Application Engineer Intern (Summer 2025)

Schneider Electric - Raleigh, NC

Full-time - Intern

Raleigh, NC

10,001+ employees

Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing

About the position

The Summer 2025 Application Development Engineer Intern at Schneider Electric will gain hands-on experience in the Energy Management sector while working within the Marketing & Product Management team. This role involves collaborating with the Power Products NAM Hub & Load Management Leader to support key initiatives and projects, providing technical expertise in PLC-based automation applications, and contributing to innovative solutions for both internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise and support to co-engineer PLC based automation applications in Schneider Electric or third-party environments.
• Participate in the creation and development of differentiated and innovative solutions to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Engineer and execute PLC application conversion using SE technologies to enable future repetitive business.
• Create and share application guides, function blocks, white papers, and success stories to enrich SE's application knowledge.
• Provide programming and technical development support for the Load Management group in their digital integration projects.
• Visit customers with the salesforce or participate in virtual meetings to understand their needs and validate solutions.
• Perform PLC programming and demo building to help customers visualize main solution concepts (proof of concept "POC").
• Develop required technical and commercial argumentation documents.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a technical education and/or engineering degree in Electrical/Electronics, Mechanical, Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
• Ability to learn competence in programming functions and libraries in PLC environments.
• Competence in creating visualizations/dashboards.
• Competence in networking to establish connections between a cloud platform and an embedded ethernet device.
• Strong communication skills with customers, local sales, and marketing teams.
• Customer focus, listening, and communication skills.
• Analytical skills to translate business requirements into integrated automation solutions.

Nice-to-haves

• Relevant experience with developing automation systems for machines or similar projects.

Benefits

• Exposure to real-life initiatives and projects within a Fortune 500 company.
• Resume boosting experience in the Energy Management sector.