Power Electronics Systems Specialist

What you'll do:

"This role is withn Eaton Research Labs. The succesful candidate has the principal goal of identifying, developing, and justifying commercialization of significant growth opportunities for diverse Eaton businesses in the area of power electronics, power converters, power systems, electric drives, electromagnetics, numerical modeling and controls.

The Engineering Specialist is expected to lead technology strategy and execution for specific applications. This includes acquiring resources, funding and establishing key partnerships both internally and externally to drive technological advancement. They will be responsible for meeting the schedule, scope, cost and technical targets for all research and development efforts under his/her control.

The Specialist Engineer should serve as a subject matter expert within the area of Power Conversion for Eaton. This includes developing and maintaining relationships with the external technical community and academia, active participation in industry or technical groups and events, publishing papers, etc. Finally as a subject matter expert internally the Specialist Engineer will be expected to mentor junior staff and consult with internal business & engineering customers"

"• Lead the design and development of next-generation Solid-State Circuit Breaker (SSCB) technologies, serving as Principal Investigator with the PDSS business (TRL5 by 2025)
• Provide strategic guidance to business and product roadmap by leveraging deep domain expertise and industry insight.
• Serve as a recognized company-wide expert in a key technology domain, providing insight on critical initiatives.
• Perform tech scouting for Eaton, conducting proactive technology landscape assessments to identify emerging trends and opportunities aligned with future business needs.
• Apply experience in the commercialization of early-stage technologies, including both successful launches and lessons learned from unsuccessful efforts.
• Facilitate open innovation initiatives in collaboration with universities and external research institutions that align with the Power Block strategy.