R&D Senior Engineer

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position reports to:

R&D Unit Lead

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to successful project results in technology, software, product, and/or solution development, as well as associated Intellectual Property (IP). Each day, you will act as the first point of contact in Research and Development for specific product-related issues and maintenance. You will also showcase your expertise by identifying, proposing, and implementing innovative solutions.

In this role, you’ll help run what runs the world, by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact.

The work model for the role is: #LI-Onsite

This role is contributing to the Electrification business Distribution Solution division at Nashik, India.

You will be mainly accountable for:

- Maintaining recognized expertise in a specific area by integrating the latest developments in technologies, tools, and methodologies into your work.
- Finding new ways of solving problems by following your ideas, creating hypotheses, and defining ways to validate them.
- Documenting work results (like findings, designs, or software), allowing others to maintain and improve them.
- Understanding and initiating IP generation in your area of specialization and participating in the project IP strategy development.

Our Team Dynamics

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.

Qualifications for the role

- You are immersed in our research and development function in switchgear business
- You have 15 to 20 years of experience in Design and Development of Medium Voltage Vacuum Interrupters
- You have hands on experience on CAD (Pro-E, Creo SolidWorks etc.,), technical drawings and experience in PLM systems is required. Windchill is preferred
- Possess an enhanced knowledge of metallurgical processes e.g powder metallurgy preferred
- Knowledge on circuit breaker type testing (Electrical and Mechanical) as per applicable IEC standards
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Electrical / Mechanical / Metallurgy engineering (should be full-time)
- You are at ease communicating in English

What’s in it for you?

We want you to bring your full self to work—your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You’ll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

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