Position: Customer application control engineer for VSD drives

Activity: Drives

Department: China Engineering and customer support department

Type of contract: Full-time permanent contract

Location: Shanghai China

The company

Schneider Electric leads the digital transformation of energy management and automation in residential, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries.

Present in over 100 countries, Schneider Electric is the undisputed leader in electrical management - medium voltage, low voltage and secure energy, and automation systems.

We provide integrated efficiency solutions that combine energy management, automation and software.

The ecosystem we have built allows us to collaborate on our open platform with a broad community of partners, integrators and developers to provide our customers with both real-time control and operational efficiencies.

At Schneider Electric, we believe that our people and partners make the difference. They allow us to engage ever further in innovation, diversity and sustainable development.

Thus, we respond every day to the needs of everyone, everywhere and at any time, to enrich life.

Reasons to join us

With our technologies, Life Is On everywhere, for everyone and every moment

If you want to evolve in your professional career, we reserve you a place in our group.

Schneider Electric is sensitive to what makes you what you are - your individual talent.

We are a dynamic and international company looking for passionate employees to help us innovate at all levels; we are the leaders of safe, reliable, efficient, sustainable and connected energy for all.

The Activity for which you’ll bring your expertise: Drives’ Activity

Drives’ Activity is the specialist and world leader in the provision of reliable, reliable and efficient solutions for the control of electrical energy to control electric motors. innovation, simplicity and operational excellence.

This activity sells 2 Million of products a year for a global sales amount of 800M€.

Drives Domain is mixing a lot of different technologies and associated challenges totally in line with the Schneider Electric Strategy like:

- Power Conversion and Motor Control enabling Energy Efficiency

- Application Control or Functional Safety enabling Solutions for the customers

- Ethernet, Web Servers and DTM enabling Digitization and Services

Key missions

· Responsible for the development of the solutions control algorithms to achieve the expected performance objective of the variable speed drive and of its applications, in particular: Centrifugal pumps, Compressors, Fans, Hoisting…

· Design the control functions of the application systems.

· Develop the control functions in the embedded software environment.

· Carry out test procedures for the new functionalities developed, using the various means available, from simulation tools to test benches available to laboratories.

· Deploy a development approach based on a model approach (“Model-based Design”), both for requirements capture activities, rapid prototyping activities and for hardware emulation activities.

· Integrate Motor Management features (application control algorithms) into exiting Motor Control.

· Support China customer onsite topics or China R&D tasks related with motor management applicative control, frequent travel to customer if necessary

Qualifications - External

Main skills needed

· At least one of the following degrees - required

o PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering

o Or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and 3 years of professional experience

· Master English and Chineese – optional French

· Experienced engineer in control design and physical modeling. It is a plus to have some

· expertise in one or several domains: mechanics, fluid mechanics, pumps, compressors – optional

· Knowledge about one (required) or serval (optional) technical domains: Automation - Command Control Laws, Electrical Engineering, mechanic of fluids, application modelling.

· Master engineering tools: MATLAB/SIMULINK

· Master programming language: C, MATLAB