Lead Engineer - Arc Management and Simulation

Role overview

Lead Engineer - Arc Management and Simulation at Eaton Corporation

Lead the development and deployment of advanced Arc Management & Simulation (AMS) capabilities for electrical power distribution products by leveraging deep expertise in plasma physics, hands-on experimentation, and multiphysics simulation.

Responsibilities

• Drive the execution of arc management & simulation (AMS) technology roadmap through the development of niche simulation methodologies, enhancement of model maturity, and rigorous verification and validation using experimental and product test data.
• Deploy validated simulation capabilities across new and existing product-development programs to enable simulation-led design decisions, optimize product performance, improve reliability, and reduce physical testing, development cycle time, and overall engineering cost.
• The role contributes to strategic initiatives within the Global AMS CoE by advancing complex physical and numerical models, supporting AI/ML-enabled simulation workflows, fostering collaborations with universities and research institutions, and strengthening simulation excellence across electrical power distribution technologies.
• Additionally, the position provides technical leadership and mentorship to engineers while demonstrating strong customer focus, stakeholder engagement, and collaboration skills to successfully drive cross-functional projects, capability-building initiatives, and innovation programs across the AMS CoE.
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• Develop and drive the Arc Management & Simulation technology roadmap aligned with product and business priorities.
• Identify capability gaps and develop niche simulation methods for arc initiation, motion, cooling, interruption, dielectric recovery, contact erosion, gas flow, and plasma-material interaction.
• Lead plasma experimentation, diagnostics, and characterization to generate validation data for model verification.
• Build coupled multiphysics plasma models (MHD) incorporating fluid-flow, heat transfer, electromagnetics, radiation, and code coupling.
• Improve model maturity through verification, calibration, sensitivity studies, uncertainty assessment, test correlation, validation, documentation, standardization, and reuse.
• Apply state-of-the-art commercial and in-house tools and improve simulation workflows, automation, robustness, and computational efficiency.
• Deploy developed and validated capabilities on new and existing product-development projects and translate results into design recommendations and risk-reduction actions.
• Optimize arc chambers, flow paths, materials, contact systems, and operating parameters to improve product performance, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Demonstrate business impact by reducing physical test iterations, development time, and cost while improving simulation accuracy, first-pass yield, and design confidence.
• Collaborate with global product teams, laboratories, universities, and research institutes to accelerate capability development, validation, and technology transfer.
• Mentor young engineers, review technical work, establish modeling guidelines, and build organizational competency in arc physics and simulation."

Required qualifications

• PhD / Masters in Plasma Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, Computational Engineering, or a related field.
• 7-10 years of relevant industry or research experience in plasma physics, arc physics, experimentation, and modeling and simulation.
• Skills:
• Strong depth in plasma physics, switching arcs, transport phenomena, arc interruption, and plasma-material interaction.
• Hands-on experience in plasma/arc experimentation, diagnostics, test planning, and validation with test data.
• Experience in developing complex simulation capabilities with advanced software development skills (e.g. C/C++, Python/Perl, F90).
• Proven expertise in CFD, FEM, heat transfer, electromagnetics, radiation, MHD, and coupled multiphysics simulation.
• Proficiency in ANSYS, COMSOL, OpenFOAM, or equivalent simulation tools.
• Ability to develop, verify, calibrate, correlate, validate, document, standardize, and deploy complex numerical models.
• Experience applying simulation to new or existing product-development projects, optimizing designs, and reducing test iterations, time, and cost.
• Experience with circuit breakers, switchgear, or other electrical products is an added advantage."
• Technology-roadmap development and execution
• Technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring of young engineers
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Collaboration across global and cross-functional teams
• Accountability, learning agility, and customer focus"

Employment details

• Location: Pune [MH] [IN]