How to Apply to Siemens Spain

9 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 3 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • Apply at jobs.siemens.com filtered to Spain — the legacy Spanish-language careers landing page is currently 404 and the Avature marketplace is the only reliable entry point.
  • The ATS is Avature; Siemens Healthineers Spain runs on the same underlying Avature platform but as a separate marketplace at jobs.siemens-healthineers.com with its own recruiters and pipeline.
  • Tres Cantos (Madrid) is the HQ; significant additional hiring happens at Cornellà and Sant Cugat (Barcelona) and at Sevilla, with Mobility roles concentrated where the Renfe and Cercanías programs run.
  • Spanish is the working language for HQ commercial and customer-facing Mobility roles; English is required for any global product or R&D role, and German is a real advantage for Munich and Erlangen rotations.
  • Working time and many benefits are governed by the applicable convenio colectivo (typically 35-37.5 hours), and the Comité de Empresa with strong CCOO and UGT presence is part of normal operational life.
  • Internal pipelines — Programa Junior Talent, Siemens Apprentice / FP Dual, and university partnerships with UPM, UPC, and UPV — are the highest-yield routes for early-career candidates and should be prioritized over cold applications.
  • Strategic momentum in 2025-2026 is concentrated in Mobility (Renfe Avlo frame contract, Velaro D continuation, Cercanías refresh) and in the Industrial AI pivot of Digital Industries (Industrial Edge, Insights Hub) — tailoring your CV to either narrative materially improves recruiter response.

About Siemens Spain

Siemens Spain (Siemens S.A.) is the Spanish subsidiary of Siemens AG (Munich), headquartered in Madrid's Tres Cantos technology park with significant additional sites in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona), Sant Cugat del Vallès, and Sevilla. It employs roughly 3,500 people across the country and is organized into the same global business units as the parent: Smart Infrastructure (electrification, building technologies, low- and medium-voltage products), Digital Industries (factory automation, motion control, the Xcelerator software portfolio, and the Industrial Edge / Insights Hub platform that succeeded MindSphere), and Mobility, which is one of the most strategically important units for the Spanish operation. Siemens Mobility Spain is a long-standing supplier to Renfe and ADIF: it builds and maintains commuter trains for Cercanías Madrid and Cercanías Barcelona, runs signaling and ETCS projects on the high-speed network, and in 2024 secured a frame contract supporting Renfe's Avlo high-speed expansion, with Velaro D continuation work confirmed through 2025. Siemens Healthineers Spain — the medical-imaging and diagnostics business — is a legally and operationally separate subsidiary; it is listed and managed independently and does its own hiring through its own Avature-powered careers marketplace, even though the same global Avature platform is used. Day-to-day life inside Siemens Spain reflects both German engineering culture and Spanish labor reality. The working language at Tres Cantos commercial functions and in customer-facing Mobility roles is primarily Spanish, but English (and increasingly German) is required for any role that participates in global product, R&D, or rotational programs that touch Munich, Erlangen, or Nuremberg. Working time follows the applicable convenio colectivo (typically 35 to 37.5 hours per week, with intensive summer schedules in many sites) and the Comité de Empresa is active and visible, with strong CCOO and UGT representation on most committees. Siemens Spain runs an annual Programa Junior Talent and a structured Siemens Apprentice / FP Dual pathway, and it maintains formal internship pipelines with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). In the Spanish industrial-tech labor market it competes most directly with Schneider Electric Iberia, ABB Spain, and Indra for both seasoned engineers and graduate talent, and increasingly with hyperscalers and consultancies for software and data profiles working on Industrial AI.

Application Process

  1. 1
    Start at jobs

    Start at jobs.siemens.com (the global Avature-powered Careers Marketplace) and filter by Country = Spain or by city (Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla); the legacy /es/empresa/careers.html path is broken and redirects to a 404, so do not bookmark Spanish-language entry points.

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    Create a single Avature candidate profile

    Create a single Avature candidate profile — it is reused across every Siemens Spain requisition and across rotations to other Siemens AG entities, so invest the time to upload a clean CV, fill in language self-ratings, and complete the diversity and right-to-work questions accurately.

  3. 3
    Apply directly to specific job IDs rather than submitting a generic 'expression

    Apply directly to specific job IDs rather than submitting a generic 'expression of interest'; recruiters at Tres Cantos work from requisition shortlists and rarely mine the open talent pool unless your profile is already tagged to a hiring manager or program.

