Technical Strategy Lead - EV Pursuits

What you'll do:

If you desire to be part of something special, to be part of a winning team, to be part of a fun team - winning is fun. We are looking forward tohire Engineer in Pune, India. In Eaton, making our work exciting, engaging, meaningful; ensuring safety, health, wellness; and being a model of inclusion & diversity are already embedded in who we are - it's in our values, part of our vision, and our clearly defined aspirational goals. This exciting role offers opportunity to:

• This role assumes responsibility for product conceptualization for the Electrification domain for Vehicle applications.
• It specifically focuses on providing leadership on conceptualizing the form, shape and function on the mechanical components, housing and electrical components of design intensiveness.
• This position deals with PDU / DC - DC Converter / Inverter / Battery Disconnect Units and On & off board chargers of AC & DC domains.
• The incumbent shall be agile & comprehend customer requirements and converts them into technical specifications to derive the design envelope in size, function & performance and generates concepts in tandem with multi-disclipnary team.
• He / She is responsible for pre-development, customer pursuits, technical proposal that meets & exceeds customer requirements and supports S&M team on promtional activities.
• Possess strong knowledge about the vehicle architectures of Battery Electric Vehicles, Hybrids and ICE based ones.
• Possess strong understanding of electrical & electronic components, circuits and basic requirements of electrical grounding, noise and interferences
• Knowledgeable about the materials for housings, sealing requirements and IP standards including validation methodologies
• Ability to generate requirements from the customer SOR regaring the enclosures, cooling, validation (functional & performance) and sustainability
• Size and select standard components (fuse, contactors, connectors, battery vents, interconnects) per application & customer specific requirements
• Develop solid understanding of the PCB assembly methods, vibration supports, thermal loads and methods to safeguard them.
• Lead solution discussion with customer's engineering to provide SOR compliance, technical concept and overall integration in Vehicle system

• Masters / Bachelors in Engineering (Mechanical / Mechatronics)
• 12 years of experience with multinational automotive Tier-1 in hands-on technology & product development

• E/E circuitry understanding, Selection of fuse, connector, contactor, current & voltage sensors, vehicle architectures (BEV & xEV).
• Application engineering, RFI / RFQ process know-how, demonstrated skills in technical solution development for highly engineered EV systems
• Interpersonal skills, high say-do ratio, sensible & assertive work style with international cross funcational & cross cultural teams.
• Support sales and marketing teams in promotion of EATON portfolio to EV applications, represent EATON in customer tech days
• Provide engineering inputs to cross functional teams during RFI / RFQ and pre-development pursuits phase and assist in cost estimation, finding alternatives to bought out components.
• Develop professional rapport with technical forums such as SAE / IEEE to stay on top of regulatory and safety trends.
• Develop understanding of current solutions, competing technologies employed by customers for high voltage safety critical operations