Engineering Product Lead-Electronics

Eaton’s Bussmann Division is currently seeking an Engineering Product Lead – Electronics. This is a hybrid position (3 days on-site, 2 days remote per week) based at our Ellisville, MO location. Relocation assistance will be provided to candidates currently residing within the US/PR.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $97,000 – $143,000 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.

The Engineering Product Lead serves as the North America center of expertise for Bussmann’s smart fuse switch and broader smart electronics portfolio, combining deep embedded systems knowledge with customer‑facing technical leadership to drive innovative product creation. This role gathers and translates Voice of Customer insights into clear design requirements, aligns commercial, marketing, and engineering teams, and supports the full lifecycle of electronic products, from concept development and prototyping through launch, field adoption, and sustaining engineering.

The position performs advanced system‑level design and problem solving, partners closely with global development teams and suppliers, and ensures solutions meet performance, manufacturability, and cost objectives while enabling a strong pipeline of next‑generation smart products.

• Serve as the NA center of expertise for Bussmann’s smart electronic products, providing technical support to customers, commercial teams, and operations.
• Lead VOC activities, including customer visits, field evaluations, and troubleshooting sessions, to translate customer needs into clear engineering and product requirements.
• Act as the primary liaison between product marketing, commercial teams, and product development to ensure alignment of customer feedback, design intent, and roadmap priorities.
• Support the development and execution of the electronics and smart products roadmap, contributing technical insight and validating product direction.
• Guide cross‑functional engineering teams by providing technical leadership, clarifying expectations, and coordinating tasks across hardware, firmware, mechanical, and testing disciplines.
• Collaborate with electronic suppliers and manufacturing partners to support prototype builds, issue resolution, manufacturability, and design for production activities.
• Own or contribute to design controls, including requirements definition, documentation, change management, verification and validation plans, and regulatory or certification inputs.
• Contribute to agile development cycles, participating in sprint planning, requirement refinement, design reviews, and continuous improvement of development practices.
• Apply expertise in analog/digital circuits, microcontrollers, firmware interaction, and signal processing to support design decisions and troubleshoot system‑level issues.
• Support product launches and sustaining activities, ensuring robust handoff from development to operations and addressing issues related to quality, reliability, or field performance.
• Develop schedules, milestones, and budgets for electronics development activities and coordinate timely progress across internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain a continuous pipeline of innovation by gathering market intelligence, benchmarking competitive offerings, and identifying opportunities for future features, platforms, or programs.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronic or Computer Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in electronic product design utilizing modern microprocessors, networking, user interface and power supply designs.
• Experience partnering with customers to elicit requirements, gather Voice of Customer feedback, and support product functionality through training and issue resolution.
• 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,…