Senior Engineer- Power Electronics Hardware

Eaton Corporation; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in Pune is seeking a senior Power Electronics Engineer to lead the design of HV/LV inverter and DC-DC converters for vehicle electrification. You will collaborate with global teams across R&D and ERL to define requirements, benchmark concepts, and develop high-performance, reliable power electronics solutions.

The role emphasizes advanced circuit design, hardware/firmware integration, and rigorous verification & validation, with a focus on energy efficiency, safety standards,

Qualifications

• BE/B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with 10+ years of experience or ME/M.Tech in Power Electronics with 6 to 8 years of experience / Ph.D in Power Electronics - hardware & control.

Responsibilities

• Optimize design for energy efficiency and performance using modeling or simulations; provide technical guidance to team members.
• Champion innovative High Power LV inverter/topology concepts, switching methods, and protection schemes.
• Lead project-level deliverables in high-speed communication circuits and control hardware.
• Develop products to meet performance, safety, reliability and cost requirements.
• Write and maintain product specifications and functional specs for designs.
• Develop engineering tools and continuously improve operational efficiency.
• Generate a pipeline of high-quality ideas that outperform competition on performance, packaging, reliability and cost.

Skills

Power electronics design

HV/LV inverter, DC-DC converters

Analog & digital circuit design

Microcontroller-based designs (16/32//

CAN/LIN/RS232/SPI/I2C

MATLAB/Simulink

PSpice/LTSpice/Simetrix/PSIM/SABER

Hybrid/Vehicle electrification

Reliability & safety (ISO 26262)

DFSS / FMEA / FMECA

Education

BE/B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

ME/M.Tech in Power Electronics

Ph.D in Power Electronics - hardware & control

Tools

PSpice

LTSpice

Simetrix

PSIM/SABER

Job description

What you’ll do:

Eaton announced, on June 11, 2026, the intent to combine its Mobility Group (including both the Vehicle and eMobility segments) with a new company. We expect to complete this process by the end of the first half of 2027. The compensation and benefits that will initially be offered for this position are based on Eaton's plans, programs and practices. If you are offered and accept this position and are actively employed by the Mobility Group when the transaction closes, the new company will provide further details to employees concerning compensation and benefits at that time.

This position is responsible for developing new technologies in the field of Vehicle Electrification for Eaton’s Mobility business group. As a member of this new technology development/ R&D team, you will lead power electronics architecture/design of Inverter (HV DC-AC) and HV/LV DCDC converters. This involves working with research and development teams across multiple regions (U.S., Europe and Asia) and divisions within Mobility Group, Global Innovation Centers, and Eaton Research Labs (ERL). Incumbent will be responsible for demonstrating Proof of concept design starting from establishing requirements through Secondary research/ benchmarking/ customer inputs, conceptualizing unique/ differentiated solutions that outperform competitor products in performance, cost and reliability and carry out verification and validation(V&V).

• Optimize design for energy efficiency and various performance strategies using physical modeling or simulation tools and providing technical expertise and guidance to team members and mentoring new engineers.
• Champions innovative solutions for High power LV inverter/DC-DC Converter topologies, Switching methods and control, HV/LV gate driver, isolated and isolated design and HV/LV protection; Filters and magnetics design and solid-state device selection.
• Leads project level deliverables in High-Speed Communication Circuits, and Digital and Analog Controls, I/O Interface Circuits and Control Hardware.
• Develop products to comply performance, functional safety, reliability and cost requirements.
• Writes and maintains product specifications and functional specifications of design solutions for product to meet performance, functional safety and reliability.
• Develop engineering tools and continuously improves operational efficiency.
• Generate a pipeline of high quality ideas/ solutions within a short time frame that outperforms the competition on performance, packaging, reliability and cost.

Qualifications:

B.E/B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with 10+ years of experience or M.E/M.Tech in Power Electronics with 6 to 8 years of experience / Ph.D in Power Electronics - hardware & control

Skills:

• Proven track record in engineering research / analysis / product design in HV/LV DC-AC inverter, DC-DC Converter Power electronics
• Required experience in new product/ technology development projects and in the field of power electronics
• Experience in hardware system design including end to end product development involving analog & digital circuit design with 16/32 /64 bit microcontroller based designs, development, verification & validation, qualification & certification testing, launch support
• Exposure / Hands on experience on Digital Communication protocols like CAN, LIN, RS232, SPI, I2C etc
• Experience in following tools - MATLAB/Simulink, PSpice/ LT Spice/ Simetrix, PSIM/SABER
• Experience in Hybrid/ Vehicle electrification
• Preferred / Additional specialized knowledge
• Experience in pulsed power, capacitor chargers, electromagnetics, microelectronics, and thermal design
• Experience in Analyzing and simulating power electronics systems including, analog, logical, and digital electronics. Leverages use of Hardware in the Loop simulation systems
• Experience in Validation, Verification and Certification of Auto domain
• Knowledge of Reliability for Embedded system Design
• Understanding of DFSS tools like FMEA, FMECA, Monte Carlo Analysis etc
• Experience in ISO 26262 functional safety processes
• Knowledge of quality standards and certifications (IATF 16949, ISO9001, ISO14001)
• Good communication and presentation skills - both verbal and written
• Innovation Management - Ability to conceive unique ideas
• Collaborative working style & Learning agility
• Excellent stakeholder management skills - global/ local and various sub-functions (sales, PSM, SCM, Manufacturing, engineering)
• Skilled at conflict management, dealing with ambiguity and change management