Schneider was a Senior Advisor and Assistant General Counsel in the Office of Management and Budget and an associate at Wiley Rein.

From 2003 to 2011, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Detroit, where he prosecuted violent crime and public corruption cases.

[2][3] Beginning in 2012, Schneider has been an adjunct professor at Michigan State University Law School.

[8] In April 2020, U.S. Attorney General William Barr appointed Schneider to lead the effort to examine state and local emergency restrictions that had been imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Specifically he and his team were to identify where such restrictions unduly impinged upon "the constitutional rights and civil liberties of individual citizens.