R&D Engineer

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This position reports to

R&D Department Lead

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to ABB's success with technology, software, product, and system development. Each day, you will identify and implement innovative solutions to relevant problems. You will also showcase your expertise by providing ideas and by being able to work both independently and as a part of a Research & Development (R&D) team. The work model for the role is: #LI-Onsite This role is contributing to the Electrification business Smart Buildings division in Hyderabad, India. You will be mainly accountable for: • Collaborate with manufacturing to ensure a functional, producible design is developed. Demonstrate that performance and constructional requirements have been met. • Work with team to root cause performance failures and develop alternate designs to meet requirements. • Create models, assemblies, and documentation including bill of materials, drawings, and support documents. • Collaborate as a member of a project team to deliver products into production. Innovation: Contributes to research and development (R&D) projects with own, creative ideas. Proposes follow-up activities based on project results. • Contribute to team's advanced development/ innovation efforts to enhance product offerings. • Participate constructively in global teams, collaborating with the team in terms of design and execution ideas, development, and implementation. • Prepare and present design reviews to demonstrate understanding of specification and verification that it was met. Demonstrated ability to build relevant internal network to support ongoing activities.

Qualifications for the role

• B. Tech/M. S/ M. Tech or equivalent in Electrical / Mechanical engineering with 3+ years of hands-on experience in Electrical product design/development.
• Exposure to high volume manufacturing processes, sheet metal enclosure, molding, welding, assembly, strap, busbar and plastics design.
• Experience documenting products in a PLM environment
• Proficient in CAD Tools like Creo, Pro/ENGINEER etc. Translate requirements into designs using appropriate analysis and design tools. Execute statistical tolerance studies.
• Must have good documentation (Windchill experience preferred) and technical report writing skills.
• Exposure to UL standards (UL50, 67) - Panelboards and Enclosures & Experience structuring and documenting bill of materials in windchill
• Highly motivated self-driven Electrical/Mechanical engineer to work independently on R&D projects related to ELSB NEMA Enclosure product line.
• Must have good understanding of product development lifecycle and have hands-on expertise on product development activities including design, testing, analysis, root cause, qualification, and certification.

More about us

ABB Smart Buildings enables optimization of energy efficiency, safety, security and comfort for any building type, through new installations or retrofit solutions. The Division offers integrated digital technologies to control HVAC, lighting, shutters, and security, in addition to energy distribution solutions including DIN rail products, enclosures and emergency lighting through to industrial plugs and sockets and conventional wiring accessories, accommodating for single family homes, multiple dwellings, commercial buildings, infrastructure and industrial applications. The Division's highly innovative technologies and digital solutions serve rising global demand among real estate developers, owners, and investors for smart building technologies that optimize energy distribution and building automation. The scalable solutions aim to deliver significant sustainable and financial benefits, meeting social and environmental demands, while being able to address even the most complex of customers' carbon reduction strategies. We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory It has come to our attention that the name of ABB is being used for asking candidates to make payments for job opportunities (interviews, offers). Please be advised that ABB makes no such requests. All our open positions are made available on our career portal for all fitting the criteria to apply. ABB does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection to recruitment with ABB, even if is claimed that the money is refundable. ABB is not liable for such transactions. For current open positions you can visit our career website https://global.abb/group/en/careers and apply. Please refer to detailed recruitment fraud caution notice using the link https://global.abb/group/en/careers/how-to-apply/fraud-warning