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# Principal Staff, Embedded Software Design

- **Company:** Schneider Llp
- **Location:** Andover, MA, United States
- **Salary:** $168,800.0 - $253,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Centers, Embedded Software, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Hardware Design
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/60315059-principal-staff-embedded-software-design

## About the Role

* Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Power Electronics or equivalent expertise gained through significant industry experience.
 * Typically, 15+ years of electronics hardware development experience, with demonstrated technical leadership across complex products or platforms.
 * Deep expertise in analog/mixed-signal electronics, embedded control hardware, schematic design, component engineering, PCB design and laboratory validation.
 * Experience with high-power converters, UPS, energy systems, industrial drives or comparable high-reliability products.
 * Strong knowledge of EMC, product safety, reliability, derating, thermal design and design for manufacturing.
 * Ability to solve highly ambiguous technical problems and influence senior technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred: Cadence experience; IGBT or SiC gate-drive expertise; patents, publications or standards participation.

Bring your embedded software mastery to a team that's ready to innovate with you - apply today!

## Description

At Schneider Electric, we're advancing the technologies behind mission-critical power infrastructure. We're looking for a Principal Staff, Electronics Hardware Design Engineer to help shape the next generation of 3-phase UPS and DC power-conversion platforms used in data centers and other high-availability applications worldwide.

This is a high-impact individual contributor leadership role for an accomplished engineer who wants to remain close to the technology while influencing hardware strategy across global R&D teams. You'll tackle our most complex electronics challenges, guide critical architecture decisions, and turn emerging technologies into safe, reliable and manufacturable products.

What will you do?

 * Shape multi-generation electronics hardware strategy for 3-phase UPS and DC power-conversion platforms.
 * Serve as a technical authority for control, sensing, protection, gate-drive, communications and auxiliary-power electronics.
 * Lead architecture decisions, design reviews and trade-offs across performance, safety, reliability, EMC, thermal design, cost and lifecycle requirements.
 * Guide the full hardware lifecycle, from requirements and schematic design through PCB implementation, prototype bring-up, verification, industrialization and field support.
 * Drive engineering rigor through worst-case, tolerance and stress analysis, DFMEA, design verification and root-cause investigation.
 * Advance new technologies that improve efficiency, power density, reliability, serviceability and cost competitiveness.
 * Partner with global R&D teams, semiconductor and component suppliers, laboratories and universities to accelerate innovation.
 * Mentor experienced engineers and strengthen technical capability and design reuse across global teams., * Shape multi-generation electronics hardware strategy for 3-phase UPS and DC power-conversion platforms.
 * Serve as a technical authority for control, sensing, protection, gate-drive, communications and auxiliary-power electronics.
 * Lead architecture decisions, design reviews and trade-offs across performance, safety, reliability, EMC, thermal design, cost and lifecycle requirements.
 * Guide the full hardware lifecycle, from requirements and schematic design through PCB implementation, prototype bring-up, verification, industrialization and field support.
 * Drive engineering rigor through worst-case, tolerance and stress analysis, DFMEA, design verification and root-cause investigation.
 * Advance new technologies that improve efficiency, power density, reliability, serviceability and cost competitiveness.
 * Partner with global R&D teams, semiconductor and component suppliers, laboratories and universities to accelerate innovation.
 * Mentor experienced engineers and strengthen technical capability and design reuse across global teams.