Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems

Overview

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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.

Join Baxter Healthcare Corporation as a Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems and begin an ambitious journey to transform healthcare delivery. This opportunity places you within our Care Communications business in Raleigh, NC. Your work will directly support clinical communication and collaboration, enhancing patient safety and happiness in acute care hospital settings.

As a Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems, you will play a pivotal role in supporting embedded software development activities within our research and development team. Your primary focus will be on providing engineering support and firmware development for new product development. You will be responsible for performing engineering analysis, building, and verification to requirements.

• Participate in requirement analysis, detailed development, and verification activities for products or solutions.
• Make difficult build trade-offs and decisions about features, schedule, quality, and cost.
• Seek efficient technology solutions to problems and apply appropriate methodologies to identify issues and concerns.
• Have primary accountability for major elements of projects, determine all required tasks, and ensure successful project outcomes.
• Build, develop, and test to validate effects and consequences of builds, processes, or product improvements across projects and products.
• Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies such as Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring, and testing techniques.
• Participate in continuous improvement activities by identifying and appropriately advancing process and product quality gaps.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline with 5+ years of embedded software development experience.
• Strong expertise in C/C++ development for microcontrollers and microprocessors, with solid objected‑oriented design principles.
• Broad understanding of software engineering best practices, embedded systems, and standard development methodologies.
• Proficiency with development and CI tools (e.g., Visual Studio/Eclipse, Git, Bitbucket, Jira) and experience working in Linux/Embedded Linux environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of embedded protocols and technologies (RS485, UART, SPI, etc.), programmers/debuggers (JTAG/SWD), and hardware debugging tools.
• Ability to debug hardware and software issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and related equipment.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a proven track record of delivering results, creating effective technical documentation, and solving complex problems.

Join us in making a difference today, tomorrow, and beyond!

Baxter is dedicated to addressing the demand for flexibility in the workplace. We offer a flexible workplace policy with a minimum number of days onsite each week to foster in-person connection and collaboration. This policy adheres to local laws and regulations. Baxter reserves the right to modify, pause, or end this policy as business needs evolve.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated base salary for this position is $112,000-$154,000 annually. The range reflects an anticipated salary for the position and may be adjusted based on market data, location, skills, experience, and other factors. This position may…