Role: Design to Cost Specialist - Electronics
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 - Electronics who will identify cost avoidance opportunities, analyze power electronics components, and guide engineering teams to optimize electronics hardware 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 (validation, quality, assembly) using DFMEA principles to assess risks in form and function.




- Evaluate semiconductor device characteristics and high-frequency magnetics to identify cost-effective and scalable design solutions.
- Conduct detailed analysis of converters, inverters, and PCB layouts to optimize power electronics product specifications.
- Lead teardown and benchmarking activities, studying competitor design philosophies to provide designers with optimized benchmark solutions.
- Develop and govern cost targets and glidepaths for current 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.
- Apply first principles thinking to every financial decision and facilitate trade-off decisions to optimize overall product cost.

Experience and Qualifications
- BE Electronics/Electrical/Mechatronics
- 6-7 years of experience in product companies (preferably from two-wheeler and electronics OEMs)

Must Have Competencies
- Technical maste

📌 Design to Cost Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 the Team and the Role
📍 Bengaluru