Job Description

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves 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 job—you will find purpose and pride.

Baxter’s Front Line Care business products expand Diagnosis & Therapies to better help patients and physicians to manage chronic or acute respiratory and cardiac diseases (COPD, CHF, etc.). The earlier the diagnosis & treatment for these patients – the better the quality of life. The $1.2B business portfolio includes products for Cardiology, Patient monitoring, airway clearance, ventilation and Intelligent diagnostics. The role of Senior Engineer is to make technical contribution in Systems & Electronics engineering activities by providing technical contribution within an area of expertise to contribute towards requirement, analysis, detailed design and verification activities for an assigned product, project or solution. The successful candidate will possess “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. This position is based out of Bangalore and reporting to the Associate Director Hardware & Systems Engineering of Front Line Care business.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

As a Principal Product Owner, Software Systems, this role will serve as the key orchestrator between multiple device development teams, commercial and portfolio stakeholders, and platform engineering. You will own the product vision and backlog for the platform, drive requirements using MBSE and systems thinking, ensure compliance‑ready architectural direction, and proactively manage technical and regulatory risks.

This is a strategic, high‑impact role requiring deep technical expertise, strong cross‑functional leadership, and a passion for building scalable digital and connected‑care capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

A. Product Leadership

a. Define and own the product vision and development strategy for the Digital Platform supporting multiple medical device categories and clinical workflows.

b. Translate business, clinical, and device‑specific needs into a cohesive platform roadmap aligned with portfolio strategy.

c. Drive platform evolution with a long‑term architectural view including compute layer strategy, connectivity, cybersecurity, interoperability, and data services.

B. Backlog Ownership & Agile Execution

a. Serve as Product Owner within an Agile/Scrum team, ensuring a prioritized, clear, and well‑groomed backlog.

b. Collaboratively develop feature definitions, user stories, acceptance criteria, and boundary conditions that enable scalable platform features.

c. Partner closely with engineering, UX/UI, architecture teams, and test organizations to ensure successful feature delivery.

d. Act as the customer proxy, managing stories for complex Software systems/modules ensuring delivery of quality & completeness with the scrum team

e. Ensures effective change management within the systems/modules

f. Is an integral part of the PI/Sprint planning process, prioritizes features & facilitates meeting the sprint objectives.

C. Stakeholder & Cross Functional Collaboration

a. Engage continuously with device R&D teams to extract platform needs across ECG, patient monitoring, respiratory therapy, ophthalmology, and BP monitoring domains.

b. Align with portfolio management, marketing, and commercial teams to understand business use cases, service scenarios, data workflows, and customer value propositions.

c. Facilitate cross‑team architecture discussions to ensure integration feasibility, requirements clarity, and platform reusability.

d. Inculcate a deep understanding of customer/therapy needs, usability & clinical workflows, UX design and use these to effectively make design/architecture decisions related to the Software system.

D. Technical Leadership & MBSE driven Systems Thinking

a. Apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies to define system behavior, interfaces, constraints, and verification approaches.

b. Lead structured system decomposition and requirements flow‑down across compute, connectivity, and application layers.

c. Support the creation of robust architecture models and platform definition artefacts, ensuring consistency across product lines.

d. Apply analytical skills to resolve complex issues by applying due diligence and structured problem solving techniques

E. Risk Management

a. Identify and manage technical risks across the platform lifecycle, including architecture, dependencies, cybersecurity, and interoperability risks.

b. Collaborate with Quality & Regulatory teams to ensure platform features and documentation support compliance (e.g., IEC 62304, ISO 13485, IEC 60601, cybersecurity standards).

Contribute to regulatory strategy for software components and digital services leveraging the platform.

Qualifications

· Experience in Requirement analysis, flow down, risk assessment, system thinking.

· Develop or refine user/product requirements and work with developers for their implementation and testing.

· Demonstrated experience with MBSE, system modeling tools (e.g., SysML, Cameo, Rhapsody), and structured requirements management.

· Hands-on experience in the system and medical risk management activities for our products and ensuring the safety of the product for patients and caregivers.

· Resolve systems-related technical issues by applying problem-solving tools such as cause and effect diagrams, 5 Whys, Pareto charts, etc.

· Ability to generate alternative solutions to problems or processes.

· Simulate therapy algorithms using modeling & simulation software like Matlab/Simulink. Ability to apply engineering concepts to electro-mechanical systems with software, their functionality, connectivity, and usability aspects.

· Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with others in a team environment

· Previous exposure with Medical Devices, FDA Regulations or other applicable regulatory requirements,

· Working knowledge of UL/IEC 60601-1, ISO13485, ISO14971, IEC81001-5-1. CE/UL certification is a plus.

· Demonstrated experience in accomplishing objectives. Able to deliver on multiple projects simultaneously

Self-motivated with good interpersonal skills

Education & Experience

· Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or related technical field.

· 10+ years of experience in software development, systems engineering, or technical product ownership within medical devices or regulated healthcare technology.

· Strong understanding of embedded systems, cloud/digital architectures, connectivity (BLE, Wi-Fi, cloud sync), and medical device software frameworks

Experience working with multi‑device product ecosystems or digital health platforms

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.

Reasonable Accommodations

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