Customer-Facing Applications Engineer - Power Systems & Bids

IONATE; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Option Plan

Private Medical & Dental Insurance

Company pension

Career development budget

Flexible working schedules

Cycle to Work Scheme

Slow travel days

Job summary

IONATE is a deep technology scale-up building the technology backbone for smart electricity grids. We seek an Applications Engineer to lead customer-facing technical work from initial conversations through to benchmarking and project delivery.

This brand-new role positions you as the engineer customers turn to first as our Hybrid Intelligent Transformer moves from lab to utilities, renewables, industrial sites and data centres.

Qualifications

• A degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Solid track record in applications, sales/proposal or project engineering with power systems equipment.
• Strong grasp of power systems fundamentals: three-phase systems, transformers, voltage regulation, reactive power, harmonics, power quality.
• Hands-on experience contributing technical content to bids, tenders or proposals.
• Experience gathering and documenting customer requirements and coordinating across teams.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear value propositions for engineers and commercial decision-makers.
• Familiarity with grid codes and relevant standards.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites and industry events in the UK and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for customers, explaining HIT capabilities and integration.
• Support sales from first enquiry to contract; join meetings and site visits.
• Lead technical content of bids, tenders and RFx responses with specifications and diagrams.
• Capture and document customer requirements for engineering teams.
• Benchmark costs of transformers and alternatives to justify solutions.
• Carry out studies and calculations (voltage regulation, load flow, harmonic analysis).
• Coordinate handover from sales to delivery; support FAT/SAT and commissioning.
• Provide feedback to Product and R&D from customer insights.
• Create application notes, case studies and training materials.

Skills

Power systems

Power electronics

Bids & proposals

Customer requirements

Technical writing

CRM systems

Travel (UK & international)

Education

Electrical/Electronic Engineering degree

Tools

PSSE

DIgSILENT PowerFactory

ETAP

PSCAD

PLECS

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

IONATE is a deep technology scale-up building the technology backbone for smart electricity grids. We seek an Applications Engineer to lead customer-facing technical work from initial conversations through to benchmarking and project delivery.

This brand-new role positions you as the engineer customers turn to first as our Hybrid Intelligent Transformer moves from lab to utilities, renewables, industrial sites and data centres.