturability of the product.
• Member of multi-functional support team; duties as needed include serving as critical issue point-person, lead product support meetings, participate in CAPA activities, asist with complaint & post-market investigations.
• Oversee platform-based product designs that meet needs for…