Principal Ethernet Engineer - Project Design Leader

Intro:
Schneider Automation, located in North Andover, Massachusetts, employs approximately 300 people in the engineering and design of industrial control products. Schneider products ensure efficient, reliable production and high product quality for millions of industrial, commercial, and consumer goods all around the world.
At our North Andover location, Schneider Automation's engineering and R&D teams are working today on ways to leverage Ethernet and web technologies to make manufacturing systems more efficient and user friendly, while Marketing develops the strategies and plans that will help our sales organizations in over 130 countries sell and compete on a global basis.
As part of €12 billion parent company Schneider Electric, based in Paris, France, Schneider Automation benefits from access to the resources of a global giant, while offering the environment of a typical New England based, technology-driven company. Job Responsibilities:
The successful candidate would join the AGP Ethernet Group as project design leader. The candidate will be expected to immediately contribute to the design and implementation of the firmware on our Low-Cost Ethernet development efforts, and to work to deploy reusable assets within the Company. The candidate is expected to perform a technical leadership and project coordination role within the team including project planning and tracking, staff assignments and project cost estimation. Requires direct dealing across organizational boundaries and partnering with other development teams within Schneider Electric to achieve project goals.Mandatory Requirements:
BSCS or technical discipline with a minimum of ten (10) years of related engineering experience. VxWorks, RTXC, ThreadX or other embedded RTOS; Unix or Linux and Microsoft Windows. C/C++, ARM and/or Motorola PPC assembly languages. HW and FW design; project planning and costing; demonstrated leadership of small cross-functional projects.
Experience in using or developing layer two and layer three networking protocols (such as PPP, NTP, BOOTP and DHCP). Ability to travel internationally approx. 1 week/qtr. Experience with a well defined software development process utilizing state of the art design, debug and defect tracking tools.
Desirable:Working knowledge SNMP, use of Rational Unified Process, ClearCase, ReqPro, ClearQuest; Upper layer industrial protocol experience (Modbus, CAN, CANOpen, Profinet, DeviceNet).
Schneider Electric Company is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability or veteran status.
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