Role: Design to Cost Specialist - Mechanical
Location: IBC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru
Reporting to: Lead - Product Costing & Budgeting
Team name: Costing & Budgeting – Team

About the Team and the Role
The Costing & Budgeting – Team at Ather is responsible for managing product costs, governing financial glidepaths, and ensuring cost efficiency through early design phase interventions and cross-functional collaboration.
This role is for a Design to Cost Specialist - Mechanical who will identify cost avoidance opportunities, execute benchmarking, and guide engineering teams to optimize product costs using a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach.

Responsibilities
Collaborate with Engineering at early design phases to identify cost avoidance opportunities and make business cases using a TCO approach.
Analyze product interfaces and manufacturing impacts (casting, machining, forging, etc.) using DFMEA principles to assess risks in form and function.
Select cost-effective, repeatable, and scalable manufacturing processes and conduct "Should Costing" to drive financial efficiency.




Lead teardown and benchmarking activities, studying competitor design philosophies to provide designers with optimized solutions.
Develop and govern cost targets and glidepaths for recent programs, ensuring alignment with gross margin goals across all cost drivers.
Integrate cost considerations into the product lifecycle by collaborating with Sourcing, Manufacturing, Product, and Finance teams.
Evaluate design alternatives and facilitate trade-off decisions to optimize costs while maintaining a Design to Cost mindset.
Control NPD program costs (Capex and Opex) by applying first principles thinking to every financial decision and activity.

Experience and Qualifications
BE Mechanical/Mechatronics
8-10 years of experience in product companies (preferably from two-wheeler OEMs)

Must Have Competencies
Deep expertise in assessing manufacturing processes including casting, machining, forging, and injecti

📌 Design to Cost Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Ather Energy
📍 Bengaluru