The opportunity
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.
