This is where your work makes a difference.
At Baxter, we believe every personâregardless of who they are or where they are fromâdeserves 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 jobâyou will find purpose and pride.Â
Your Role at Baxter
At Baxter, we donât just build devicesâwe build lifeâsustaining solutions that patients and clinicians depend on every day. As a Senior Principal Electrical Engineer, youâll be a technical visionary and handsâon leader, driving the creation of nextâgeneration monitoring and sensing technologies within our medication delivery portfolio.
This role is for an engineer who thrives on solving complex problems, loves turning bold ideas into realâworld products, and is energized by seeing their work directly improve patient outcomes around the globe.
Your Impact
Youâll serve as a technical leader from concept through commercialization, shaping electrical architectures and designs that must perform flawlessly in safetyâcritical environments. Working at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, and software engineering, youâll influence not just how products are builtâbut how theyâre experienced, manufactured, and trusted.
What Youâll Do
Translate customer and user needs into clear electrical design requirements and hardware specifications
Architect and document robust electronic systems for embedded, microcontrollerâbased products
Lead the design of highâperformance analog and digital circuitry, balancing innovation with reliability
Analyze and simulate circuits to ensure performance across environmental, load, and timing stresses
Partner seamlessly with mechanical and software teams to deliver fully integrated system designs
Create, review, and approve schematics, specifications, drawings, and design documentation
Define and execute test strategies that prove designs meet performance, safety, and regulatory requirements
Guide PCB layout to achieve EMI/EMC compliance, manufacturability, and longâterm robustness
Support design transfer to manufacturing, ensuring scalable and repeatable production
Collaborate across engineering, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, supply chain, and marketing to resolve competing priorities
Apply data acquisition and analysis techniques to characterize and optimize design performance
Lead troubleshooting and rootâcause analysis for complex electrical challenges
Clearly communicate design intent, test plans, progress, and results to stakeholders at all levels
What You Bring
Bachelorâs degree in Electrical, Electronics, or a related engineering discipline
10+ years of experience developing electromechanical hardware, ideally in medical devices or other regulated industries
Deep expertise in embedded electronics, including analog and digital circuit design
Proven experience designing products to meet electromagnetic emissions and immunity standards
Strong proficiency with PCB schematic and layout tools (Altium Designer preferred)
Experience using data acquisition and test tools such as LabVIEW
A passion for mentoring, collaboration, and raising the technical bar for those around you
A mindset that blends engineering rigor with creative problemâsolving
Why Baxter
Here, your ideas wonât sit on a whiteboardâtheyâll become products that clinicians rely on and patients trust. Youâll work with talented, missionâdriven teams, tackle meaningful challenges, and leave a lasting impact on healthcare worldwide.
If youâre ready to engineer technology that truly matters, Baxter is ready for you.
Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which 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 as business needs change.
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 salary range of $128,000 to $176,000 and also includes an annual incentive bonus. The above range represents the expected 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. #LI-ASR2
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US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)
This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our employees. For additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits, please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits | Baxter
Equal Employment Opportunity
Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.
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