Role This role reports to the Innovation Experts Manager and operates in a global team. The team conists of other professionals each one with the following structure of skills and competencies:
* One (or more than one) major vertical expertise. In the team the person is identified as the matter expert
* Some other lighter expertises that can be extended and developed to become a matter expert
* A broad understanding of the fundamentals of cooling technologies and architectures for data center The team is globally responsible for:
* understanding technologies and market trends
* investigating innovative technologies and processes
* generating innovation ideas
* supporting the innovation roadmap creation
* developing innovation projects/challenges (H3, H2, H1) – (incubation – investigation – feasibility)
* providing domain expert level support to the organization on the following areas: o Thermodynamics & Refrigerants o Mechanical & Electrical units pre-design o Power and Digital (BSM, Controls, Software) o Simulations (CFDs, steady state, transient) o Cooling Technologies o Cooling Architectures (at system level)
* Ensuring collaboration, connection and alignment with other innovation efforts within the Cooling LoB, across SP and outside SP (Digital & Service Division)
* Providing deep expertise in the above domains to (but not only to) o Internal and external training o SE white papers technical writers o SE events (writing technical content or as a speaker) o SE Venture or executives asking for technical assesments o To other SE teams
* Collaborating with Offer Creation and R&D; in supporting roadmap development when needed




* Acting as a consultant on the specific domain whenever required This role is involved in all the activities above with a specific focus on Power (cooling units power architecture and power train for cooling) and nice to have on Digital (BMS, controls and software). Activities and Responsibilities Domains definition
* « Power » means the electrical subsytstems of cooling units and distribution architecture at data center level (from grid to chip) o AC and 800VDC Fundamentals o AC and 800VDC Regulations, compliances and safety o AC and 800 VDC Distribution and architectures
* « Digital » includes: o BMS architectures in general and on data centers o Controls logic and behaviour of thermal/cooling systems o Fundamentals of cooling unit software architectures o Fundamentals of power control logic o SE digital platforms and services offering o SE software offering related to cooling or connected to cooling This role has the following main responsibilities and activities:
* Being expert and updated on the state of the art on his/her vertical domain(s) at least on more than one topic of the above defined domains – 800 VDC is preferred
* Has a more than basic understanding for the remaining vertical domains (e.g. at least two on Digital and one on Power)
* Being aware of the cooling fundamentals for data center
* Knowledge of the current market trends on the Digital&Power; for data center
* Ensure broad knowledge sharing and support fruitful collaboration across and outside the teams
* Being autonomous, organized and proactive in planning and execution
* Understand,



evaluate and define technologies and market trends on cooling business with focus on Digital&Power;
* Drive the effort to translate approved innovation ideas on Digital&Power; domains in actionable innovation challenges
* Lead directly some innovation challenges and projects on the Digital&Power; domains, coordinate and monitor the others
* Animate the Innovation Community (Core and Extended Teams) on ideas generation through questions, interviews and unofficial networkin
* Join innovation/investigation projects lead by other team as cooling expert on Digital&Power; (e.g. Cooling Sequencer for Chillers)
* Keep alignment and consistency across Cooling, Power and Digital Innovation roadmaps
* Elaborate and prepare educational content on Digital&Power; for Cooling in data center applications (e.g. 800 V dc landscape and adoption)
* Aligment with the Control Platform Strategy Team with regular updates KPI: Defined by specific goals, yearly adjusted according to project evolution. Mandatory Requirements
* Degrees on Engineering (Electrical, Electronics, Control, Aerospace, Automation, Energy, Software or similar).
* 5 year of experiences on multinational companies active on Data Center market, in departments like: Innovation, R&D;, Laboratory (validation and testing). Data Center Cooling experiences is a plus
* We evaluate same skill set based on previous experience on industries and market such as: EV vehicles power architecture, charging station, BESS, photovoltaic
* Proven experience on one or more than one vertical domains defined as below: Power
* 800V DC fundamentals
* 800V DC regulations, compliance and safety
* Electrical subsytstems of a cooling units
* Distribution architecture at data center level (from grid to chip) both AC and 800

📌 Power and Digital Senior Engineer (Italia)
🏢 Schneider Electric
📍 Italia