Head of Engineering
Job Summary
Build an engineering organization capable of developing Loom-owned hybrid inverter and BESS products that are:
- Safe
- Reliable
- Cost competitive
- Highly efficient
- Easy to install and service
- IoT/cloud connected
- Scalable from residential to C&I applications
- Designed for Indian grid and operating conditions
- Ready for domestic and international markets
Primary objective: Build Looms core power-electronics IP rather than remaining dependent on OEM products.
Own architecture for:
- Hybrid inverter
- On-grid inverter
- Off-grid inverter
- Battery inverter
- PCS
- Residential BESS
- C&I BESS
- Battery packs
- BMS
- EMS
- Energy gateway
- Monitoring platform
Define:
PV Inverter Battery Grid Load EV
system architecture.
Lead development of:
- 3 kW
- 5 kW
- 6 kW
- 8 kW
- 10 kW
- 15 kW
- Three-phase hybrid inverter platforms
Key engineering areas:
- MPPT
- DC/DC
- DC/AC conversion
- Power semiconductor selection
- MOSFET/IGBT/SiC architecture
- Magnetics
- Gate drivers
- Protection circuits
- Grid synchronization
- Anti-islanding
- Power-factor control
- Harmonic reduction
- Thermal management
- Surge protection
- Firmware/control algorithms
Develop scalable BESS platforms from residential to commercial applications.
Responsibilities include:
- Battery pack architecture
- Rack design
- BMS
- Cell selection
- Battery balancing
- SOC/SOH algorithms
- Thermal management
- DC protection
- Contactors
- Fuses
- Pre-charge circuits
- PCS
- EMS
- Fire protection
- HVAC integration
- Containerized BESS architecture
- Battery monitoring
- Remote diagnostics
Experience with LFP chemistry and large-format battery systems is highly desirable.
Build or manage development of an intelligent BMS capable of:
- Cell monitoring
- Cell balancing
- Over-voltage protection
- Under-voltage protection
- Over-current protection
- Short-circuit protection
- Temperature protection
- SOC calculation
- SOH calculation
- Fault detection
- Event logging
- Remote diagnostics
Develop EMS capabilities for:
- Solar self-consumption
- Peak shaving
- Time-of-use optimization
- Backup power
- Grid charging
- Solar charging
- Battery scheduling
- Demand management
- DG optimization
- Dynamic energy management
The inverter/BESS should become a connected energy platform not merely hardware.
Lead integration of:
- Embedded firmware
- DSP
- MCU
- CAN
- RS485
- Modbus
- Wi-Fi
- 4G
- Bluetooth
- OTA firmware updates
- Cloud monitoring
- Mobile application
- Remote diagnostics
- API integration
Target architecture:
Device Gateway Cloud App Analytics AI
Own the complete NPD process:
Market requirement Product specification Architecture Simulation Prototype EVT DVT PVT Certification Mass production Field validation
Establish engineering gates for:
- Design review
- BOM review
- Reliability review
- Safety review
- Software validation
- Hardware validation
- Production validation
- Field testing
Build an internal validation laboratory covering:
- Efficiency
- MPPT performance
- Power factor
- THD
- Load testing
- Grid simulation
- Battery cycling
- High temperature
- Low temperature
- Humidity
- Dust
- Water ingress
- Vibration
- Shock
- Altitude
- Short circuit
- Over-voltage
- Over-current
- Thermal runaway
- Insulation
- Ground fault
- Surge
- Lightning protection
The engineering head will be accountable for field failure rate and product reliability.
Lead product certification and compliance for relevant Indian and international standards including applicable:
- BIS
- IEC
- IS standards
- EMC
- Grid-connectivity requirements
- Battery safety requirements
- Transportation requirements
- Fire-safety requirements
Experience with certification laboratories and regulatory authorities is strongly preferred.
Work closely with:
- Manufacturing
- Quality
- Supply Chain
- Procurement
- NPD
- Service
to achieve:
Design Prototype Pilot Mass Production
Responsibilities include:
- DFM/DFA
- BOM optimization
- Component localization
- Test fixtures
- End-of-line testing
- Production calibration
- Yield improvement
- Cost reduction
The leader must build products that can compete with Chinese and Indian manufacturers.
