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At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.
Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.
Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.
Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.
Your Role at Baxter:
Baxter’s suite of diagnostic cardiology solutions Cardiology segment of the Front Line Care business unit products are standard of care for improving diagnostic yield, workflow efficiency, and long-range patient outcomes. The products include intelligent and connected devices that utilize advance sensing capabilities to generate differentiated insights across key heart conditions (e.g. Arrythmia, MI, CHF). Further, connected solutions through vendor neutral shared platforms (i.e. Epiphany) can streamline workflows, EMR integration and care pathways across the patient journey. Additionally, Clinical, and remote services augment and support clinician and staff processes and services to provide actionable data on patients and devices. And finally, AI aided diagnosis and decision support capabilities improve diagnostic yields and efficiencies.
The $130M business portfolio includes the ELI Resting ECG systems, Holter analysis and recorders, stress ECG diagnostics, spirometry diagnostics and data management systems that represent the standard of care for diagnostic cardiology
Position Overview
A Principal Engineer for software will be responsible for development of products and providing creative solutions associated with the design, development, and sustaining engineering for our new and existing software product portfolio. The successful candidate will possess solid “hands-on” technical abilities, an excitement and energy for product development, and a passion for their work and the impact it has on meeting the needs of patients.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Responsible for the architecture and design of a module/project, makes architecture and design choices for new product development, sustenance activities, field issue resolution etc.
Responsible for technically leading sustenance activities, field issue resolution working with the local and globally distributed teams and with hands on approach for solving issues
Reviews and approves the design and code of a module/project/defect fixes
Owns/leads technology strategy and roadmap for the product line
Demonstrates customer focus by ensuring quality of software releases and timely resolution of field reported issues
Responsible for analyzing and understanding the requirements.
Identifies key module/product level technical risks and assists project manager in developing mitigation and recovery plan
Review work products and ensure the quality of deliverables
Provides input to the test strategies at a product level
Provides guidance to development and test teams with respect to overall design and development.
Leads and coaches the team members.
Drives the application of principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and testing techniques.
Owns and drives continuous improvement activities by identifying and appropriately escalating process and product quality gaps.
Qualifications / Experience and/or Background
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science & Engineering discipline or equivalent is required.
10+ years’ experience in a software engineering role, preferably with experience in PC based applications / embedded software products.
Excellent software architecture, design and implementation skills
Expertise in development and maintenance of Software for PC Based/Embedded systems
Strong Object-Oriented development and design knowledge and experience
Deep understanding of technology & software development principles:
Analysis and Design: Object oriented architecture, Design Patterns
Programming: C++, Visual C++, C#, Visual C#, .NET, JAVA etc
Knowledge on SQL Data Base, Working knowledge on SQL Server Express
Development and Continuous Integration: Visual Studio/Eclipse, SVN, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, BitBucket, Jira etc.
OS: Windows, Linux, Embedded Linux/Embedded OS, RTOS
Experience in technically leading project teams involving SW architects and SW design engineers.
Demonstrated success in delivering results on technical challenges.
Good understanding of Healthcare domain (regulations and standards) and Medical software development process.
Personal Characteristics
Excellent communication, inter-personal and leadership skills
Firm decision maker and shall possess good influencing skills
Openness to collaborate in interest of project/organization.
Proactive and self-driven, possesses due sense of urgency
Shall possess systems mindset and good problem-solving abilities.
Working with multisite teams, Quality conscious and Process & customer Oriented
Coaching capabilities.
Reasonable Accommodations
Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please send an e-mail to
[email protected] and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.
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