R&D SW Engineer

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:

R&D Team Lead

Run What Runs the World

At ABB, we help important industries outrun - leaner and cleaner.

Every person here makes that happen. By rethinking, rewiring, and improving, we combine the world’s best minds and technologies to elevate performance to a whole new level.

Because at ABB, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a R&D Engineer, you’ll take on challenges that transform industries and drive innovation. We give you the market-leading expertise, technology, and opportunity, and you own the challenge to make an impact that matters.

It won’t always be easy. Growing takes grit. Innovating takes the courage to try, fail, learn, and succeed. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone.

Your Role: Own the Challenge/Take on the Journey

• Review requirements, create high quality design and implement efficient and effective solutions together with your multi-disciplinary team members
• Develop and maintenance industrial control products firmware/software used in next generation or existing DCS system.
• Analyze risks, solve problems, decompose bottlenecks and generate recommendations for optimization
• Work with cutting-edge technology and top experts to engineer solutions that shape the future.

What it takes to Run what runs the world

• Bachelor degree (BSc) / master degree (MSc) in a relevant technical education like computer science, control technology, or electronics engineering
• More than 3 years of C/C++ development experience on Linux/VxWorks platform, development background of large-scale C/C++ projects is preferred, familiar with new features of C++11 and above is better.
• Familiar with UML for modelling design and analysis, good to have use experience of architect tool, such as Enterprise Architect, PlantUml. Familiar with fieldbus protocol such as PROFINET, OPC UA, MODBUS, MODBUS-TCP, CAN, PROFIBUS, HART
• Understand Agile methodology and software engineering practices, such as version management, code review, unit test, continuous integration, static code analysis
• Good to have the development or deployment experience for DCS/PLC systems control
• Sufficient spoken and written English for daily work

Why ABB?

A global market leader redefining industries through technology and expertise.

• Results that matter—what we run here, runs the world.
• Autonomy & Ownership—we trust you to implement solutions.
• Run What Runs the World—join a team that drives progress forward.
• Apply by: [Closing Date, if applicable]

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We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe.