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Eaton’s AER FED Fluid Electrical Distribution division is currently seeking a Sr. Power Supply and Distribution Design Engineer.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $130000 - $190000 a year.
Please 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.
- This Hybrid role requires working on-site 3 days a week at our Torrance,CA facility.
Position Overview:
Eaton’s Aerospace Division is seeking a Senior Power Supply and Distribution Design Engineer to develop advanced power-conversion, inverters and high-voltage electrical-distribution solutions for aerospace and military applications. This senior individual-contributor role will lead assigned designs from requirements and architecture through detailed design, analysis, verification, qualification support, production transition and sustaining.
The position will focus on high-density, high-efficiency DC/DC and AC/DC conversion, DC/AC inversion, power-factor correction, and high-voltage distribution using advanced analog and digital control technologies. The engineer will also support existing products and product derivatives by improving performance, reducing product and manufacturing costs, resolving technical issues, and strengthening quality and reliability.
The successful candidate will collaborate with systems, embedded software, ucontroller and/or FPGA, mechanical, thermal, PCB, test, manufacturing, quality, supply-chain, and program-management teams. This role supports Eaton Aerospace’s electrification strategy and continued growth in Aerospace/Military electric aircraft and vehicle including eVTOL/eCTOL applications.
What you’ll do:
- Lead assigned power-conversion and power-distribution designs from requirements and architecture through detailed design, analysis, design review, verification, qualification support, and production transition.
- Translate customer and system-level requirements into electrical, control, protection, thermal, mechanical-interface, reliability, and verification requirements.
- Develop reliable, cost-effective, manufacturable solutions that meet customer requirements and applicable aerospace, military, regulatory, and product-safety standards.
- Perform topology and architecture trade studies that balance efficiency, power density, thermal performance, EMI, reliability, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and supply-chain risk.
- Design switch-mode DC/DC and AC/DC converters, DC/AC inverters, power-factor-correction stages, protection circuits, sensing interfaces, communication interfaces, and high-voltage distribution assemblies.
- Develop, implement, and validate digital-control algorithms for power-conversion systems using microcontrollers, DSPs, FPGAs, or similar control platforms.
- Perform loss and efficiency modeling, control-loop stability analysis, worst-case circuit analysis, tolerance and Monte Carlo analysis, component derating, magnetics design, EMI-filter assessment, and thermal analysis.
- Evaluate component selections considering electrical performance, reliability, cost, availability, lifecycle status, second-source strategy, and supply-chain risk.
- Develop schematics, design calculations, simulations, interface definitions, design-review packages, verification plans, test procedures, and technical reports.
- Lead or support architecture, schematic, PCB-layout, design, test-readiness, qualification-readiness, and production-readiness reviews.
- Plan and execute prototype bring-up, troubleshooting, characterization, and design verification using appropriate power-electronics laboratory instrumentation and safe high-voltage test practices.
- Analyze test results, identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and document objective evidence of design compliance.
- Collaborate with PCB, mechanical, and thermal engineers to establish layout, grounding, isolation, packaging, cooling, structural, creepage, clearance, thermal, and EMI requirements.
- Partner with manufacturing, quality, test, and supply-chain teams to ensure designs are manufacturable, testable, reliable, cost-effective, and ready for production.
- Support configuration control, engineering changes, product derivatives, component obsolescence, alternate-source qualification, and sustaining-design improvements.
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, technical decision-making, problem resolution, and development of reusable design practices without direct people-management responsibility.
- Apply Design for Six Sigma methods, engineering simulation and modeling tools, and phase-gate development processes.
- Conduct technology and competitive assessments to inform product architectures, component selections, technical roadmaps, and make-versus-buy decisions.
- Support technical papers, invention disclosures, patents, and technical presentations when appropriate.
Additional Information:
- Deliver robust power-electronics solutions that meet program technical, cost, quality, and schedule objectives.
- Meet program-specific efficiency, power-density, thermal, EMI, reliability, and manufacturability requirements.
- Identify technical risks early and drive disciplined closure of design and verification issues.
- Maintain complete and traceable design evidence for technical reviews, verification, qualification, and production transition.
- Improve design reuse and reduce avoidable redesign, test escapes, product cost, manufacturing cost, and sustaining effort.
- Communicate technical risks, assumptions, trade-offs, and required decisions clearly and early.
Typical Deliverables
- Power-conversion and high-voltage distribution architectures
- System and circuit-level requirements
- Topology, component, and architecture trade studies
- Schematics and detailed design calculations
- Control-loop models and stability analyses
- Magnetics, EMI, thermal, derating, tolerance, and worst-case analyses
- PCB design requirements and layout-review records
- Design-review packages and technical decision records
- Verification plans, procedures, and reports
- Qualification-support documentation
- Released drawings, specifications, bills of material, and design records
- Root-cause and corrective-action documentation
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a closely related technical discipline from an accredited institution.
- Minimum seven years of relevant power-electronics design experience, including demonstrated experience with multiple power-conversion topologies, high-density/high-efficiency designs, analog or digital control, magnetics, EMI, thermal management and use of WBG technology and high power, high frequency magnetics (i.e. planar).
- Experience developing, implementing, and validating digital-control algorithms for power-conversion systems using microcontrollers, DSPs, FPGAs, or similar control platforms.
- Experience with analog and digital feedback control, loop compensation, stability analysis, and control-system verification.
- Experience performing circuit simulation, design analysis, laboratory testing, hardware bring-up, debugging, and verification.
- Experience with component derating, worst-case circuit analysis, failure-mode analysis, reliability prediction, and environmental qualification
- Experience developing engineering documentation and supporting formal technical reviews.
- Ability to collaborate across a matrixed, multidisciplinary, and geographically distributed engineering organization.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future.
- This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and hig level security projects. All applicants must be U.S. Citizens due to Military/ Defense project sensitivity.
- Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.”
- Candidate will not need sponsorship now or in the future.
- No relocation assistance is available for this role. Candidates must reside within 50 miles of Torrance , CA .
- Experience developing multi-kilowatt aerospace and military power-conversion and high-voltage electrical-distribution products.
- Demonstrated ownership of hardware taken through requirements, detailed design, verification, qualification, production transition, and sustaining support.
- Experience designing power-conversion hardware using silicon and/or wide-bandgap SiC and GaN devices, including gate-drive design, switching behavior, parasitics, thermal performance, protection, layout, and EMI considerations.
- Experience with FPGA-based control, microcontroller design, embedded interfaces, and hardware and firmware integration.
- Knowledge of military and aerospace high-voltage power-distribution systems, including architecture, switching and protection, pre-charge, sensing, thermal management, communications, packaging, and fault management.
- Experience applying applicable electrical and environmental requirements, including DO-160, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-704.
- Familiarity with DO-178 and DO-254 development-assurance processes and their impact on hardware/software interfaces. .
- Experience with PLECS, MATLAB, Simulink, SPICE-based simulation tools, Altium Designer, and SolidWorks.
- Experience with requirements-management, product-lifecycle-management, configuration-control, or engineering-change systems.
- Experience supporting customer technical reviews, certification activities, or qualification testing.
- Project leadership or technical work-package management experience.
Skills:
- Demonstrates strong analytical judgment and structured problem-solving ability.
- Makes sound engineering decisions using objective evidence, appropriate analysis, and documented technical trade-offs.
- Works effectively in a matrix environment and influences outcomes without relying on direct authority.
- Communicates technical risks, assumptions, constraints, and required decisions early and clearly.
- Balances performance, reliability, safety, manufacturability, cost, schedule, and supply-chain considerations.
- Manages multiple assignments while maintaining accurate, complete, and configuration-controlled technical deliverables.
- Leads complex troubleshooting and root-cause investigations through disciplined, data-based methods.
