Principal Electrical Engineer

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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.

Baxter seeks a Principal Electrical Engineer to join our Infusion Technologies business in Round Lake, IL. The Principal Electrical Engineer is an exciting role in supporting hardware design activities within our research and development team. Primary focus of the role will be to provide electrical engineering support for product development, responsible for performing engineering analysis, design, and verification to requirements.
This role is based out of the Round Lake, IL location. Relocation Assistance available.

• Work in a collaborative design team to develop new embedded devices which interact in complex infusion systems.
• Apply Electrical Engineering Principals to problem solving items such as electrical circuit design, component selection, product enhancements, and technical specification development.
• Conceive, design, and build prototypes.
• Understand and conduct fundamental electrical design and testing activities on electrical components, PCBA’s, power supplies, wireless modules, batteries etc.
• Use standard problem-solving methodology to determine root cause and effective solutions to problems.
• Design and coordinate research and test to validate, analyze and solve technical problems.
• Document designs and analyses per regulatory process, including hardware requirements, hardware detailed design, DFMEA, Risk Analysis, and verification requirements.
• Write Test Procedures/Protocols, conduct design reviews, design Verification & Validation plans, detailed and accurate test reports.
• Support our Manufacturing team as needed to resolve Production yield issues, and parts obsolescence issues.
• Guide other engineers on their designs, and also receives guidance from more senior engineers.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis on field returns as needed.

• BS Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar technical degree.
• 5+ years experience in hardware design, preferably in medical industry or similar regulated industry.
• Strong Interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with others in a team environment.
• Proficient with analog and digital electrical circuit design, with demonstrated competency developing electrical schematics and PCB layouts.
• Proficient with lab equipment such as oscilloscope, current probes, spectrum analyzer, DMM, etc.
• Experience with Analog and Digital circuit designs and troubleshooting.

This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our 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), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching.

We also offer 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…