Application Engineer

What you’ll do

The Application Engineer is a consultative, technical sales professional responsible for supporting electrical consultants (power system designers) and in‑house engineering staff at end‑user customers with critical power infrastructure. These end users include data centers, multi‑tenant data centers, and customers within the commercial, institutional, government, and hyperscale markets. An application engineer must possess strong technical and commercial skills and be experienced in electrical power distribution, power quality, and control.

This position is responsible for working with electrical consultants and specifying engineers to assist in the layout and specification of critical power systems, medium voltage, and low voltage power distribution systems. The engineer will also provide technical product and application leadership for external clients, as well as technical mentoring for Eaton sales engineers and account managers.

• Support electrical engineers at consulting firms serving the Gulf Region, aiding technical design and positioning Eaton related products in a preferred position.
• Act as the primary point of contact for technical and engineering support for in‑house engineering staff and design teams at the assigned customer account base.
• Serve as a technical expert within the Gulf Region Mission Critical team, offering comprehensive support to Sales engineers and account managers for Eaton’s full portfolio, including ARS and CPS products.
• Aid the Gulf Region Mission Critical team on large bids including submittals, drawings, technical interpretation, and interfacing with the consultant and owner.
• Facilitate technical collaboration between the assigned customer base and Eaton’s product lines, supporting product innovation and providing design recommendations based on customer needs.
• Conduct product seminars and training on Eaton products and solutions at targeted consultant firms and key end customers.
• Provide mentoring and training to Gulf Region Sales Engineers across multiple verticals, and to other employees within and outside of the NAS organization.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum seven (7) years of electrical sales/marketing and/or engineering experience.
• Possess a valid driver’s license.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for immigration sponsorship or support for this position, including CPT, OPT, STEM OPT, H‑1B, O‑1, E‑3, TN, or I‑485 job portability.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50‑mile radius of Austin, Grapevine, Houston, or San Antonio, TX will be considered, except for active‑Duty Military Service members who are exempt from the geographic limitation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• LEED AP certification.
• Extensive electrical experience.
• Knowledge of Eaton electrical products, services and competitors.

• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and in the future.
• Technical knowledge regarding critical power solutions, power distribution products including medium and low voltage switch gear, panel boards, switchboards, protective relaying and busway.
• Experience with three-phase UPS systems, power distribution units, static transfer switches, remote power panels, power monitoring products (including metering and software), and power control products.
• Strategic understanding of the U.S. power distribution and data center market.
• Ability to write technical specifications for new projects in a manner that positions Eaton advantageously in bids.
• Ability to interface with electrical consultant principals, lead electrical engineers, and facility engineers at data centers.
• Problem‑solving skills.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to interact at all levels of an organization, including consultant or end‑user organizations.
• Presentation and training skills, initiative, and self‑management skills.
• Proven capability to find creative…