# Sr. Design Engineering Specialist

Location: South Boston, Virginia, United States of AmericaJob ID: R0118370Date Posted: 2026-01-27Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY USA INCProfession (Job Category): Engineering & ScienceJob Schedule: Full timeRemote: NoJob Description: The opportunity Join a team shaping the future of reliable, efficient and sustainable energy. As a Senior Transformer Design Specialist at Hitachi Energy, you’ll contribute to breakthrough technologies that power industries, communities, and infrastructure around the world. This role offers the chance to influence next-generation transformer solutions while working alongside talented engineers committed to quality, innovation, and safety. You’ll collaborate across functions to develop designs that meet complex customer needs, lead initiatives that enhance product performance, and support critical prototype and testing activities. If you thrive in an environment where ideas become impact, and where your technical expertise supports a stronger, smarter energy grid, this is the place to grow your career. How you’ll make an impact Collaborate on custom transformer designs with a strong focus on safety and hazard mitigation. Lead the design and development of

- **Id**: 3926807
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hitachi-sr-design-engineering-specialist>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: South Boston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-26T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T14:11:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 14
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4033
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Enterprise Storage Systems, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Systems Integrators, Electrical Equipment & Cables

## Company

- **Id**: 129
- **Name**: Hitachi
- **Domain**: hitachi.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hitachi>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 598
- **Ghost share**: 0.005
- **Stale share**: 0.734
- **Repost share**: 0.015
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 17
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 14

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T20:05:40Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8; Filings 12m: 8

## Liveness

- **Score**: 46
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.616
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 14
- **Expected fill days**: 17
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:late, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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