Principal Systems Engineer

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This is where your work makes a difference.

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.

As a Principal Systems Engineer at Baxter, your work contributes directly to making a significant impact on others. It’s exciting work—and you’ll be part of a collaborative, cross‑functional team that leads by influence.

R&D teams at Baxter develop, test, and launch products to improve patient care. A Principal Systems Engineer will be responsible for developing products and providing creative solutions associated with the design, development, and sustaining engineering for our new and existing product portfolio.

• Accountable for the entire product development process—from engaging with customers and marketing to composing and developing user needs, to the eventual product launch.
• Play a critical role in product development, ensuring the product meets all functional and performance requirements, and translating manufacturing and service requirements into product design.
• Lead the development and documentation of the product systems architecture and systems‑level design, including decomposing the system architecture and requirements into subsystem and interface specifications.
• Provide technical leadership to the development team to ensure that the project successfully meets cost, quality, and schedule targets throughout the product life cycle.
• Resolve competing constraints between interrelated functions (engineering, manufacturing, regulatory, marketing, etc.) required to deliver the product to market.
• Plan and carry out system integration tasks to reduce problems in systems verification and validation.
• Document traceability from requirements to verification activities, and from requirements to design entities.
• Resolve systems‑related technical issues by applying problem‑solving tools such as cause and effect diagrams, Pareto charts, etc.
• Act as lead integrator for the product, proactively monitoring integration issues during development tests and ensuring module/system development is successful.
• Adhere to the Baxter Quality Management system and support quality audits.

• Graduate or post‑graduate in Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical, or related engineering.
• 8+ years of relevant technical experience, including previous mentoring experience.
• A demonstrated track record in system development—covering requirements management, risk management, cybersecurity, usability, performance, and reliability.
• Experience with tools/practices such as QFD, Pugh Matrix, CTQ, DFR, DFX.
• Systems development experience in diagnostic cardiology medical devices or any other medical device is a definite plus.
• Agile product development experience preferred.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Firm decision maker with good influencing skills.
• Openness to collaborate in interest of the project/organization.
• Mentoring capabilities.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through a flexible workplace policy that includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in‑person in support of our mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal requirements. At its discretion, Baxter may decide to adjust, suspend, or discontinue it as business needs change.

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