R&D Principal Engineer

About the Role

At ABB, we help important industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Every person here makes that happen. By rethinking, rewiring, and improving, we combine the world's best minds and technologies to elevate performance to a whole new level. Because at ABB, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world.

As a R&D Principal Engineer, you'll take on challenges that transform industries and drive innovation. We give you the market-leading expertise, technology, and opportunity, and you own the challenge to make an impact that matters. It won't always be easy. Growing takes grit. Innovating takes the courage to try, fail, learn, and succeed. But at ABB, you'll never run alone.

Reports to: R&D Local Unit Lead

Your Responsibilities

• Own the challenge and take on the journey
• Demonstrate technical knowledge in Software Design for embedded systems
• Provide advanced technical judgement, covering multiple disciplines that influences team activities and results
• Solve complex technical problems by creating own hypotheses and validating them
• Design and deliver mission-critical software systems for process automation or similar fields

What It Takes to Run What Runs the World

• Major in computer science, electronics engineering or related; master/doctor degree is a plus
• 10+ years of professional experience
• Familiar with all phases of product lifecycle, from inception to support
• Very good communication skills
• Able to speak and write confidently in English for international audiences, using clear, structured and precise arguments, able to adjust abstraction level to intended audience
• Architecture knowledge on medium/large scale system, with various embedded products distributed geographically
• Master communication technology and network cyber security, such as Ethernet based standards, network security, to support flexible future product integration into the system
• Able to design products and system with reliability and availability, such as redundancy solution design
• Knowledge of ABB DCS/PLC product is a plus
• Better to have experience with external standards and regulations, e.g. IEC 62443 and their application in internal processes
• Must be a team player

Why ABB?

• A global market leader redefining industries through technology and expertise
• Results that matter—what we run here, runs the world
• Autonomy & Ownership—we trust you to implement solutions
• Run What Runs the World—join a team that drives progress forward

Our Culture

At ABB, we care about our people and their stories. We create safe, fair, equitable and inclusive working environments in which our people can succeed and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or cultural, religious or social background. Diverse teams make us stronger. ABB is also committed to a high standard of integrity in everything we do.

We help our people succeed and develop, and we empower them to create their own careers at ABB. Our benefits, reward and development programs encompass a wide array of offerings.

How to Apply

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