Senior Manager - Hardware Engineering

We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Manager to lead the hardware development of our Industrial Automation offers. This role is ideal for a senior technical leader with a strong background in electronics and mechanical system design, deep experience in safety-critical, standards-driven environments, and a proven track record of delivering industrial or automotive products from concept through customer release.

What will you do?

Key Responsibilities

Technical & Systems Leadership:

• Driving strong system engineering practices

• Guiding the teams in risk analysis, modelling, simulation and automation of design and verification

• Champion design for cost, safety, reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability.

• Drive knowledge reuse, standardization, common architectures, design principles, and reusable platforms to continuously improve standardized hardware development processes and time-to-market.

Product Development & Lifecycle Ownership:

• You will provide technical and people leadership across the full product development lifecycle from Concept and feasibility to Customer release and field support.

• Ensure compliance with industrial and/or automotive standards (e.g., functional safety, EMC, environmental, reliability).

• Lead development in safety-critical environments with strict regulatory oversight.

• Ensure strict compliance with relevant standards (e.g., IEC, ISO, UL, SIL, CE)

• Drive a strong culture of engineering rigor, quality, and documentation.

Innovation & Advanced Engineering

• Drive the application of AI, automation and data-driven methods across requirements, system design, schematics and layout, and verification testing to improve quality, safety, and speed-to-market in regulated industrial automation products.

People & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop multi-disciplinary hardware teams (electronics, mechanical, systems)

• Define and drive clear, measurable goals aligned with the Hardware CoE mission

• Foster strong collaboration with product management, firmware, software, safety, validation, manufacturing and supply chain teams.

• Foster a culture of engineering rigor, systems thinking, continuous improvement, and collaboration across globally distributed teams.

What qualifications will make you successful?

• Proven track record of driving end-to-end hardware product development, from concept and system architecture through customer release and field deployment
• Strong hands-on expertise in electronics engineering, including analog and digital design, power electronics, embedded hardware, EMC/EMI, signal integrity, and power integrity

• Good background in mechanical engineering, including thermal management, structural design, and design for manufacturability, assembly, and serviceability

• Deep understanding of electromechanical system integration for industrial environments

• Demonstrated strength in systems engineering, including requirements definition and traceability, system architecture, interface management, design tradeoffs, and risk analysis (FMEA, FMEDA, fault tree analysis)

• Extensive experience developing products in safety-critical and highly regulated environments, with strong working knowledge of relevant IEC, ISO, UL, CE, EMC, environmental, and reliability standards (functional safety experience is a plus)

• Practical experience with modelling, simulation, and verification methodologies, including use of structured or model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approaches

• Strong understanding of hardware verification and validation strategies, including reliability, stress, and compliance testing

• Experience or demonstrated leadership in applying AI and data-driven techniques across hardware development, including requirements analysis, design reviews, schematics/layout checks, test generation, and defect or anomaly detection

• Proven ability to drive automation of engineering workflows while ensuring explainability, auditability, and regulatory compliance

• Strong people-leadership skills, with a history of mentoring senior engineers, building technical capability, and developing future technical leaders

• Demonstrated ability to break down organizational silos and collaborate effectively across product lines, software, systems, safety, manufacturing, quality, and other CoEs

• Strategic systems thinker with strong engineering judgment, capable of balancing technical depth, business priorities, and execution rigor

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to lead through authority, expertise, and collaboration

• Passion for engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and safety-critical product integrity

Education Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline 15+ years of experience in hardware product development within industrial automation, automotive, aerospace, or other safety-critical regulated industries 5+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership or engineering management role, leading electronics and mechanical engineering teams

For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 168,800 - USD 253,200 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you'll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:

Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks (credits to apply towards your benefits), flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays per year, 20 days of paid time off per year (pro-rated in the first year of employment based on start date).

Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs: your base salary, short-term incentives or sales incentives, opportunities to own company shares (eligibility depends on start date), and 401(k) + match.

Grow Your Skills and Career. We commit to helping you grow with ongoing performance and development conversations, Senior Talent Program, global career opportunities, access to our Schneider Career Hub for new positions, projects, and mentors, and learning platforms like Coursera to equip you with the skills for today and tomorrow.

Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage teaming up through project opportunities on the Schneider Career Hub, smart ways to collaborate, celebrating contributions via a recognition program (including service anniversary), sharing your voice in our engagement survey, and fostering an inclusive, caring workplace.

Support Your Community. We make a difference in your community with volunteer leave, programs through the Schneider Electric Foundation, initiatives that support youth education, and military leave benefits.

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IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

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€40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries

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