Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems

Your Role at Baxter

Join Baxter Healthcare Corporation as a Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems and begin an ambitious journey to transform healthcare delivery! This outstanding 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 technical concentration and 5+ years of experience
• Expertise in software development in C/C++ for microcontrollers/microprocessors.
• Strong Object‑Oriented development and build knowledge and experience.
• Broad understanding of technology, software development principles, and standard methodologies.
• Proficiency with development and Continuous Integration tools such as Visual Studio/Eclipse, Git, Bit Bucket, Jira.
• Comfort working with Linux and Embedded Linux.
• Experience and knowledge of standard embedded technology and protocols (RS485, UART, SPI, etc).
• Familiarity with embedded programmers and debuggers (JTAG/SWD).
• Ability to perform hardware debug using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters, etc.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Effective documentation skills for software architecture and development.
• Proven success in delivering results on technical challenges.

Health and well‑being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short‑term and long‑term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and 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.

Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits.

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. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.

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