Principal Embedded Software Engineer
Baxter InternationalBase Salary
$120k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop high-performance, robust embedded software for infusion pump devices.
- Contribute to modular, scalable, and maintainable software and device architecture.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers, product managers, and stakeholders on system requirements and integration.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide technical leadership.
- Conduct code reviews and implement testing strategies for software functionality and performance.
- Monitor embedded-systems development and verification trends to drive innovation.
- Create and maintain software design, process, and testing documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of embedded software development experience, including 2+ years writing high-reliability real-time embedded software in C/C++.
- Highly proficient in C++ with strong object-oriented programming knowledge.
- Experience with real-time operating systems and embedded Linux.
- Strong problem-solving, attention-to-detail, communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
- Experience managing technical projects and mentoring team members.
- Preferred: Python, Git, Jenkins, object-oriented analysis and design principles, embedded C/C++ debugging and optimization, and automated testing with GTest.
- Preferred: regulated-industry experience, ideally medical-device software and IEC 62304 experience.
- Excellent documentation skills.
Benefits
- Flexible workplace policy with a minimum of three days per week onsite.
- Medical and dental coverage starting on day one, plus life, accident, disability, and business travel accident insurance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan, 401(k) retirement plan with company matching, flexible spending accounts, and educational assistance.
- Paid holidays, 20–35 days of paid time off based on length of service, family and medical leave, and paid parental leave.
- Commuting benefits, employee discount program, employee assistance program, and childcare benefits.
About Baxter International
For nearly a century, we have delivered on our commitment to saving and sustaining the lives of patients, working alongside clinicians and providers around the world. We believe every person — regardless of who they are or where they are from — deserves a chance to live a healthy life, free from illness and full of possibility. At the intersection of progress and purpose is where we are redefining what it means to be a global medtech leader. It is where we are relentlessly pursuing healthcare transformation, fueled by our compassion for patients and providers and the challenges they face. It is where bold ideas meet the promise for meaningful change in the world around us. We are there, at every step of the journey, to help clinicians deliver the best care possible.