Principal Electrical Engineer

Baxter seeks a Principal Electrical Engineer to join our Care Communications business in Raleigh, NC. Baxter produces medical solutions to empower clinical communication and collaboration and promote patient safety and satisfaction in the acute care hospital environment. The Principal Electrical Engineer is an exciting role in supporting hardware design activities within our research and development team. Primary focus of the role will be to provide electrical engineering support for product development, responsible for performing engineering analysis, design, and verification to requirements. Work in a collaborative design team to develop new embedded devices which interact in complex communication systems. Apply Electrical Engineering principles to problem solving items such as electrical circuit design, component selection, product enhancements, and technical specification development. Ability to conceive, design, and build prototypes. Understand and conduct fundamental electrical design and testing activities on electrical components, PCBA’s, power supplies, wireless modules, batteries etc. Utilize standard problem-solving methodology to determine root cause and effective solutions to problems. Designs and coordinates research and test to validate, analyze and solve technical problems. Document designs and analyses per regulatory process, including hardware requirements, hardware detailed design, DFMEA, Risk Analysis, and verification requirements. Write Test Procedures/Protocols, conduct design reviews, design Verification & Validation plans, detailed and accurate test reports. Supports our Manufacturing team as needed to resolve Production yield issues, and parts obsolescence issues. Other engineers on their designs, and also receives guidance from more senior engineers. Performs Root Cause Analysis on field returns as needed.