Senior Engineer II, Multi-technology Product Design
Schneider Electric · Posted Oct 23
Energy management, automation, software, and sustainability solutions
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About the role
Schneider Electric's process automation business develops industrial automation platforms and distributed control systems for continuous process industries. This role is a senior technical product management position focused on defining product strategy, roadmap priorities, and technology investments across software, firmware, hardware, systems, cybersecurity, networking, and cloud technologies. It works with customers, engineering teams, architects, and business leaders to shape and deliver complex industrial automation offerings.
What you will do
- Define product strategy, roadmap priorities, and technology investment recommendations.
- Engage directly with customers to understand problems, validate opportunities, and shape future offerings.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning software, firmware, hardware, systems, cybersecurity, networking, and cloud technologies.
- Build alignment across globally distributed teams and drive issues to resolution.
- Challenge requirements, estimates, architectures, and plans to improve outcomes.
- Develop business cases and investment recommendations based on customer value, strategic alignment, technical risk, and business impact.
- Partner with engineering leaders and architects to guide platform evolution and modernization.
- Present recommendations and product strategy to customers, senior leadership, and industry audiences.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Significant experience in process automation, distributed control systems, industrial software, embedded systems, instrumentation, or control engineering.
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Proven ability to influence technical and business decisions without direct authority.
- Strong understanding of software, firmware, hardware, networking, cybersecurity, and systems architecture concepts.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Takes ownership of difficult problems and drives them through resolution.
- Thinks like an investor, treating engineering capacity as a limited resource.
- Balances customer value, strategic importance, technical risk, and execution cost.
- Is comfortable respectfully challenging assumptions and recommendations at any organizational level.
- Earns credibility with software, firmware, hardware, systems, and cybersecurity teams.
- Can confidently engage with customers, engineers, architects, Directors, and Vice Presidents.
- Drives alignment quickly in ambiguous situations and across organizational boundaries.
- Looks for platform leverage and reusable solutions rather than one-off implementations.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Foxboro DCS, EcoStruxure Automation Expert, DeltaV, Honeywell Experion, ABB 800xA, Yokogawa CENTUM, Siemens PCS, or similar DCS platforms.
- Experience in continuous process industries such as oil and gas, refining, chemicals, power generation, mining, or pulp and paper.
- Background in instrumentation, process control, control strategy design, and plant operations.
- Software and/or firmware development experience.
- Experience delivering industrial hardware products.
- Experience as a Lead Engineer, System Architect, Technical Lead, Automation Consultant, or Technical Product Manager.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric is a global leader in digital automation and energy management, driving efficiency and sustainability for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure, and industries. Combining world-leading energy technologies, real-time automation, software, and services, the company helps customers turn operational ideas into a more resilient and sustainable future.
- Industry
- Energy Management
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1836
- Location
- Rueil-Malmaison, France
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Nathan Fast
Chief Financial Officer
Charise Le
Chief Human Resources Officer
Esther Finidori
Chief Sustainability Officer
Peter Weckesser
Chief Digital Officer
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