Discipline Product Engineer (DPE) - Electrical Engineering

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED is seeking a Discipline Product Engineer to manage lifecycle, requirements, and roadmap for Electrical Engineering solutions. The role focuses on scale‑up, reuse, and cross‑product consistency across Shunt/Series applications, with emphasis on standardization and platform alignment.

The DPE will collaborate with Global Product Manager and specialists, drive automation, and ensure documentation, tools, and processes support scalable, reusable

Qualifications

• BE /MSc in Electrical Engineering or similar experience.
• 10+ years in Electrical Engineering, modularization or engineering products.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities.
• Experience with cross-functional teams and product management is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the lifecycle of Discipline Solutions and internal Electrical Engineering tools.
• Translate market and engineering needs into Product Requirement Specifications and drive the Electrical roadmap.
• Maintain documentation and ensure standardization for reuse across products.
• Promote automation to streamline processes and reduce engineering hours.
• Collaborate to modularize methods and develop scalable tools for reuse across projects.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Cross-functional work

Product management

Strong communication

Education

BE / MSc in Electrical Engineering

Tools

E3 Zuken

Siemens Teamcenter

Job description

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job ID: R0088237
Date Posted: 2026-06-03
Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
Profession (Job Category): Engineering & Science
Job Schedule: Full time
Remote: No

Job Description

The Opportunity We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Discipline Product Engineer (DPE) to join our Product Portfolio Management team. The DPE will play a crucial role in managing the lifecycle, requirements, configuration, and roadmap for the solutions in the Electrical Engineering discipline. The DPE role has a specific focus on scale‑up and reuse through cross‑product platform thinking and discipline‑wide consistency, complementing deep ownership within individual Electrical solutions.

• Oversee the lifecycle of Discipline Solutions and internal Electrical Engineering tools, ensuring version control, updates, and business continuity, with an emphasis on reuse and scalability across products and applications.
• Translating market and engineering needs into Product Requirement Specifications and drive the Electrical roadmap in coordination with the Global Product Manager and Global Product Specialist, ensuring alignment across products to enable reuse and avoid solution lock‑in.
• Maintaining and contribute to the development of Electrical Engineering Solutions and ensure documentation, including user guides and technical references, is current, accessible, and complete, with a focus on standardization of building blocks, tools, and processes for reuse.
• Promoting disruptive innovations including leveraging automation to streamline Electrical Engineering processes, reduce engineering hours, and enhance competitiveness, particularly in scale‑up and high‑volume scenarios.
• Collaborating with other experts to modularize methods and develop replicable tools that scale across projects, ensuring platform consistency and reuse between products such as Shunt and Series applications (Statcom, Series compensation).
• Monitoring Electrical Engineering performance in tenders, projects and coordinate feedback‑driven improvements across teams, identifying systemic patterns and opportunities that strengthen the shared base solutions.
• Aligning with other disciplines and units to maximize solutions and ensure cross‑product compatibility and governed deviations that feed learning back to the base.
• Tracking updates in design tools, engage with industry forums, and build networks to support discipline‑wide scale‑up readiness and reuse.
• Provide guidance in tenders and projects and ensure knowledge transfer across global teams, with focus on consistent application of the Electrical base solutions rather than local adaptations.
• Collaborating and coordinate with the technical area responsible and Subject matter experts to drive continuous improvement and adoption of reliable, product‑based solutions.
• Collaborating with product management to establish and sustain the product lifecycle management system (PLM).
• Responsible to ensure 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

• BE /M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or similar experience gained in other business.
• 10 plus years of experience in Electrical Engineering, modularization or engineering products, standardization, design tools (E3 Zuken or similar), PDM system (Siemens team center or similar).
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities.
• Experience working with diverse and cross‑functional teams.
• Proven experience in product management is highly desirable.
• Strategic, operational, and solution‑oriented mindset with a focus on business productivity and efficiency.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.

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Company Culture

Hitachi brings together the world’s greatest minds to help breathe life into new possibilities – and drive innovation for a better future. That’s why we look for individuals who share our pioneering spirit, have imaginative ideas and are fearless when it comes to tackling the world’s biggest challenges. Our people love technology – and they love making a difference. They have a passion for finding new solutions and working with brilliant colleagues. Every day they dedicate themselves to a huge range of exciting projects, contributing to the Hitachi vision around the globe. From engineering new sustainability solutions that conserve water and energy to creating the infrastructure for the smart cities of tomorrow, there’s no challenge too great for our pioneers. And there’s no shortage of opportunities for you to make a difference. Come and experience the dynamic, collaborative and creative environments where your ideas are welcome and new discoveries are waiting. To help you grow to your full potential, we strive to support our employees in their career aspirations and promote the freedom to explore new horizons.

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