R&D Associate Engineer

ABB Process Automation R&D Engineering Position

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This position reports to: Manager R&D Engineering

ABB's Process Automation business area enables customers to operate some of the world's largest and most complex industrial infrastructures, helping them outrun - leaner and cleaner. We offer a broad range of automation, electrification and digital solutions for process, hybrid and maritime industries, including industry-specific integrated control and software as well as measurement and analytics solutions and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical contribution: Working together with the R&D Project Manager and other R&D team members, you will perform research to consider technical solutions that will meet the defined requirements, perform proof-of-concepts, recommend specific technical solutions, provide effort estimates & schedule the specific work tasks, execute the development work as planned, and fully document all work activities.
• Embedded Firmware: You will add embedded firmware capabilities to communication, control, and IO modules, port existing firmware to new specialized hardware platforms, troubleshoot & resolve firmware bugs, and validate functionality by analysis & testing.
• Embedded Hardware: Working together with a dedicated hardware engineer, you will perform analog and digital circuit analysis, design, implementation, debugging and testing. This role involves the development & maintenance of high-reliability microprocessor-based measurement products, communication products, and controller/CPU products, for use in real-time Distributed Control Systems.
• Manufacturing Support: In this role, you will ensure all products are manufacturable, and you will assist the Industrial Engineering group to resolve manufacturing-related issues. You will also provide support for the development and maintenance of manufacturing test equipment and procedures.
• Processes and tools: Use the PCP Agile development process to plan and execute development projects employing Azure DevOps and the other standard development tools.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science Degree (or Master of Science Degree) in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering required. Minimum of 4 years of related experience, depending on degree. Understanding of embedded real-time platforms, and experience, training or knowledge developing and de-bugging real-time applications in embedded electronic environments. Experience, training, or knowledge of Field Programmable gate Array (FPGA) development tools and simulation tools using VHDL programming language. Experience with C and C++ programming languages, and experience using a software debugging environment. Knowledge of ABB's Harmony and Symphony Plus Control Systems and their configuration and operation is an added advantage. Up to 5% travel.

We empower you to take the lead, share bold ideas, and shape real outcomes. You'll grow through hands-on experience, mentorship, and learning that fits your goals. Here, your work doesn't just matter, it moves things forward.

What's in it for you We want you to bring your full self to work-your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You'll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

More About Us ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation).