Lead Engineer - System Engineering
Eaton · Pune
What you’ll do:
Lead Engineer – Systems Engineering
This role is responsible for leading systems engineering and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) activities for complex electrical systems with a primary focus on data center power and infrastructure architectures. The position develops system architectures, requirements, digital models, and engineering analyses that support the design, validation, and optimization of next-generation data center solutions. The role serves as a technical leader for system modeling, architecture trade studies, and cross-domain integration, ensuring traceability from stakeholder needs through design, verification, and operational performance.
Systems Engineering & Architecture
- Apply Systems Engineering and MBSE methodologies to complex data center electrical systems.
- Develop and manage requirements, functional, logical, and physical architectures.
- Define system interfaces, behaviors, operating modes, and V&V strategies.
- Develop CONOPS, operational scenarios, and maintain end-to-end requirements traceability.
- Conduct architecture assessments and trade-off studies to support technical decision-making.
Electrical System Analysis
- Perform power flow, voltage drop, power quality, short-circuit, protection coordination, fault, and transient studies.
- Evaluate utility interconnections and MV/LV power distribution systems.
Data Center Infrastructure Modeling
- Analyze end-to-end power architectures from utility service entrance to IT loads.
- Evaluate switchgear, transformers, UPS, PDUs, busways, and rack-level power distribution systems.
- Assess conventional, modular, distributed, and next-generation data center power architectures.
Trade-Off & Optimization Studies
- Conduct multi-attribute trade-space analyses for architecture selection.
- Evaluate solutions based on cost, efficiency, energy use, thermal performance, reliability, availability, resilience, scalability, maintainability, and footprint.
- Develop decision-support models and recommend optimal solutions.
Validation & Verification
- Validate system models using design data, test results, supplier inputs, and operational scenarios.
- Ensure model fidelity, credibility, and compliance with program objectives.
- Support verification planning and lifecycle validation activities.
Reliability & Resilience Engineering
- Assess system reliability, availability, maintainability, and resilience.
- Analyze redundancy architectures (N, N+1, 2N), single points of failure, and operational risks.
- Apply reliability block diagrams and availability modeling techniques.
Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
- Collaborate across electrical, controls, thermal, software, mechanical, reliability, and program teams.
- Act as the technical lead for data center system modeling and architecture initiatives.
- Drive systems engineering best practices, standards, and methodologies.
- Present complex technical findings and actionable recommendations to leadership, customers, and stakeholders.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's/ Master Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Power Engineering, or a related discipline.
Preferred
• Minimum 10+ years of relevant experience in systems engineering, electrical power systems, or data center infrastructure engineering.
Skills:
Systems Engineering & MBSE
- Extensive experience in system and subsystem-level systems engineering.
- Strong knowledge of the systems engineering lifecycle and MBSE practices.
- Expertise in requirements management, architecture development, interface management, and V&V planning.
- Experience with digital engineering, digital thread, and model-based development.
Data Center Electrical Systems
- Expertise in utility interconnection, grid interface, MV/LV distribution systems.
- Hands-on experience with switchgear, transformers, busways, PDUs, UPS systems, and rack-level power distribution.
- Strong understanding of data center architectures, KPIs, and power infrastructure design.
Power System Analysis
- Proficient in power flow, fault, short-circuit, protection coordination, and power quality studies.
- Experience in transient stability and disturbance analysis.
Multi-Domain Modeling & Simulation
- Experience in electrical, thermal, controls, reliability, and infrastructure system modeling.
- Skilled in dynamic simulations, digital twins, and integrated system analysis.
Reliability & Resilience Engineering
- Expertise in reliability modeling, availability analysis, MTBF concepts, and maintainability assessments.
- Experience with redundancy architectures (N, N+1, 2N), risk analysis, and single-point-of-failure evaluations.
Standards & Compliance
- Strong knowledge of ISO/IEC 15288, IEEE, IEC, UL, and data center industry standards.
- Familiar with electrical safety, compliance, and power quality requirements.
Engineering Tools
- MATLAB/Simulink, ETAP, SKM, PSCAD, Digital Twin, and Co-simulation platforms.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management, collaboration, and influencing skills.
Analytical & Communication Skills
- Strong systems thinking, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to leadership, customers, and cross-functional teams.