Principal, Electronics Hardware Design Architect

This position is within Center of Excellence (CoE) in CTO North America Organization and is responsible to provide Power Electronics Hardware expertise to wider organization.

The candidate will interact with multiple teams in different Business units and expertise teams with high level of expertise and knowledge in power systems and electrical distribution design.

He or she will lead and drive the innovation and technical work package within the organization regarding emerging applications such as Power Conversion Units (modules or equipment) for New Energy Landscape (DC applications such as battery charging, Datacenter, Prosumer/AC Microgrid, etc.) and solid state/hybrid circuit breakers from topology and devices to safety, and standards.

What will you do?

You will work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.

You will drive and manage the studies and investigations within the streams and projects with a global mandate.

He or she will be very active with external partners and will drive innovation with Labs and Consortiums.

The mission


* Include all activities where Power Electronics Hardware expertise is needed.


* Main focus is expected to be on new design and innovative applications.


* The candidate will:


* deliver elements of given design using established processes and best practices


* architect offers/subsystems from Technical Specifications to meet Customer Values expectations


* develop a strong expertise in Power Electronics Hardware, in order to reinforce our technical leadership.


* Lead within our organization and behave as a thought leader with good understanding of the customer processes, impacting business and customer.

Key Responsibilities


* Actively contributes to Technical Excellence.


* Influences the Technical Direction on Power Electronics Hardware in anticipation of offer creation and also influences bricks, platforms or methods across the organization


* Has an important impact on Schneider Electric business, offers and technologies.

Is a renowned professional within the company and a Business Unit


* Leads or contributes to system design, component selection, circuit design


* Employs simulation tools to model and analyze circuits for various performance criteria.

Supports testing/validation efforts as necessary.


* Works closely with cross-functional team of product owners, control/firmware engineers and electro-mechanical engineers to ensure overall system approach



* The candidate should
+ master the strategic technology domain (Power Electronics), actively develop and deploy related innovation and expertise to offers (research, platforming, standardization, trends, partnership, intellectual property, reference documents).
+ hold a deep knowledge of Customer processes and of our offers, to support technical interactions with end-customers and solving of offer issu...