R&D Senior Power Electronics Engineer | Bengaluru, India

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. invites an experienced engineer to join our global R&D team to drive cost reduction across electrical, power electronic, and electromechanical assemblies.

You will identify high-cost drivers, analyze BOMs, and lead evaluations of alternative components while ensuring performance and compliance. The role requires 5+ years in power electronics, hands-on semiconductor experience (IGBT/MOSFET/SiC), and collaboration with engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Electronics Engineering, or related field.
• 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, with magnetics, capacitors, PCB assemblies, and thermal management.

Responsibilities

• Perform design-to-cost and value engineering studies with clear business cases for implementation.
• Analyze power converter architectures for cost optimization and simplify circuits, assemblies, and manufacturing processes.
• Review product bills of materials to identify high-cost drivers and assess alternative parts.
• Support redesign activities while maintaining performance, quality, reliability, and compliance.
• Coordinate with sourcing and supplier quality to identify alternative suppliers and localization opportunities.
• Define validation plans for cost-reduction changes and support prototype testing and qualification.

Skills

Cost optimization

Power electronics

BOM analysis

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Design-to-cost

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline

Tools

ERP systems

Power electronics components (IGBT, MOSFET, SiC)

Job description

Join our global R&D team developing next-generation power conversion and energy systems, and help improve product competitiveness by reducing product cost while maintaining performance, quality,

reliability, manufacturability, and compliance. You will work in a cross-functional environment alongside design engineering, supply chain, sourcing, manufacturing, industrialization, quality, and suppliers to drive sustainable cost optimization across the product lifecycle.

In this role, you will identify, evaluate, and implement cost reduction opportunities across electrical, power electronic, and electromechanical assemblies. You will analyze converter architectures and bills of materials to find high-cost drivers, lead technical evaluations of alternative components and technologies,

quantify savings potential, and build the business cases that turn opportunities into implemented change.

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.

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.