Lead R&D Engineer

About the team

The Role

What You'll Do

• Set technical direction through design and code reviews, best practices, and mentoring.
• Lead system design and architecture for OPA, SDA, and IIoT/edge solutions and build them hands-on across industrial connectivity, control, edge, and IT layers.
• Oversee lab architecture and infrastructure, including servers, control/edge devices, and CI/CD.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and standards and present findings to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years in engineering or R&D, turning emerging technologies into working solutions.
• Proven technical leadership in owning the architecture and delivery of complex solutions and mentoring engineers, and familiarity with Agile practices (Scrum/Kanban).
• Strong system design (microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, high availability, security by design) and DevOps (Docker, CI/CD, Git, IaC, Windows/Linux, virtualization, networking).
• Expert in Python or C# and comfortable with the other, writing clean, tested, maintainable code.
• Proficient in AI-assisted engineering, using AI tools across design, coding, testing, and documentation.
• Working knowledge of IIoT/edge technologies, including industrial protocols (OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus) and containerized workloads on resource-constrained devices.
• Standards and R&D: contributing to standards bodies (e.g., Open Group, Margo, OPC Foundation), patents or publications, and conformance and multi-vendor interoperability testing.
• Infrastructure and security: Active Directory, PKI/X.509 certificates, IEC 62443, monitoring (Redfish, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana), and orchestration (Barbara, K3s).
• Agentic and edge AI: building and deploying agents (agent SDKs, MCP, RAG) to automate engineering and business workflows, on-device inference, and LLM fine-tuning.
• Industrial hardware: controllers, I/O, gateways, and edge boards; embedded Linux and serial/RS-485.
• Virtualized and real-time control: containerized control runtimes, real-time Linux, and TSN.

Rewards designed for you

• Total Rewards is designed to help employees perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate their potential.
• The package helps employees care for themselves and their family, plan their future, grow skills and career, collaborate in an inclusive workplace, and contribute to their community.
• Country-specific programs and initiatives may be available.

About Schneider Electric

Application Notes

• You must submit an online application to be considered for any position.
• This position will be posted until filled.