About the Role
You will join a global R&D / Innovation team across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, building the next generation of Open Process Automation (OPA) and software-defined automation (SDA) solutions. This hands-on technical lead role requires you to address technology gaps and critical customer needs while working across both IT and OT systems. You will be part of a team of automation and software engineering experts who are passionate about turning bold ideas into high-impact, real-world innovations.
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What You'll Do
- Set technical direction through design and code reviews, best practices, and mentoring.
- Lead system design and architecture for OPA, SDA, and IIoT/edge solutions, building them hands-on across industrial connectivity, control, edge, and IT layers.
- Oversee lab architecture and infrastructure, including servers, control/edge devices, and CI/CD.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and standards, and present findings to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years in engineering or R&D, with a proven track record of turning emerging technologies into working solutions.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in architecture and delivery of complex solutions, mentoring engineers, with familiarity in Agile practices (Scrum/Kanban).
- Strong system design skills (microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, high availability, security by design) and DevOps expertise (Docker, CI/CD, Git, IaC, Windows/Linux, virtualization, networking).
- Proficient in Python or C# and comfortable with the other; ability to write clean, tested, maintainable code.
- Experienced in AI-assisted engineering, utilizing AI tools across design, coding, testing, and documentation.
- Working knowledge of IIoT/edge technologies, including industrial protocols (OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus) and containerized workloads on resource-constrained devices.
- Engagement in Standards and R&D activities: contributing to standards bodies (e.g., Open Group, Margo, OPC Foundation), patents or publications, and conformance and multi-vendor interoperability testing.
- Familiar with Infrastructure and security standards: Active Directory, PKI/X.509 certificates, IEC 62443, monitoring (Redfish, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana), and orchestration (Barbara, K3s).
- Experience in Agentic and edge AI: building and deploying agents (agent SDKs, MCP, RAG) to automate engineering and business workflows, on-device inference, and LLM fine-tuning.
- Knowledgeable in Industrial hardware: controllers, I/O, gateways, edge boards; embedded Linux and serial/RS-485.
- Understanding of Virtualized and real-time control concepts: containerized control runtimes, real-time Linux, and TSN.
Rewards Designed for You
Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: We see you and we value you. It’s more than just pay and benefits—it represents a meaningful investment in you, helping you perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential. This package assists you in caring for yourself and your family, planning for your future, growing your skills and career, fostering collaboration in an inclusive workplace, and contributing to your community.
Our Culture and Values
We believe that our values and behaviors form the foundation for creating a culture that supports business success. Our IMPACT values—Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork—underscore our commitment to sustainability and inclusivity in the workplace. We celebrate IMPACT Makers—exceptional individuals turning sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization.
Company Overview
- €40 billion global revenue
- +9% organic growth
- 150,000+ employees in over 100 countries
Join us and become an IMPACT Maker!