  4. 4
    If you are targeting the Programa Junior Talent or the Siemens Apprentice / FP D

    If you are targeting the Programa Junior Talent or the Siemens Apprentice / FP Dual route, watch the Spain-specific landing pages on siemens.com/es and the UPM, UPC, and UPV career portals each spring and autumn — these intakes have fixed annual windows and are not always surfaced as standalone Avature postings.

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    Expect an initial screening call in Spanish with a Talent Acquisition partner (t

    Expect an initial screening call in Spanish with a Talent Acquisition partner (typically 30 minutes, often via Microsoft Teams) covering motivation, language levels, salary expectations, notice period, and whether the convenio working-time arrangement is acceptable.

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    Plan for two to three technical or business rounds with the hiring manager and o

    Plan for two to three technical or business rounds with the hiring manager and one or two senior peers; for Mobility and Digital Industries roles these almost always include a domain case (signaling scenario, automation architecture, TIA Portal walk-through, or Industrial Edge use case) plus behavioral questions tied to the Siemens Leadership Principles.

  7. 7
    For roles linked to global product lines, anticipate at least one round in Engli

    For roles linked to global product lines, anticipate at least one round in English with a hiring manager based in Munich, Erlangen, or Nuremberg; some R&D positions add a short German-language conversation if the role is part of a rotation.

  8. 8
    Final-stage candidates receive a written offer that names the convenio colectivo

    Final-stage candidates receive a written offer that names the convenio colectivo, the working-time regime, the variable-pay scheme, and the benefits catalog (Ticket Restaurant, health insurance, pension contribution); review it carefully — Comité de Empresa rules mean some terms are not individually negotiable.

Resume Tips for Siemens Spain

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Submit a Spanish CV for HQ commercial, sales, and customer-facing Mobility roles

Submit a Spanish CV for HQ commercial, sales, and customer-facing Mobility roles, and an English CV for any role that names a global product line, R&D unit, or rotation — when in doubt, upload both PDFs to your Avature profile.

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State language levels using the CEFR scale (e

State language levels using the CEFR scale (e.g., Spanish C2, English C1, German B2) rather than informal labels; recruiters filter Avature on language fields and 'fluent' or 'professional' is harder to triage than B2 / C1.

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Spell out the specific Siemens technology stack you have used — TIA Portal, SIMA

Spell out the specific Siemens technology stack you have used — TIA Portal, SIMATIC S7-1500, SINUMERIK, SINAMICS, SICAM, Desigo CC, Industrial Edge, Insights Hub (formerly MindSphere), Mendix, Teamcenter, NX — because Avature keyword matching is product-name sensitive.

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For Mobility candidates, name the standards and systems you have worked with (ER

For Mobility candidates, name the standards and systems you have worked with (ERTMS / ETCS Levels 1-2, CBTC, Velaro, Vectron, Mireo, Desiro, RAMS / EN 50126, IRIS) and any direct experience with Renfe, ADIF, FGC, or Metro de Madrid.

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Quantify outcomes in euros, megawatts, kilometers of track, lines of code, or do

Quantify outcomes in euros, megawatts, kilometers of track, lines of code, or downtime reduction; vague 'led project' bullets get filtered out at the recruiter stage in favor of CVs with concrete numbers.

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List your university and degree using the Spanish naming convention (Grado en In

List your university and degree using the Spanish naming convention (Grado en Ingeniería Industrial, Máster en Ingeniería Eléctrica) and include the centre — UPM, UPC, UPV, Comillas ICAI, ETSEIB — because these signal directly to recruiters who hire from those pipelines.

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If you participated in the Siemens Apprentice / FP Dual program, the Programa Ju

If you participated in the Siemens Apprentice / FP Dual program, the Programa Junior Talent, or any Siemens internship, put it in the first third of the CV — internal alumni status carries weight and is one of the few signals that reliably surfaces a profile.

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Keep the CV to two pages maximum, save as PDF, name the file Name_Surname_CV_202

Keep the CV to two pages maximum, save as PDF, name the file Name_Surname_CV_2026.pdf, and avoid headshots and personal data (DNI, marital status) unless you are applying to a role that explicitly requests them — Spanish convention has shifted toward GDPR-clean, photo-free CVs for international roles.

