What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Design Engineer position at Eaton?
Eaton’s ES AMER NAS division is currently seeking a Systems Design Engineer. This is a home-based position and candidates must reside within 50 miles of the following locations to be considered for this position: Tukwila, WA; Hanover, MD; Austin, TX; Pleasanton, CA; Moon Township, PA; Arden, NC or Raleigh, NC.
What You’ll Do
Position Overview:
The Application Engineer (Systems Design Engineer) is a consultative, technical sales professional responsible for customers’ in-house design engineering staff for hyperscale accounts. An application design engineer must possess both strong technical and commercial skills and be experienced in electrical power distribution, power quality, control and rack level power.
This position is responsible for working with hyperscale principal design, product and reliability engineering teams to develop Eaton solutions for current and future data center distribution systems needs and medium voltage to rack level power. This position will also be responsible for providing technical product and application leadership for the global account team. They will engage closely with sales and hyperscale teams and ensure Eaton has cohesive strategy across all hyperscale accounts. They will represent hyperscale accounts during product line roadmap sessions, to ensure Eaton’s short- and long-term strategies position us for success.
In This Function You Will
Required (Basic) Qualifications:
Position Criteria:
Base salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
What You’ll Do
Position Overview:
The Application Engineer (Systems Design Engineer) is a consultative, technical sales professional responsible for customers’ in-house design engineering staff for hyperscale accounts. An application design engineer must possess both strong technical and commercial skills and be experienced in electrical power distribution, power quality, control and rack level power.
This position is responsible for working with hyperscale principal design, product and reliability engineering teams to develop Eaton solutions for current and future data center distribution systems needs and medium voltage to rack level power. This position will also be responsible for providing technical product and application leadership for the global account team. They will engage closely with sales and hyperscale teams and ensure Eaton has cohesive strategy across all hyperscale accounts. They will represent hyperscale accounts during product line roadmap sessions, to ensure Eaton’s short- and long-term strategies position us for success.
In This Function You Will
- Support design engineers at hyperscale accounts, aiding technical design and positioning Eaton-related products in a preferred position
- Act as the primary point of contact for technical and engineering support for the Eaton and pep sales teams
- Serve as a technical expert within the hyperscale accounts team, offering comprehensive support to account managers for Eaton's full portfolio
- Facilitate technical collaboration between hyperscale and Eaton’s product lines, supporting product innovation and design recommendations based on customer needs
- Represents hyperscale in discussions with Eaton’s data center architect team, providing insight and guidance to long-term roadmap and grid to chip development
Required (Basic) Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
- Minimum seven (7) years of electrical sales/marketing and/or engineering experience
- Possess a valid driver’s license
- No relocation is offered for this position. All candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of Tukwila, WA; Hanover, MD; Austin, TX; Pleasanton, CA; Moon Township, PA; Arden, NC or Raleigh, NC to be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution
- A Professional Engineer (PE) License
- LEED AP certification
- Extensive electrical experience
- Knowledge of Eaton electrical products, services and competitors
Position Criteria:
- Possess excellent communication skills
- Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
- Technical knowledge regarding the application of power distribution products including medium and low voltage switchgear, panelboards and switchboards, protective relaying and busway
- Experience in working with products and applications such as three-phase UPS systems, power distribution units, static transfer switches, remote power panels, power monitoring products (including metering and software), and power control products
- Strategic understanding of the U.S. power distribution and data center market
- Ability to write technical specifications for new projects in a manner that will put Eaton in an advantageous position when the project is bid
- Ability to interface with electrical consultant principals and lead electrical engineers, as well as facility engineers at data centers
- Problem solving skills
- Effective communication skills with the ability to interact at all levels of an organization, including consultant or end user organizations
- Presentation and training skills - Initiative and self-management skills
- Proven capability to find creative solutions to solve complex technical application problems
- Value selling experience
- Ability to travel up to 25% (closer to 35%)
Base salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Salary : $143,250 - $210,100