The position

We are currently looking for a Technologist for our Electric Power Test (EPT) team.
The position will be based in Darmstadt, Germany. As far as the internal part of the work is concerned, most of the work can also be done remotely. Occasional meetings in Darmstadt will be mandatory, though. Other locations maybe considered based on the candidates qualification and experience.

Our new Technologist will be responsible to start up and to take the lead in our approach to achieve a “thought leadership” role in the electric power test market. This market includes electric vehicles, electric aircraft, the energy sector including the power grid, and other inverter/electrical machine applications.
In this role he will work closely together with customers, application engineers, engineering, academia,  the HBM internal “Academy”, HBK direct and non direct sales organizations and Business Development on a worldwide scale
 

Primary responsibilities

You will be responsible to support the rapidly growing strategic business initiative “Electric Power Testing” with cutting edge technology ideas and application solutions.
This should be developed based on customer demands, needs and pain points and overcome the “traditional” solutions and approaches currently available in the market.
These technological ideas will be generated with customers and internal collegues, investigated for feasibility, and tested for implementation both theoretically as well as practically. Both technical and also basic commercial aspects need to be considered. Once needs and approaches for their solutions are defined and worked out, these should be presented at congresses and exhibitions, and also - together with Product Management - converted into Key Requirement Documents for engineering.
You will also support our ongoing activities to better educate the HBK staff in all levels towards advanced electrical power testing. Also to develop and establish our consultancy business model, initially executed  in person and later transferring to our HBK engineering services team.

Your daily work includes:

• Contribute and support HBK’s growth strategy in electric power testing
• Identify and investigate potential new applications and develop solutions / processes to address these with existing or new products
• Create white papers on electric power testing and present these at congresses
• Investigate and work out groundbreaking new approached to address customer needs, wishes and solve their pain points in the electric test realm
• Support our application engineers in demanding applications, helping to further develop their skills and know how
• Set up and initiate a training plan to educate HBK staff in relevant departments to a higher knowledge level in electric power testing
• For large and demanding application, deliver on site support (for sales channels & BDs)
• Support University relationships, especially in the light of common white papers, and common thought leadership projects
• Membership in relevant organisations and committees
• Support / act with global engineering services to establish, develop and offer a valuable, sellable consultancy base for electric power testing problems
• Educate and support HBK Academy (train the trainers)
• Take the lead on our approach to investigate, understand, and use MU in our sales approach and develop the HBK MU solution. This is done in conjunction with academia, HBK Academy, Engineering and BD.
• Support engineering and PM converting market requirements into technical solutions and verifying these for market acceptance; this is especially true for highly application oriented new features
• Evaluate and identify potential cross over synergies with existing HBK analysis tools like Prenscia to be used and sold into EPT applications
• Identify and develop Analysis processes and tools in the EPT range
  • Work these out technically in detail, verify with the market
  • Work with BD and PM to establish business cases
  • Support PM to create key requirement documents (KRDs) for these
• Conduct technical conversations with customers to analyze needs and determine value
• Demonstrate where appropriate HBK’s electric power testing capability
• Expect to be out of the office at customer sites or other business travel about 30% of the time. Travel will be a mix of domestic and international travel.
• Take the lead in setting up and operating a HBK usable test rig for experimental and demo purposes. This rig should be usable for TSC, Academy, AEs, Engineering Services and yourself.