ATS System: Avature

Siemens AG runs a single global Avature instance for its core businesses, exposed publicly as jobs.siemens.com (Careers Marketplace) and, for the separately managed medical-technology subsidiary, as jobs.siemens-healthineers.com. Both surface the same Avature CRM and ATS underneath, and both are driven by structured candidate profiles rather than uploaded CVs alone. Avature parses the CV on first upload, then asks you to confirm and complete fields (work history, education, languages, location preferences, work authorization), and those structured fields — not the free-text resume — are what recruiters search and filter on.

  • Treat the Avature profile as the primary application artifact: complete every structured field, especially languages (CEFR), location preferences, and work authorization for Spain and the EU.
  • Use exact Siemens product names (TIA Portal, SIMATIC, SINAMICS, Industrial Edge, Insights Hub, Desigo, Velaro, Mireo, Vectron, ETCS) so Avature's keyword indexer matches your profile to requisitions tagged with the same vocabulary.
  • Apply to one specific Spain requisition at a time rather than mass-applying; Avature ranks candidates per-requisition and excessive parallel applications can dilute your visibility to the Tres Cantos recruiting team.
  • Set a job alert with Country = Spain and your relevant business unit (Mobility, Digital Industries, Smart Infrastructure) — Avature emails new postings within 24 hours of publication.
  • If you are also targeting Siemens Healthineers Spain, register a separate profile at jobs.siemens-healthineers.com; although the underlying ATS is Avature, the requisitions, recruiters, and pipeline are managed by the Healthineers organization independently.
  • Keep your Avature profile current even between active job searches — Siemens recruiters routinely run Boolean searches across the existing candidate pool when a Spain-based requisition opens, particularly for Mobility and Industrial AI roles.

Interview Culture

Interviews at Siemens Spain are structured, polite, and deliberately paced — closer to the German engineering interview style than the fast-moving startup loops common in Madrid's tech scene.

The first conversation is almost always with a Talent Acquisition partner conducted in Spanish, focused on motivation, mobility, language levels, convenio acceptance, and salary expectations expressed as gross annual euros plus variable target. Technical rounds follow with the hiring manager and one or two senior peers, and they tend to be substance-first: expect to walk through a real automation architecture, explain a signaling scenario, defend a Mendix or Industrial Edge design, or whiteboard an electrical one-line for a Smart Infrastructure project. For Digital Industries software and Industrial AI roles you should be ready to discuss data pipelines on Insights Hub, MQTT and OPC UA in production, and the trade-offs between edge and cloud inference. Behavioral questions are anchored to the Siemens Leadership Principles (customer impact, innovation, ownership, collaboration) and a competent STAR-format answer is expected rather than optional. Global-product roles add at least one English-language round with a Munich, Erlangen, or Nuremberg counterpart, and some R&D positions include a brief German exchange if the role rotates to Germany. The Comité de Empresa is sometimes mentioned in conversations about working time and benefits — that is normal and not a warning sign. Decisions typically take two to four weeks; offers come in writing and reference the convenio colectivo explicitly.

