Application Engineer – Utility

Workplace:
On-site / Hybrid
; expected on-site approximately 3-4 days per week

Reports To: Utility Business Director, with functional coordination with China-based Engineering

Travel: Occasional travel for customer meetings, factory visits, FAT/SAT support, field activities, and project reviews

Ebon Energy is building its U.S. presence in the power and energy infrastructure market, with a focus on transformer and power-distribution solutions serving utilities, data centers, and other critical infrastructure customers.

As we expand our North American commercial and engineering capabilities, we are building a team that can work closely with customers from early technical evaluation and specification review through proposal, design coordination, manufacturing, testing, and project execution.

Ebon Energy is seeking an Application Engineer – Utility to provide front-end technical support for North American utility opportunities and serve as a key technical bridge between utility customers, the U.S. commercial team, and our engineering and manufacturing resources in China.

This role will work closely with the Utility Business Director and customer engineering teams to review utility specifications, evaluate technical requirements, select and configure compliant transformer solutions, support bids and vendor qualification, address technical questions, and coordinate technical documentation throughout the opportunity and project lifecycle.

The ideal candidate combines strong electrical engineering fundamentals with practical knowledge of distribution or power transformers, utility specifications, IEEE/ANSI standards, and electrical power-distribution systems
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This is a customer-facing engineering role suited for someone who can independently interpret detailed utility specifications, identify compliance requirements and technical exceptions, communicate effectively with utility engineers and internal stakeholders, and translate North American customer requirements into executable engineering solutions.

• Review utility specifications, one-line diagrams, electrical drawings, data sheets, equipment schedules, and other technical requirements for transformer opportunities.
• Evaluate customer requirements and select or configure appropriate distribution and/or power transformer solutions for utility applications.
• Support technical evaluation of transformer ratings, voltage requirements, impedance, insulation levels, cooling methods, accessories, protection requirements, losses, testing requirements, and other application-specific parameters.
• Review customer requirements against applicable IEEE/ANSI standards, utility-specific standards, and other North American technical and regulatory requirements
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• Prepare and maintain compliance matrices, deviation lists, technical clarifications, technical proposal inputs, and customer responses for RFQs, RFPs, and utility bids.
• Identify specification gaps, exceptions, risks, and technical issues early in the opportunity cycle and coordinate resolution with internal engineering teams.
• Review drawings, technical submittals, data sheets, test requirements, and related engineering documentation before customer release.
• Lead or support customer technical meetings, specification reviews, design discussions, bid clarification meetings, and technical qualification activities.
• Support utility vendor qualification, approved-vendor registration, and technical prequalification processes as required.
• Work closely with the Utility Business Director and commercial team during RFQ/RFP evaluation, bid preparation, proposal development, and customer negotiations.
• Coordinate technical questions, specifications, and requirements with China-based engineering and manufacturing teams and ensure clear communication between U.S. customers and internal technical resources.
• Translate utility specifications, North American standards, and customer expectations into clear engineering inputs for internal teams.
• Support the shared Application Engineering resource pool during periods of peak workload and assist with Data Center or other cross-functional technical priorities as needed.
• Support factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), customer inspections, transformer testing, and project reviews as required.
• Provide technical input during project handoff from commercial development to engineering, manufacturing, and execution teams.
• Help strengthen Ebon Energy’s…