Purpose
Drive safety, reliability, and risk management activities for Low Voltage Circuit Breakers and Power Distribution products throughout the product development lifecycle. Ensure compliance with applicable safety standards, improve product robustness, and support successful product launches.
Key Responsibilities
Safety Engineering
Lead product safety assessments and Offer Safety Regulation Reviews (OSRR).
Ensure compliance with IEC, UL, and functional safety standards.
Identify hazards, safety-critical functions, and risk mitigation actions.
Support safety architecture reviews and fault management strategies.
Reliability Engineering
Define reliability targets and reliability plans for new product development.
Conduct DFMEA, FTA, RBD, Physics of Failure, and Weibull analyses.
Develop accelerated life testing and reliability qualification strategies.
Analyze field, warranty, and test data to drive reliability improvements.
Risk Management
Facilitate DFMEA workshops and multidisciplinary risk reviews.
Drive closure of high-risk items and preventive actions.




Support risk-based decision making during design reviews.
Product Development Support
Participate in concept, architecture, design, validation, and prototype reviews.
Ensure safety and reliability requirements are translated into design specifications.
Support root cause analysis and reliability demonstration testing.
Circuit Breaker Domain Expertise
Solid understanding of:
MCCB, ACB, MCB, Residual Current Devices, Trip Units, Operating Mechanisms.
Arc extinction systems, contact systems, thermal and magnetic protection systems.
Risks related to contact wear, thermal performance, insulation coordination, electrical and mechanical endurance.
Next-generation and grease-free breaker development programs.
Reliability Testing Expertise
Experience defining and reviewing:
Electrical and Mechanical Endurance Testing
Temperature Rise Testing
HALT/HASS
Environmental Qualification Testing
EMC/EMI Evaluation
Reliability Q

📌 Senior Engineer I, Design for Safety (Bengaluru)
🏢 Schneider Electric
📍 Bengaluru