Senior Manager, Research & Development - Hardware at Baxter International in Bangalore

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. Your Role at Baxter Lead Baxter’s Electrical & Electronics Hardware Engineering organization in Bangalore, driving New Product Development (NPD), platform expansion, and sustaining engineering initiatives across the Patient Support Systems (PSS), Global Surgical Solutions (GSS), and Nurse Call portfolios. Build and develop a high-performing team of electrical and electronics engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous learning. Provide strategic and technical leadership for the design, development, verification, and lifecycle management of complex medical devices, connected healthcare systems, and communication platforms, ensuring delivery of safe, reliable, compliant, and scalable solutions that support business growth, product innovation, and customer needs. What You’ll Be Doing Provide technical leadership for the design and development of complex medical devices, connected healthcare systems, and communication platforms utilizing analog circuits, digital electronics, mixed-signal architectures, embedded hardware, power electronics, sensors and controls, and communication and networking technologies. Serve as the technical authority for hardware architecture, Electromagnetic Interference/Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMI/EMC) compliance, electrical safety, reliability engineering, design verification and validation, obsolescence management, and Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Serviceability (DFS). Drive execution of global product development programs, ensuring delivery of commitments related to quality, cost, schedule, performance, and regulatory compliance. Act as the primary hardware engineering leader for the CCS Bangalore R&D organization and a strategic partner to global R&D stakeholders across multiple development centers. Collaborate with engineering leadership and project teams across the United States, France, and Germany to drive alignment on product strategy, technology roadmaps, engineering standards, development methodologies, resource planning, and capability development. Lead global architecture reviews, design reviews, technical governance forums, and cross-site engineering initiatives to ensure technical excellence and consistency. Influence senior leadership decisions through technical guidance, risk assessments, innovation recommendations, and investment prioritization. Establish and strengthen Bangalore as a strategic center of excellence for electrical and electronics hardware engineering within the global CCS organization. Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain top engineering talent while leading performance management, succession planning, organizational capability development, and career growth initiatives. Develop future technical leaders, architects, and subject matter experts while fostering a highly engaged, innovative, and collaborative engineering culture across geographically distributed teams. Define and execute multi-year electrical and electronics technology roadmaps across CCS product portfolios. Drive standardization, platform architectures, design reuse, and engineering best practices to improve efficiency, scalability, and product quality. Champion innova