R&D Senior Power Electronics Engineer

How You'll Make an Impact:
• Perform design-to-cost and value engineering studies, lead technical evaluations of alternative
components, materials, and technologies, and quantify savings potential with clear business cases
for implementation.
• Analyze power converter architectures for cost optimization opportunities and collaborate with
design teams to simplify circuits, assemblies, and manufacturing processes.
• Review product bills of materials to identify high-cost drivers, and conduct component derating and
qualification assessments for alternative parts.
• Support redesign activities while ensuring technical performance, quality, reliability, and compliance
requirements are maintained.
• Work closely with sourcing and supplier quality teams to identify alternative suppliers and
technologies, and support localization and dual-sourcing initiatives.

Participate in supplier technical reviews and cost workshops, and evaluate supplier proposals from
technical, reliability, and performance perspectives.
• Define validation plans for cost-reduction changes and support prototype testing and qualification
activities.
• Analyze risks associated with component substitutions and design modifications, and ensure
compliance with applicable standards and customer requirements.
• Coordinate with product development, manufacturing engineering, industrialization, supply chain,
procurement, quality, and service organizations, and provide technical recommendations to product
management and engineering leadership.
• Develop cost-out roadmaps for strategic product families, and establish cost benchmarking methods
and competitive product analysis.
• Contribute to design guidelines that improve product cost efficiency in future platforms.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures,
and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for
your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Electronics Engineering,
or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in power electronics product development, industrialization,
manufacturing engineering, or value engineering.
• Strong knowledge of AC/DC converters, DC/DC converters, inverters, energy storage systems, and
industrial power conversion systems.
• Hands-on experience with power semiconductors such as IGBT, MOSFET, and SiC devices,
together with magnetics, capacitors, PCB assemblies, and thermal management systems.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and product cost drivers.
• Experience conducting technical trade-off analyses between cost, reliability, and performance.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, a cost-conscious engineering mindset, and
the communication skills to influence engineering, sourcing, and supplier stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications
• Experience in value engineering or design-to-cost programs, including cost modeling and should-
cost analysis.
• Experience supporting supplier qualification and localization initiatives.
• Understanding of industrial and grid-connected power conversion applications.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering and component lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of product lifecycle management and ERP systems, and exposure to Lean, Six Sigma,
or continuous improvement methodologies.

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Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: Hitachi_Energy-JID3-218607

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-10-01T18:40:35