- Builds productive working relationships across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, program management, suppliers, and customers.
- Mentors other engineers and contributes to stronger technical practices, design reuse, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrates accountability for commitments and follows technical issues through closure.
All 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.
We 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.
Eaton 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.
You 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.
To 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.
We 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. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Eaton’s AER FED Fluid Electrical Distribution division is currently seeking a Sr. Power Supply and Distribution Design Engineer.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $130000 - $190000 a year.
Please 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.
- This Hybrid role requires working on-site 3 days a week at our Torrance,CA facility.
Position Overview:
Eaton’s Aerospace Division is seeking a Senior Power Supply and Distribution Design Engineer to develop advanced power-conversion, inverters and high-voltage electrical-distribution solutions for aerospace and military applications. This senior individual-contributor role will lead assigned designs from requirements and architecture through detailed design, analysis, verification, qualification support, production transition and sustaining.
The position will focus on high-density, high-efficiency DC/DC and AC/DC conversion, DC/AC inversion, power-factor correction, and high-voltage distribution using advanced analog and digital control technologies. The engineer will also support existing products and product derivatives by improving performance, reducing product and manufacturing costs, resolving technical issues, and strengthening quality and reliability.
The successful candidate will collaborate with systems, embedded software, ucontroller and/or FPGA, mechanical, thermal, PCB, test, manufacturing, quality, supply-chain, and program-management teams. This role supports Eaton Aerospace’s electrification strategy and continued growth in Aerospace/Military electric aircraft and vehicle including eVTOL/eCTOL applications.
What you’ll do:
- Lead assigned power-conversion and power-distribution designs from requirements and architecture through detailed design, analysis, design review, verification, qualification support, and production transition.
- Translate customer and system-level requirements into electrical, control, protection, thermal, mechanical-interface, reliability, and verification requirements.
- Develop reliable, cost-effective, manufacturable solutions that meet customer requirements and applicable aerospace, military, regulatory, and product-safety standards.
- Perform topology and architecture trade studies that balance efficiency, power density, thermal performance, EMI, reliability, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and supply-chain risk.
- Design switch-mode DC/DC and AC/DC converters, DC/AC inverters, power-factor-correction stages, protection circuits, sensing interfaces, communication interfaces, and high-voltage distribution assemblies.
- Develop, implement, and validate digital-control algorithms for power-conversion systems using microcontrollers, DSPs, FPGAs, or similar control platforms.
- Perform loss and efficiency modeling, control-loop stability analysis, worst-case circuit analysis, tolerance and Monte Carlo analysis, component derating, magnetics design, EMI-filter assessment, and thermal analysis.
- Evaluate component selections considering electrical performance, reliability, cost, availability, lifecycle status, second-source strategy, and supply-chain risk.
- Develop schematics, design calculations, simulations, interface definitions, design-review packages, verification plans, test procedures, and technical reports.
- Lead or support architecture, schematic, PCB-layout, design, test-readiness, qualification-readiness, and production-readiness reviews.
- Plan and execute prototype bring-up, troubleshooting, characterization, and design verification using appropriate power-electronics laboratory instrumentation and safe high-voltage test practices.
- Analyze test results, identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and document objective evidence of design compliance.
- Collaborate with PCB, mechanical, and thermal engineers to establish layout, grounding, isolation, packaging, cooling, structural, creepage, clearance, thermal, and EMI requirements.
- Partner with manufacturing, quality, test, and supply-chain teams to ensure designs are manufacturable, testable, reliable, cost-effective, and ready for production.
- Support configuration control, engineering changes, product derivatives, component obsolescence, alternate-source qualification, and sustaining-design improvements.
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, technical decision-making, problem resolution, and development of reusable design practices without direct people-management responsibility.
- Apply Design for Six Sigma methods, engineering simulation and modeling tools, and phase-gate development processes.
- Conduct technology and competitive assessments to inform product architectures, component selections, technical roadmaps, and make-versus-buy decisions.
