Hardware Engineer (m/f/d) Overhead Line Monitoring

A Snapshot of Your Day

Join us as a Hardware Engineer (m/f/d) Overhead Line Monitoring and take the lead in designing and developing innovative sensor systems! You will focus on vibration and optical sensors tailored for large-scale manufacturing environments. With your strong background in PCB design and component selection, you will create robust hardware solutions that meet demanding operational requirements. Imagine being part of a team that innovates from first principles while adhering to industry best practices and standards, ensuring that our sensors operate reliably even in the harshest conditions.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• You will design and develop sensor hardware from concept to production, emphasizing vibration and optical sensing technologies
• Create PCB layouts and schematics, ensuring optimal performance, manufacturability, and compliance with relevant standards
• Apply your automotive hardware engineering experience to develop robust, scalable sensors for industrial and manufacturing contexts
• Ensure designs meet stringent environmental, reliability, and safety standards required in automotive and large-scale manufacturing sectors
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams—including software, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers—to deliver integrated sensor solutions
• Drive innovation in sensor technology by researching and implementing new materials, methods, and technologies

What You Bring

• Proven experience in hardware design for vibration and optical sensors, ideally in large-scale manufacturing or automotive applications
• Strong proficiency in PCB design tools (e.g., Altium, Eagle, or similar) and hardware prototyping
• In-depth understanding of sensor physics, signal conditioning, and noise mitigation techniques
• Demonstrated ability to manage component obsolescence, supplier engagement, and lifecycle planning
• Experience with Power Energy industry and UAV standards is highly beneficial
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a collaborative approach to project delivery
• Proficient in English, with excellent spoken and written communication skills

About the Team

Our Grid Technology team enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• Opportunities to work with a global team
• Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
• Medical benefits
• Remote/Flexible work
• Time off/Paid holidays and parental leave
• Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform
• Access to a variety of employee resource groups

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