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Job Summary

• The role serves as an Electrical/Hardware Engineering subject matter expert within the Design to Value (DTV) team, responsible for delivering electrical/hardware cost intelligence, competitive benchmarking, and design-for-cost insights across the product lifecycle.
• Leads complex electrical teardown and should-cost analysis to identify cost drivers, architecture opportunities, design trade-offs, and competitive gaps across products and platforms.
• Partners closely with R&D, Product Management, Procurement, ODMs, and suppliers to shift cost decisions upstream, influence electrical architecture and design choices, and enable fact-based RFQ and sourcing strategies.
• Applies advanced electrical engineering and cost intelligence expertise to cross-organization initiatives, driving innovation, standardization, AI-enabled analytics, and scalable DTV capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Leads complex electrical competitive teardown and should-cost projects across products, platforms, and technologies, providing actionable insights on architecture, components, BOM, specifications, and cost drivers.
• Develops and applies electrical cost modeling methodologies to establish should-cost, benchmark supplier quotes, identify cost gaps, and support fact-based sourcing and negotiation strategies.
• Provides expert-level assessment of electrical architectures, including PCB, power, connectivity, compute, memory, storage, display, battery/adapter, and other key electrical subsystems.
• Identifies opportunities for Design-for-Cost, Design-for-Manufacturing, component optimization, specification optimization, and complexity reduction across the product lifecycle.
• Partners with R&D and product teams to embed cost intelligence into early architecture, design reviews, RFQ, and PLC checkpoints, enabling shift-left cost and sourcing decisions.
• Conducts competitive benchmarking and teardown analysis to translate competitor product strategies into actionable cost, architecture, and design insights.
• Collaborates with Procurement, ODMs, and suppliers to validate cost assumptions, component pricing, manufacturing processes, and technology trends.
• Develops fact-based cost insights, business cases, and recommendations that support cost savings, cost avoidance, product competitiveness, and profitability.
• Establishes and improves standardized electrical teardown, cost modeling, benchmarking, and analytical methodologies to strengthen the DTV Cost Intelligence COE.
• Drives adoption of AI, automation, and digital tools to improve the speed, scalability, consistency, and quality of teardown and cost intelligence processes.
• Provides expert guidance and mentoring to DTV team members and cross-functional partners, building electrical cost intelligence capability and technical depth across the organization.
• Leads professionally structured technical and executive-level reports, translating complex electrical findings into clear business implications and actionable recommendations.

Education & Experience Recommended

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 10+ years of relevant experience in electrical/electronic engineering, product development, cost engineering, value engineering, teardown, should-cost modeling, sourcing, or a related field.
• Demonstrated expertise in electrical architecture, components, PCB systems, electronics manufacturing, and product cost structures.
• Experience working across R&D, Product Management, Procurement, ODMs, and suppliers in a global product development environment.
• Experience in competitive analysis, teardown, cost modeling, Design-for-Cost, Value Engineering, or supplier cost benchmarking is strongly preferred.

Preferred Certifications

• PMP, Cost Engineering, Value Engineering, or related professional certification is a plus.

Knowledge & Skills

• Electrical / Electronic Engineering
• Electrical Architecture
• PCB & PCB
• Electronic Components & BOM
• Power Electronics & Power Architecture
• Computer / System Architecture
• Component Cost Analysis
• Should-Cost Modeling
• Competitive Teardown
• Cost Benchmarking
• Design-for-Cost / Design-for-X
• Value Engineering
• Design-to-Value
• RFQ & Sourcing Strategy
• Supplier Cost Analysis
• Manufacturing Processes
• Cost Driver Analysis
• Data Analytics & Visualization
• AI & Automation
• Cost Intelligence Tools / Platforms
• Strong Technical Communication
• Executive Storytelling & Presentation

Cross-Org Skills

• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity
• Strategic Thinking
• Influencing Without Authority
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Business Acumen

Impact & Scope

• Impacts DTV, Engineering, Product Management, Procurement, and ODM/supplier decisions through electrical cost intelligence and Design-for-Cost insights.
• Leads or provides expertise to high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that influence product architecture, cost competitiveness, sourcing strategy, and product profitability.
• Serves as a recognized electrical cost intelligence SME and contributes to the development of DTV as a world-class Cost Intelligence COE.

Complexity

• Works on highly complex problems involving electrical architecture, technology, cost, supplier, manufacturing, and market variables where analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple interdependent factors.
• Operates with a high degree of independence and applies advanced technical and business judgment to ambiguous problems, translating complex data into clear recommendations and business outcomes.

Disclaimer

• This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

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