- Support technical papers, invention disclosures, patents, and technical presentations when appropriate.
Additional Information:
- Deliver robust power-electronics solutions that meet program technical, cost, quality, and schedule objectives.
- Meet program-specific efficiency, power-density, thermal, EMI, reliability, and manufacturability requirements.
- Identify technical risks early and drive disciplined closure of design and verification issues.
- Maintain complete and traceable design evidence for technical reviews, verification, qualification, and production transition.
- Improve design reuse and reduce avoidable redesign, test escapes, product cost, manufacturing cost, and sustaining effort.
- Communicate technical risks, assumptions, trade-offs, and required decisions clearly and early.
Typical Deliverables
- Power-conversion and high-voltage distribution architectures
- System and circuit-level requirements
- Topology, component, and architecture trade studies
- Schematics and detailed design calculations
- Control-loop models and stability analyses
- Magnetics, EMI, thermal, derating, tolerance, and worst-case analyses
- PCB design requirements and layout-review records
- Design-review packages and technical decision records
- Verification plans, procedures, and reports
- Qualification-support documentation
- Released drawings, specifications, bills of material, and design records
- Root-cause and corrective-action documentation
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a closely related technical discipline from an accredited institution.
- Minimum seven years of relevant power-electronics design experience, including demonstrated experience with multiple power-conversion topologies, high-density/high-efficiency designs, analog or digital control, magnetics, EMI, thermal management and use of WBG technology and high power, high frequency magnetics (i.e. planar).
- Experience developing, implementing, and validating digital-control algorithms for power-conversion systems using microcontrollers, DSPs, FPGAs, or similar control platforms.
- Experience with analog and digital feedback control, loop compensation, stability analysis, and control-system verification.
- Experience performing circuit simulation, design analysis, laboratory testing, hardware bring-up, debugging, and verification.
- Experience with component derating, worst-case circuit analysis, failure-mode analysis, reliability prediction, and environmental qualification
- Experience developing engineering documentation and supporting formal technical reviews.
- Ability to collaborate across a matrixed, multidisciplinary, and geographically distributed engineering organization.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future.
- This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and hig level security projects. All applicants must be U.S. Citizens due to Military/ Defense project sensitivity.
- Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.”
- Candidate will not need sponsorship now or in the future.
- No relocation assistance is available for this role. Candidates must reside within 50 miles of Torrance , CA .
- Experience developing multi-kilowatt aerospace and military power-conversion and high-voltage electrical-distribution products.
- Demonstrated ownership of hardware taken through requirements, detailed design, verification, qualification, production transition, and sustaining support.
- Experience designing power-conversion hardware using silicon and/or wide-bandgap SiC and GaN devices, including gate-drive design, switching behavior, parasitics, thermal performance, protection, layout, and EMI considerations.
- Experience with FPGA-based control, microcontroller design, embedded interfaces, and hardware and firmware integration.
- Knowledge of military and aerospace high-voltage power-distribution systems, including architecture, switching and protection, pre-charge, sensing, thermal management, communications, packaging, and fault management.
- Experience applying applicable electrical and environmental requirements, including DO-160, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-704.
- Familiarity with DO-178 and DO-254 development-assurance processes and their impact on hardware/software interfaces. .
- Experience with PLECS, MATLAB, Simulink, SPICE-based simulation tools, Altium Designer, and SolidWorks.
- Experience with requirements-management, product-lifecycle-management, configuration-control, or engineering-change systems.
- Experience supporting customer technical reviews, certification activities, or qualification testing.
- Project leadership or technical work-package management experience.
Skills:
- Demonstrates strong analytical judgment and structured problem-solving ability.
- Makes sound engineering decisions using objective evidence, appropriate analysis, and documented technical trade-offs.
- Works effectively in a matrix environment and influences outcomes without relying on direct authority.
- Communicates technical risks, assumptions, constraints, and required decisions early and clearly.
