Associate Engineer - EV connectors

What You'll Do

Eaton announced, on June 11, 2026, the intent to combine its Mobility Group (including both the Vehicle and eMobility segments) with a new company. We expect to complete this process by the end of the first half of 2027. The compensation and benefits that will initially be offered for this position are based on Eaton's plans, programs and practices. If you are offered and accept this position and are actively employed by the Mobility Group when the transaction closes, the new company will provide further details to employees concerning compensation and benefits at that time.

You will be a part of a winning team where you will get exposure to engineer Connectors & Terminal solutions for Electric Vehicle applications. You'll need to understand and support the engineering efforts for connector product group in a matrix organization as an Associate Engineer in Connector division of Vehicle group

Job Responsibilities

• This role will contribute to design electrical connectors and terminals for electric vehicle applications.
• Ideal candidate shall have basic understanding of electronics and electrical fundamentation with strong acumen in mechanical product design with CAD skills.
• Derive requirements for the overall size, fastening, current rating, protection and mounting for electrical connectors and terminals
• Develop concepts meeting the requirements as clean sheet design and enhance from current design variants with in the product portfolio
• Work with Project Lead to support and aexecute the project activities to meet the project deliverables on time
• Compare competitor products through soft / hard benchmarking and improvise unique design concepts that is compact, lower in weight, faster heat dissipation and other differentiated technical attributes
• Perform basic calcuations of weight, load distribution, fastener loads, etc to support the design refinement of connectors and terminals
• Create drawings for concept evaluation and apply GD&T controls for part quality and acceptance of critical features. Link special characters to process capability
• Apply DFSS principles & tools (ex: B&P diagrams, Scorecard, DFMEA) to deliver a robust engineering design
• Release drawings to suppliers for prototypes and production through CO / CR in ENOVIA PLM system following the standard process routes
• Prepare design review documents and assist engineering leads & program managers for NPI execution.
  
  

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Mechanical / Mechatronics Engineering with 0-2 Yrs of experience in Electrical/ Automotive Industry in electromechanical system design & development in connectors design .

Skills

• Hands on experience high & Low voltage connector product design & development life cycle is required but not compulsory
• Need to have Go Beyond mindset to execute and deliver innovative solutions in EV Connector space,
• Good presentation, communication & leadership skills needed to drive the technical decision /conclusions
• Ability to operate with minimal supervision