Head of Product Engineering (Large Power Transformers

The Head of Product Engineering will join the founding team to lead all design, materials, and manufacturability initiatives for Terminus’ transformer product line. This role will define the company’s technical DNA — translating years of power-engineering know-how into modern, automated, and scalable production.

This is a critical leadership role, responsible for architecting Terminus’ first generation of 50–600 MVA power transformers, establishing internal design standards, and integrating advanced design tools (CAD, FEA, digital twins) with manufacturing automation.

• Product Design Leadership:
  Lead end-to-end electrical and mechanical design of LPTs (core, windings, tank, OLTC, bushings, cooling, insulation systems).
• Design for Manufacturability:
  Translate design requirements into scalable manufacturing workflows optimized for automation, repeatability, and quality.
• System Integration:
  Define and validate electrical, thermal, acoustic and mechanical performance parameters for 50–600 MVA, 69–345-kV transformers.
• Foundation OS Platform:
  Provide your subject matter expertise to the CTO to aid in the buildout and factory integration of Terminus Industrials’ proprietary power transformer design platform “Foundation OS” — ingesting customer specifications from Purchase Orders and translating them into manufacturable electromechanical designs, BOM, and CAD models.
• Toolchain Development:
  Implement advanced modeling and simulation environments with the Digital Infrastructure team (e.g., Fusion, Solid Works, COMSOL, ANSYS Maxwell, EMTP-RV).
• Compliance & Standards:
  Ensure adherence to IEEE, ANSI, IEC, DOE, and utility specifications; lead design qualification and type testing programs.
• Supplier & Utility Interface:
  Support technical engagement with utilities, EPCs, and component vendors (core steel, windings, insulation, bushings, OLTC, etc.).
• Team Building:
  Recruit, mentor, and grow the core transformer design and product-engineering team.

• 10+ years of experience in power transformer design/manufacturing, preferably at Doble Engineering, Siemens Energy, ABB/Hitachi Energy, GE Grid Solutions/GE Prolec/Waukesha, Virginia Transformer, Pennsylvania Transformer, WEG, or a major utility (Next Era Energy, AEP, Oncor, etc.) or major EPC (Burns & McDonnell, Black & Veatch, etc.).
• Deep understanding of core/winding design, insulation coordination, dielectric testing, loss optimization, and thermal management.
• Proficiency with transformer design software (e.g., EFACE, Flux, ANSYS Maxwell, COMSOL, or in-house proprietary tools).
• Strong grasp of Design for Manufacturability (DfM) and familiarity with automated or semi-automated production methods.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems focus);
  PhD or PE license preferred.
• U.S. citizenship or permanent residency (due to defense-grade program requirements).