Principal Software Systems Engineer

Principal Software Systems Engineer

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Baxter is redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our culture is driven by courage, trust, and collaboration. Join a team that empowers you to take ownership and make a meaningful impact.

• Driving Best Practices: Implement and champion best practices in software systems development and product life cycles, utilizing Agile PDLC/SDLC and Systems Engineering methodologies in collaboration with development and verification teams.
• Technical Leadership: Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a distributed R&D team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Complex Problem Solving: Develop innovative technical solutions to complex software system challenges, delivering high‑quality results within tight deadlines.
• Architectural Contributions: Assist in establishing robust system and software architectures for digital applications, ensuring alignment with established design inputs.
• User Needs Translation: Identify and capture user needs for digital applications, translating them into functional and non‑functional system requirements. Lead cross‑functional teams to ensure these needs are effectively integrated into system requirements.
• Documentation and Compliance: Write, maintain, and own system‑level and software‑level design inputs/requirements, ensuring compliance with established Quality Management Systems and regulatory frameworks. Work with established requirements and risk management SW tools, and develop subject matter expertise in these tools.
• Risk Management: Lead ISO 14971‑based risk analysis activities, from identifying inherent hazards to implementing effective mitigation strategies.
• Verification and Validation: Collaborate with verification engineers to define test strategies for system and software verification and validation plans, utilizing requirement tracing methods.
• Hands‑On Testing: Conduct ad‑hoc testing of in‑development and developed software systems to ensure ongoing product quality.
• Agile Execution: Enforce and support teams in executing Agile/Scrum planning, including estimating, scheduling, and completing committed tasks.
• Stakeholder
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Drive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to enhance processes, practices, and technical mentorship, transforming software requirements into effective test architectures.
• Design Transfer Process: Interface with manufacturing, field service, operations, and customer training staff throughout the design transfer process.
• Issue Resolution: Lead/assist in technical investigations for field issues and product complaints, with appropriate impact assessments on requirements and risks.
• Compliance Assurance: Uphold compliance with the product development process and quality system standards.

• ABachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline with 5+ years of experience, or aMaster’s degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Proven experience with regulated products and connected systems in the medical device/biotechnology industry preferred.
• Familiarity with electro‑mechanical devices is preferred.
• Expertise in requirements management, risk management, and development in an Agile environment, including experience in creating and maintaining product backlogs.
• Knowledge of implementing and enforcing medical device cybersecurity design paradigms is a plus.
• Experience with cloud‑based digital applications (e.g. SaaS/PaaS/IaaS environments with AWS/Azure or similar CSPs) is preferred.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
• Strong documentation skills and experience in a regulated industry.

The estimated base salary for this position is $112,000 to $154,000 annually. This range reflects an anticipated salary range for the position. The position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses. Individual pay is based on location, skills, expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. For questions about pay philosophy, please speak to the recruiter.

Benefits at Baxter include medical,…