Product Design Engineer

Your Job

You will own the full product design and development lifecycle for busbar power-distribution solutions — from concept through production release. Using mechanical, electrical, thermal, and manufacturing engineering principles you will deliver high-performance, compliant, and cost-competitive busbar products by partnering closely with customers, suppliers, manufacturing, and cross-functional teams

Our Team

You will be part of the PSBU, CCS busbar engineering group that designs power distribution products for industrial and data-center applications. The team works cross-functionally with sourcing, manufacturing sites, test labs, and customer engineering teams to take new products from NPI to production readiness.

What You Will Do

• Lead end-to-end design and development of rigid, laminated, flexible, and hybrid busbar solutions to meet electrical, mechanical, thermal, and reliability targets.
• Define and verify electrical/mechanical requirements and produce engineering calculations (current carrying capacity, temperature rise, voltage drop, creepage/clearance, insulation coordination).
• Select materials, finishes, plating, and insulation systems aligned to performance, manufacturability, cost, and standards.
• Drive Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and cost-optimization discussions with manufacturing and sourcing to ensure production readiness.
• Partner with manufacturing and suppliers to support prototype builds, tooling development, process validation, and scale-up activities.
• Apply GD&T and tolerance stack-up analysis to ensure robust, manufacturable designs and reduce assembly variation.
• Lead and participate in design reviews, DFMEA/design risk assessments, technical reviews, and cross-functional engineering decisions.
• Maintain EBOMs, CAD models, drawings, engineering specs, test plans, validation reports, and PLM (Teamcenter or equivalent) product structures to support controlled product release.
• Ensure product compliance with customer requirements and applicable UL, IEC, and internal engineering standards.
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of product design and development experience with electromechanical/power distribution products (busbars, sheet metal, connectors, or similar).
• Hands-on experience in busbar design for high current and high voltage power distribution applications.
• Knowledge of electrical fundamentals and the behavior of copper and aluminum conductors, insulation systems, plating/coatings, and common manufacturing processes.
• Experience with NPI processes, conducting DFMEA/design risk assessments, and working within a PLM environment (Teamcenter or equivalent).
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with data-center power distribution systems and power-shelf applications.
• Practical experience with FEA and thermal simulation, including setting boundary conditions and interpreting electrical/thermal performance reports.
• Strong applied knowledge of GD&T, tolerance stack-up analysis, and hands-on familiarity with manufacturing/process constraints.
• Prior experience interfacing directly with manufacturing sites, suppliers, and customers for prototype builds and production launches.
• Familiarity with UL, IEC, and other customer-driven regulatory or product standards
  
  

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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