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The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 a year.\nPlease note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.\nWhat you’ll do:\nEaton’s Mobility Group division is currently seeking a Lead Application Engineer - New Spaces. This role is based at our Southfield, MI facility and offers a hybrid working schedule.\nEaton's New Spaces team develops power connection solutions for emerging high-growth markets including AI data centers, electrification infrastructure, energy storage, and industrial power applications. Working closely with key customers and internal design engineering teams, the Lead Product Sales Engineer helps define next-generation power distribution architectures through innovative connector, contact system, and busbar solutions\nYou will report to the Global Product Line Director and will be responsible for providing technical leadership of Power Connections products and solutions for New Spaces. You will work together with entire Power Connections sales, strategy, and engineering teams to drive maximum penetration of Power Connections products.serve as the primary technical liaison between customer engineering organizations and Eaton Power Connections engineering, product management, manufacturing, quality, and commercial teams for New Spaces applications, including AI data centers, energy storage, electrification infrastructure, and industrial power systems.\nLead customer-facing engineering activities from concept development through product launch, ensuring customer requirements are translated into robust, manufacturable, and cost-effective connector, contact system, and busbar solutions.\nAnalyze customer specifications, electrical architectures, standards, and application requirements to develop optimized technical solutions for high-current and high-voltage power distribution systems.\nCollaborate with customer engineers and Eaton product development teams to define requirements, evaluate design concepts, support design reviews, and guide product validation and qualification activities.\nSupport customer integration activities by providing technical guidance related to installation, performance, qualification, and application of Eaton power connection solutions.\nLead technical investigations and support customer issue resolution through root cause analysis, corrective actions, testing, and validation activities.\nSupport technical aspects of customer pursuits, RFQs, and design-in opportunities by evaluating requirements, assessing feasibility, and developing application-specific solutions.\nCoordinate cross-functional engineering activities to support product releases, engineering changes, technical documentation, and successful customer launches.\nMonitor emerging data center, power distribution, electrification, and connectivity technologies to identify customer needs, application trends, and future growth opportunities.\nProvide technical market insights, customer feedback, and application learnings to support product improvements, technology development, and roadmap planning.\nTravel to customer locations, technical reviews, validation events, and industry conferences to support customer engagement and business growth.\nQualifications:\nRequired (Basic) Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution.\nMinimum five (5) years of engineering experience in electrical systems, power distribution, application engineering, product engineering, systems engineering, or related technical disciplines.\nMinimum three (3) years of experience in customer-facing engineering roles, including application engineering, product engineering, systems engineering, resident engineering, sales engineering, or similar technical positions.\nProven experience working directly with customers throughout product development, validation, qualification, or launch activities.\nStrong ability to communicate technical concepts and recommendations to engineering, commercial, and leadership stakeholders.\nMust be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future\nNo relocation assistance is offered for this position. Only candidates currently residing within a 50-mile radius of the work location (Southfield, MI) will be considered. Active-Duty Military are exempt from this geographical limitation.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nPrior experience working in automotive electrical power distribution, data center power infrastructure, or other high-power electrical infrastructure\nExperience with connectors, busbars, contact systems, power interconnects, or related electrical distribution products.\nExperience supporting customer design reviews, product qualification, validation, and design-in activities.\nDemonstrated ability to translate customer requirements into product recommendations and development opportunities.\nExperience supporting new product introductions, new market development, or strategic growth initiatives.\nSkills:\nProficiency reviewing and interpreting engineering drawings, 3D models, specifications, validation reports, and technical documentation.\nFamiliarity with CAD platforms such as Creo, SolidWorks, CATIA, NX, or equivalent engineering tools.\nStrong analytical and technical problem-solving capabilities.\nAbility to evaluate electrical, thermal, mechanical, and reliability performance data to support engineering decisions and customer applications.\nStrong project leadership and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple technical activities simultaneously.\nDemonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence decisions without direct authority.\nStrong verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.\nWorking knowledge of Microsoft Excel and related tools for technical analysis, customer requirements management, and project coordination.\nAll positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.\nWe are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.\nEaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.\nYou do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.\nTo request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.\nWe know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. 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