Embedded Software Lead, Diagnostic Cardiology (Hybrid/US Remote) @ BAXTER - Milwaukee, WI

This is where you save and sustain lives

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

This is where your work saves lives.

The research we do and the products we develop improve outcomes for patients around the world. Your work contributes directly to achieving that mission and making a significant impact on others. Its challenging work, but we help each other. Our teams collaborate multi-functionally and work together to achieve the best outcome for our patients and caregivers!

Our colleagues within our R&D organization desire to work on products that make a meaningful difference in others’ lives. We are motivated by the power of teamwork and are natural leaders who are skilled at influencing others.

As an Embedded Software Lead - Diagnostic Cardiology, you will serve as the software lead on critical architectures and projects. You will be responsible for driving development of products and providing creative solutions associated with the design and development for our new software product portfolio. You 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!

Your Team

Baxter’s suite of diagnostic cardiology solutions segment of the Front-Line Care business unit products is standard of care for improving diagnostic yield, workflow efficiency, and long-range patient outcomes. The products include intelligent and connected devices that apply advance sensing capabilities to generate differentiated insights across key heart conditions (e.g. Arrhythmia, MI, CHF).

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/services to provide concrete data on patients and devices. And finally, AI aided diagnosis and decision support capabilities improve diagnostic yields and efficiencies.

What you'll be doing

• Responsible for providing cross project technical guidance, and leadership within the teams to facilitate the completion and delivery of software,
• Apply and exemplify strong software engineering expertise to design and implement robust software architectures, while influencing the processes and methodologies used by the team to create quality software,
• Develop software components in a Linux environment, using design patterns, strong object-oriented principles, unit testing and automated testing tools that will be deployed in medical products
• Own and control the design of software architecture, ensuring that work done in those areas is designed in a modular fashion, testable, reusable, and maintainable.
• Participate in the formal documentation processes for requirements generation, software architecture, and detailed designs,
• Responsible for analyzing and understanding the product requirements and deriving the Software requirements.
• Identify key product level technical risks and assist project manager in developing mitigation and recovery plan.
• Provides guidance to test strategies at a product and module level.
• Guide development and test teams with respect to overall design and development.
• Leads and coaches the team members and play an active role in their development.
• Assess and identify actions to improve the competency (technical/product) of the team.
• 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 raising process and product quality gaps.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent is required.
• 15+ years of demonstrated experience in a software engineering role with experience in embedded software products and leading architectural design.
• 5+ years of experience developing software in a Linux environment
• Understanding of Yocto build systems, bash, BitBake, Python, Cyber Security concepts and methods, and medical device development is strongly preferred.
• Proven understanding of object-oriented designs applying design patterns, SOLID design principles, and test-driven development.
• Will be a self-starter possessing excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills who are customer centric, collaborative, and decisive.
• Excellent software architecture, design, and implementation skills.
• Expertise in development and maintenance of Software embedded/distributed 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, C++, and other languages used for embedded software development.
• Development and Continuous Integration: Visual Studio/Eclipse, SVN, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, BitBucket, Jira etc.
• OS: RTOS, Embedded Linux, VxWorks, etc.
• Experience in technically leading project teams involving SW architects and SW design engineers.
• Proven success in delivering results on technical challenges.
• Good understanding of Healthcare domain (regulations and standards) and Medical software development process.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all our employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. To that end, this position has a base salary range of $112,000 to $216,000 plus an annual incentive bonus and equity target. The above range represents the expected base salary range for this position. 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.

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The successful candidate for this job may be required to verify that he or she has been vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to reasonable accommodations for individuals with medical conditions or religious beliefs that prevent vaccination, and in accordance with applicable law.

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