Product Application Engineer, Secure Power

Senior Product Application Engineer, Secure Power

Organization: Secure Power Business, Schneider Electric Hungary Location: Budapest, Hungary

Mission

The Secure Power Division of Schneider Electric manages the IT Channel and Data Center Segment with focus on Mission Critical Applications/End Users (focus on following industries: Government, Cloud & Service Providers, Financial Services). We deliver critical power & cooling solutions in & outside the Data Center but also management software tools.

The IT Channel Product Application Engineer serves as a trusted technical expert for Schneider Electric's Secure Power portfolio, supporting channel partners, distributors, system integrators, and customers in the design and implementation of reliable, scalable, and energy-efficient solutions. Working closely with sales teams and channel partners, this role provides pre-sales technical support, solution design expertise, and application guidance throughout the sales cycle. The Product Application Engineer translates customer requirements into optimized technical solutions, ensuring alignment with business needs, industry standards, and Schneider Electric best practices.

As a senior technical specialist, the role requires deep product knowledge, strong analytical capabilities, and the ability to solve complex technical challenges. The engineer contributes directly to business growth by enabling partners, supporting key opportunities, and delivering high-quality technical recommendations that drive customer success.

What You’ll Do

• Provide technical pre-sales support to channel partners, distributors, and customers across the Secure Power portfolio.

• Design and recommend integrated Secure Power solutions, including UPS, racks, power distribution, cooling, monitoring, and management software.

• Analyze customer business and technical requirements and translate them into effective solution architectures.

• Support product selection, sizing, configuration, and system design activities to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Conduct technical assessments and feasibility studies to validate proposed solutions.

• Collaborate with sales teams, channel partners, product specialists, and customers to develop tailored technical proposals and recommendations.

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for complex opportunities and strategic customer engagements.

• Deliver technical presentations, workshops, demonstrations, and training sessions to partners and internal stakeholders.

• Support the preparation of technical documentation, solution designs, bids, and customer-facing materials.

• Ensure proposed solutions comply with relevant standards, regulations, and Schneider Electric guidelines.

• Identify and resolve complex technical issues by leveraging product expertise and innovative problem-solving approaches.

• Support the introduction and adoption of new Secure Power technologies and solutions within the channel ecosystem.

• Share knowledge and provide guidance to colleagues and less experienced engineers when required.

• Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends, competitive technologies, and market developments to support customer and partner needs.

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What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, Data Center Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Proven experience in Product Application Engineering, Pre-Sales Engineering, Technical Consulting, Solution Design, or a similar customer-facing technical role.

• Strong knowledge of critical power and data center infrastructure solutions, including UPS systems, power distribution, racks, cooling, and monitoring platforms.

• Experience working with channel partners, distributors, resellers, or system integrators is preferred.

• Ability to understand customer business requirements and develop practical technical solutions.

• Strong presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, able to influence decision makers.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a matrix setting and work independently with minimal supervision.

• Precise and reliable in his/her work, tracking admin processes when needed

• Curious, open to continuous learning and innovation

• Fluent English and Hungarian; additional regional languages are considered an advantage.

What’s in It for You?

Schneider Electric believes in rewarding and recognizing employees who contribute to the success of the Company. We seek out and reward people for putting the customer first, being disruptive to the status quo, embracing different perspectives, continuously learning, and acting like owners.

• Competitive compensation package, according to industry standards including annual bonus, company car, cafeteria, life insurance, health care & pension fund contribution, Medicover package and a lot more.

• WESOP (World Employee Share Option Program), our unique program with the opportunity to become a shareholder in the company.

• Inclusive Environment: We build a culture of respect where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves. We are fully committed to inclusion, and our policies and culture reflect this commitment.

• Global Family Leave Package to support a healthy work-life balance.

• Exceptional career opportunities not only locally, but on an international scope as well.

• Continuous development and learning possibilities, personally and professionally.

• We work in a hybrid set-up to fit with your lifestyle

Let us learn about you! Apply today.

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• 150 000+ employees in 100+ countries

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