Own:
Target Cost Design Cost BOM Cost Manufacturing Cost Gross Margin
Focus on:
- Component localization
- BOM reduction
- Design simplification
- Common platforms
- Supplier development
- Power density
- Manufacturing yield
The Head of Engineering should build the following organization:
Team | Initial Strength |
Head Power Electronics | 1 |
Power Electronics Engineers | 46 |
Embedded/Firmware Engineers | 46 |
BMS Engineers | 34 |
EMS/Software Engineers | 34 |
Hardware Engineers | 35 |
Mechanical/Thermal Engineers | 23 |
Battery Pack Engineers | 23 |
System Engineers | 23 |
Testing & Validation | 57 |
Certification/Compliance | 2 |
Reliability Engineers | 2 |
NPD/Project Managers | 23 |
Initial team | 3550 |
The organization can subsequently scale to 75100 engineers as Loom develops multiple product platforms.
The leader should be evaluated against concrete product milestones.
- Build engineering organization
- Finalize product roadmap
- Select technology architecture
- Identify OEM/technology partners where required
- Establish laboratory requirements
- Freeze first-product specifications
- Create engineering SOP/NPD process
- Working hybrid inverter prototype
- Battery pack prototype
- BMS prototype
- EMS prototype
- Cloud monitoring prototype
- Initial laboratory validation
- Engineering validation
- Field trials
- Certification
- Manufacturing prototype
- Reliability testing
Mass-production-ready Loom hybrid inverter BESS platform
with:
- Certification
- Production BOM
- Manufacturing test system
- Service manual
- Installation SOP
- Warranty framework
- Remote monitoring
- Field-service architecture
The Head of Engineering will be measured on:
KPI | Target |
Product development cycle | 912 months |
Prototype success rate | >90% |
First-pass certification | >90% |
Product efficiency | Industry competitive |
Field failure rate | <1% |
Engineering change after launch | <5% |
BOM cost reduction | 1020% annually |
Localization | >70% initially increasing |
On-time NPD | >90% |
Warranty cost | <12% of sales |
Product gross margin | Company target |
New products launched | 35/year |
- 12 years in power electronics
- Strong inverter experience
- Hybrid inverter/PCS experience
- BESS experience
- BMS understanding
- Embedded systems experience
- Product development experience
- Manufacturing-transfer experience
- Certification experience
- Team-building experience
Experience with companies/products involving:
- Solar inverter
- Hybrid inverter
- PCS
- BESS
- Lithium battery
- EV power electronics
- Energy storage
- EMS
- Microgrid
Experience working with Indian and Chinese engineering/manufacturing ecosystems would be a major advantage.
This is not a conventional R&D manager role.
The person must be able to:
Think like a CTO engineer product manager manufacturing leader.
They must be comfortable moving between:
Customer Product Circuit Firmware Prototype Factory Certification Field
and personally solve critical engineering problems.
Look for senior engineers/leaders from companies involved in:
- Solar inverters
- BESS
- Power electronics
- EV chargers
- UPS
- Industrial drives
- Energy storage
- EV powertrain
Potential talent pools include organizations such as Sungrow Huawei Digital Power Delta Electronics Schneider Electric ABB Siemens Luminous Su-Kam Exide Energy Amara Raja Waaree Enphase Growatt and GoodWe among others.
Work Timing : 10:00 am to 7:00 pm (Monday to Saturday)
Education : MBA/Computer Science
Address : Loom Solar Pvt Ltd (14/4 Mathura Road Faridabad 121003)
Contact : Muskan Singh
Gender : Male / Female
Job Type : Full Time
Job Location : Faridabad
Required Skills:
Desired Candidate Profile Education / BE (Electrical Mechanical Civil Energy) MBA preferred Experience 1015 years experience in: o Solar EPC o Infrastructure o Electrical projects o Renewable energy business Minimum 5 years in leadership role handling P& Industry Experience Experience in companies like: Tata Power Solar Waaree Energies SolarSquare Loom Solar Adani Green Energy Vikram Solar Required Skills Business Skills P&L Management Strategic Planning Sales Leadership Contract Negotiation Channel Expansion Budgeting & Forecasting Technical Skills Solar EPC execution Rooftop & C&I solar systems Tendering & project costing Regulatory understanding CRM & ERP systems Leadership Skills Team Building Decision Making Cross-functional coordination Conflict Resolution Stakeholder Management