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.
• Robust 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. Read more

📌 Lead Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Eaton
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