As a research assistant Schmidt was working towards a PhD at Telecooperation Office (TecO), University of Karlsruhe (Germany) from 1998 to 2001.
Schmidt transferred to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany) in 2003, where he led the Emmy-Noether Research Group 'Embedded Interaction'.
He was appointed professor for applied computer science/media informatics at the University of Bonn and simultaneously served as department manager at the Fraunhofer Institute 'Institut für Intelligente Informations- und Analysesysteme (IAIS)'.
From January 2011 to August 2017, Schmidt directed the 'Human-Computer Interaction' research group[3][4] at the Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme at University of Stuttgart.
[6] In 2023, Schmidt received the recognition of being named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).