Application Engineer, Automation

Job ID

486046

Posted since

25-Nov-2025

Organization

Digital Industries

Field of work

Sales

Company

Siemens Canada Limited

Experience level

Mid-level Professional

Job type

Full-time

Work mode

Hybrid (Remote/Office)

Employment type

Permanent

Location(s)

• Montreal - Quebec - Canada

Change the future with us.

We are looking for dedicated and talented people who tackle ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what's truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.

Why you'll love working for Siemens

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world's most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Canada's Greenest Employers 2025 and Canada's Top Employers for Young People 2025.

What will you do?

Siemens Digital Industries is seeking a motivated Application Engineer for Automation to join our Sales Acceleration team. As a valued member of the Sales Acceleration Team, the Application Engineer – Automation plays a pivotal role in driving automation sales success. Working closely with the field sales organization, you will accelerate the adoption of Siemens factory automation, industrial control and automation solutions by being assigned to high priority customers and providing both hands-on and remote technical support throughout the sales lifecycle.

An Application Engineer – Automation brings expertise in designing complex automation architectures involving multiple products and technologies, with specialized experience in factory automation and industrial control systems. This role blends deep technical knowledge with customer-facing collaboration, offering a dynamic and rewarding career path at the intersection of engineering and sales. The position will support customers nationally with a focus on central and western Canada.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Technical Expertise & Customer Support:

• Acts as the technical expert for factory automation, industrial control and instrumentation solutions for the Canadian market
• Focus on Factory Automation and Measurement Intelligence Solutions with customer facing and regional focus
• Understand end customer requirements and develop proof of concept System architecture and Recommended Parts list for end customers
• Provides technical product advice for the development and implementation of complex or unique customer solutions
• Serves as an escalation point for resolving complex technical challenges, providing on-site support when necessary to ensure customer satisfaction and system reliability
• Prepares and presents detailed technical proposals, including product demonstrations and solution prototypes
• Assists customers with commissioning machines, debugging complex automation and control systems and machine processes, testing and tuning technology functions, and optimizing machine performance
• Working closely with Siemens Sales Organization, exclusive Industrial Distributors and Siemens Solution Partners, to demonstrate technical features and benefits of Siemens Automation portfolio
• Must be able to size the Factory Automation applications based on application requirements
• Ability to understand and influence customers and system integrators on the utilization of SIMATIC products
• Understanding the value added and service offerings while partnering with customers to further understand their needs in order to provide them with a consultative technical solution
• Develop Sales Collateral such as value proposition demo programs
• Application Notes/White papers for Sales Organization
• Coordinating closely with the Product Marketing team on various Marketing activities such as Product launch Seminars, Application Presentations and Workshops
• Coordinates with team members to develop and implement effective technical knowledge transfer to customers, Siemens, and channel personnel
• Provides technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams by sharing expertise, guiding solution development, and fostering a culture of continuous learning
• Facilitates technical communication across departments to ensure seamless integration of solutions, accelerate project timelines, and enhance overall customer experience
• Technically represent and interface with Siemens HQ and Competence Centre on complex customer projects
• Stay well informed on industry changes while participating in professional organizations, where possible
• Continuous learning with growing technologies by engaging with marketing segments, application notes, FAQs to improve technical skills and knowledge
• Implements a yearly learning and development plan focusing on technical skills and engineering soft skills
• Drives the adoption and integration of advanced factory automation technologies to enhance customer competitiveness, accelerate time-to-market, and support Siemens' growth objectives in the Canadian automation market

What will you need to succeed?

• Bachelor's/Master's or Diploma of Engineering/Science in electrical/computer/mechanical engineering or computer science
• Must have a proven record of 3+ years of Industry experience on Factory Automation Products
• Strong knowledge of Industrial applications involving Factory Automation Products
• Hands-on experience in Industrial Automation Platforms, Industrial networks, Factory Automation and Instrumentation
• PLC Programming and/or Computer Programming Language experience (i.e. LAD, Structured Text, STL, C++, Javascript, Visual Basic, etc)
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills along with proven ability to provide technical training in French and English (bi-lingual)
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
• Must be willing to travel nationally on short notice
• Application experience in industries such as OEMs or System Integration

• Experience with:

• Controllers (PLCs)

• Industrial Networks
• Factory / Process Automation
• Machine Safety
• Proof of concept development

• Working experience with Siemens Automation products, SIMATIC PLCs and industrial automation platforms will be an added advantage

• Measurement Intelligence (MI) knowledge is a plus

• Action Oriented: Enjoys working hard and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging. Not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning and seizes more opportunity than others. Can rally the organization behind the right opportunities and initiatives

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

Siemens Canada is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. The company's purpose to is to create technology with purpose, transforming the everyday, for everyone, since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more liveable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, Siemens Canada had revenues of approx. $2.2 billion CAD. The company has approximately 4,400 employees from coast to coast and 37 office and production facilities across Canada.

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