Principal Engineer - Electrical

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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. Our mission is to save and sustain lives. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

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. The primary focus of the role will be to provide electrical engineering support for product development, performing engineering analysis, design, and verification to requirements.

This role is based out of the Round Lake, IL location.

• Work in a collaborative design team to develop new embedded devices that interact in complex infusion systems.
• Apply Electrical Engineering Principles 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, and detailed, accurate test reports.
• Support our manufacturing team as needed to resolve production yield issues and parts obsolescence issues.
• Guide other engineers on their designs, while also receiving guidance from more senior engineers.
• Perform root cause analysis on field returns as needed.

• BS degree in Electrical Engineering or a similar technical degree.
• 5+ years of experience in hardware design, preferably in the medical or a similarly 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 in 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.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

The salary range for this position is $112,000 to $154,000 and also includes an annual incentive bonus. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in the role, business line, and geographic office location.

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) and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP). Baxter also offers 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.

Baxter is an equal‑opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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