Associate Software Engineer Co-op

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

As a Baxter R&D Co-op , you will contribute directly to our mission to empower clinicians and health systems with tools to make a difference in patients and clinicians' lives. It's ambitious work—and you're not on your own.

We are an innovation team within the Baxter FLC group charged with creating the next generation of medical devices and monitors. We are seeking co-ops to help us research and innovate product ideas based on improving care by saving and sustaining lives.

Your Team

You will be a part of the FLC Exam Diagnostics group, which supports both new product development projects and sustainment of currently marketed products. You will work with a cross functional team that consists of other engineering disciplines, operations, and quality assurance. We work together to develop, test, and launch products that improve patient care.

We encourage partnership, collaboration and prioritize building relationships with each other. Our teams support innovation and out-of-the-box thinking balanced with shared expertise and accountability.

What you'll be doing

• Support the project team by participating and assisting in the building and operation of prototypes with the goal of developing new futuristic products.
• Create and complete hardware builds and perform testing.
• Support testing and development of Biomedical test systems for product development
• Research and Test Technologies from many industries to support our future medical products in vital signs
• Follow company processes, while communicating and working on a team to meet project schedules.
• Participate in team meetings to drive innovation and overcome hurdles.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in progress (Electrical, Software Engineering , Biomedical or comparable technical subject area).
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with others multi-functionally
• Strategic problem solver; also execute with excellent attention to detail
• Organization & ability to progress on many different tasks in parallel
• Adaptability, open to change and continuously looks for ways to improve and simplify sophisticated work
• Ability to write code/scripts in Python (preferably), or any other programming languages, like Java, C#, etc.

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 pay rate of $26.00 - $28.00 an hour.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

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US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

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.