What Siemens Spain Looks For

  • Demonstrated depth in a Siemens-relevant technology stack — TIA Portal, SINAMICS, SICAM, Desigo, Industrial Edge, Insights Hub, Teamcenter, or Mobility-side ERTMS/ETCS — backed by named projects and not just keyword listings.
  • Working Spanish at a professional level (C1+) for HQ commercial and customer-facing Mobility roles, plus genuine business English (B2-C1) for any global product or R&D role; German at B2+ is a real differentiator for rotation candidates.
  • Engineering rigor and documentation discipline — RAMS, EN 50126, IEC 61508, ISO 27001, IEC 62443 — that signals you can operate inside a regulated, safety- or quality-critical engineering culture.
  • A track record of cross-border collaboration with German, Austrian, or Czech Siemens entities, or with Spanish customers like Renfe, ADIF, Iberdrola, Endesa, Acciona, or Repsol that map directly to Siemens Spain's account portfolio.
  • Comfort with Spanish industrial-relations reality: convenio working time, Comité de Empresa cadences, and a hybrid model that still expects regular presence at Tres Cantos, Cornellà, Sant Cugat, or Sevilla.
  • Evidence of pulling Industrial AI and software-defined automation into traditional OT contexts — production data pipelines on Insights Hub, MLOps for predictive maintenance, edge inference, digital-twin workflows in NX or Teamcenter.
  • Alumni signals from the Siemens Apprentice / FP Dual program, the Programa Junior Talent, or a Siemens internship — internal pipelines are taken seriously and surface candidates faster than cold applications.
  • Behavioral alignment with the Siemens Leadership Principles, expressed concretely (customer outcomes, ownership of incidents, mentoring of junior engineers) rather than as buzzwords.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do I actually apply for Siemens Spain jobs?
At jobs.siemens.com, filtered by Country = Spain. The Spanish-language careers page at siemens.com/es/es/empresa/careers.html is currently broken and returns a 404, so go directly to the Avature-powered global Careers Marketplace and filter from there.
What ATS does Siemens Spain use?
Avature. Siemens AG runs a single global Avature instance exposed at jobs.siemens.com, and Spain hires through that same platform. Siemens Healthineers Spain — a separate subsidiary — also runs on Avature but at jobs.siemens-healthineers.com with its own requisitions and recruiters.
Is Siemens Healthineers Spain part of the same hiring process?
No. Siemens Healthineers is a separately listed and separately managed subsidiary. Both Siemens AG and Siemens Healthineers happen to use Avature, but you have to register a separate profile and apply at jobs.siemens-healthineers.com — the Tres Cantos Talent Acquisition team does not move candidates between the two pipelines.
Do I need to speak Spanish to work at Siemens Spain?
For HQ commercial roles at Tres Cantos and for customer-facing Mobility positions tied to Renfe, ADIF, or Cercanías, professional Spanish (C1 or higher) is effectively required. For global product, R&D, and rotation roles, English at B2-C1 is mandatory and German is a strong differentiator. Many Digital Industries software roles can be done in English-first.
What kind of working week and benefits should I expect?
Working time is set by the applicable convenio colectivo and typically lands between 35 and 37.5 hours per week, often with a reduced intensive schedule in summer. Standard benefits include Ticket Restaurant, private health insurance, pension contributions, and structured variable pay. Specific terms vary by site (Tres Cantos, Cornellà, Sant Cugat, Sevilla) and by business unit.
How active are the unions and Comité de Empresa?
Quite active. CCOO and UGT both have meaningful representation, the Comité de Empresa is consulted on working time, restructuring, and benefit changes, and you should expect references to convenio rules during the offer stage. This is normal, not a red flag, and is one of the reasons some terms are not individually negotiable.
What is the best entry point for a recent graduate?
The Programa Junior Talent and the Siemens Apprentice / FP Dual program are the structured early-career pipelines, opening on annual cycles. Internships through partnerships with UPM, UPC, UPV, Comillas ICAI, and ETSEIB are the next-best route. These pipelines convert to permanent offers at materially higher rates than cold applications to standard requisitions.
Which business units are hiring most actively in Spain right now?
As of 2025-2026, Mobility is in a strong hiring cycle off the back of the 2024 Renfe Avlo frame contract and continued Velaro D work, and Digital Industries is actively recruiting around the Industrial AI pivot — Industrial Edge, Insights Hub (formerly MindSphere), and Mendix. Smart Infrastructure hires steadily for grid and building-technology roles, particularly in Madrid and Barcelona.
Can I work remotely or fully from outside Madrid or Barcelona?
Most roles operate on a hybrid model that expects regular presence at Tres Cantos, Cornellà, Sant Cugat, or Sevilla — usually two to three days per week on-site. Fully remote roles exist but are the exception and are concentrated in software, data, and global product positions; Mobility and engineering-on-customer-site roles are necessarily location-bound.
Who does Siemens Spain compete with for the same talent?
Most directly with Schneider Electric Iberia, ABB Spain, and Indra for industrial, energy, and mobility profiles, and increasingly with hyperscalers and consultancies (Accenture, Capgemini, Microsoft, AWS) for software, data, and Industrial AI roles. Knowing the comparable offer landscape helps when discussing total compensation in the screening call.

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  2. Siemens Healthineers Careers (separate Avature marketplace) —
  3. Siemens Spain corporate site (siemens.com/es) —
  4. Siemens Mobility Spain — Renfe and ADIF programs —
  5. Siemens Digital Industries — Industrial Edge & Insights Hub —
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  7. Renfe — Avlo high-speed program (operator context) —
  8. CCOO Industria — Siemens sectoral representation —
  9. UGT FICA — industrial-sector convenio coverage —
  10. Siemens AG global brand & business-unit reference —