- Balances performance, reliability, safety, manufacturability, cost, schedule, and supply-chain considerations.
- Manages multiple assignments while maintaining accurate, complete, and configuration-controlled technical deliverables.
- Leads complex troubleshooting and root-cause investigations through disciplined, data-based methods.
- Builds productive working relationships across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, program management, suppliers, and customers.
- Mentors other engineers and contributes to stronger technical practices, design reuse, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrates accountability for commitments and follows technical issues through closure.
All 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.
We 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.
Eaton 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.
You 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.
To 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.
We 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. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
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Who's Hiring
- Burns & McDonnell58
- Sargent & Lundy41
- ENTRUST Solutions11
- Tesla9
- Leidos7
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services19
- Technology & Software15
- Energy7
- Cybersecurity7
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in associate distribution engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a closely related field
- Familiarity with distribution design software such as CYME or ETAP
- Understanding of overhead and underground distribution system components
- Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification or progress toward PE licensure
- Experience reading and interpreting electrical drawings and schematics
- Knowledge of NESC standards and utility safety compliance requirements
Tips for Your Associate Distribution Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to distribution systems
Highlight specific experience with overhead and underground distribution lines, switching equipment, or protective relay coordination. Hiring managers for associate distribution engineer roles want to see you've worked with actual grid infrastructure, not just general electrical engineering coursework.
Get your EIT certification before applying
Many utilities and engineering firms prioritize candidates who have passed the Fundamentals of Engineering exam. Earning your EIT designation before you apply signals you're on the PE track and separates you from applicants with identical degrees but no credentials.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists associate distribution engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Show proficiency in distribution design software
Mention tools like CYME, ETAP, or AutoCAD in your resume and cover letter. Many job descriptions for associate distribution engineers screen for software familiarity before the first interview, so naming the specific platforms you've used avoids early elimination.
Prepare for load flow and fault analysis questions
Technical interviews for associate distribution engineer roles commonly test your ability to walk through short-circuit calculations, voltage drop analysis, or feeder loading scenarios. Reviewing your power systems coursework and practicing verbal explanations of these calculations sharpens your interview performance.
Follow up with a technical detail from the interview
After your interview, send a follow-up note that references a specific technical topic you discussed, such as a protection coordination challenge or a distribution automation question. This reinforces your engineering depth and keeps you distinct from candidates who send generic thank-you messages.
Associate Distribution Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most associate distribution engineers?
The most active employers for associate distribution engineers right now are Burns & McDonnell, Sargent & Lundy, and ENTRUST Solutions, and the most openings are in California, Texas, and Pennsylvania, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Regional utilities and large engineering consulting firms tend to post the highest volume of associate-level openings.
How many associate distribution engineer jobs are remote?
About 75% of associate distribution engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of most distribution engineering work. Sub-areas with more remote availability include distribution planning, load forecasting, and GIS-based mapping, where fieldwork is less central to the daily role.
How do you become an associate distribution engineer?
Start by earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, with coursework in power systems, circuit analysis, and energy distribution. Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to become an EIT strengthens your candidacy significantly. Internships or co-ops at a utility or engineering firm give you hands-on exposure to distribution design tools and field operations before your first full-time role.
Can you get hired as an associate distribution engineer with little experience?
Yes, many utilities and engineering consultancies hire associate distribution engineers directly from new-grad programs if you have relevant internship experience or strong power systems coursework. Highlighting any project work involving protective relay settings, feeder design, or load analysis, even from academic labs, helps bridge the gap when your professional experience is limited.
What does the associate distribution engineer interview process look like?
The process typically starts with an initial screening call focused on your educational background and software familiarity, followed by a technical interview covering power systems fundamentals such as fault current calculations, voltage regulation, and protection coordination. A final round often involves a panel with senior engineers who assess your problem-solving approach and your understanding of utility operations and safety standards.
Where can I find and apply to associate distribution engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to associate distribution engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing from the page.
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