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R&D Senior Electrical Engineer

ABB Inc.
United States, Arkansas, Fort Smith
May 15, 2025
R&D Senior Electrical Engineer At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions.
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This position reports to

Director of Research & Development

Your role and responsibilities

The R&D Senior Electrical Engineer supports a team of electrical engineers in the development of electric motor technologies and products by identifying and implementing innovative solutions while helping manage motor technologies, platforms, and intellectual property.
The work model for the role is: Onsite #LI-Onsite
You will be mainly accountable for:
*Contributing significantly to successful results in technology development, product development, and support of existing products. Performs a detailed cost-benefit analysis for design optimization.
*Creating electrical designs for industrial motors per internal specifications and industry standards from fractional through integral horsepower ranges. Maintains a special emphasis on AC induction motor design methodology, modeling techniques, test standards, and analysis of motor test data.
*Leveraging expertise in motor design to contribute innovative and creative ideas to a variety of complex R&D assignments. Ensures appropriate protection of newly created intellectual proper-ty. Acts as project leader or senior project member providing experience in the execution and use of supporting engineering tools, processes, and methods.
*Collaborating with Product Management, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain on product specification, application assistance, regulatory or certification requirements and processes while sharing knowledge and supporting colleagues to ensure timely and high quality results.

Qualifications for the role
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering with a minimum of 8 years of experience with electric motors.
  • Preferred Experience Includes: SAP and knowledge of electric motor technologies, advanced design methodologies (FEA), manufacturing processes, and customer support experience.
  • Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.
More about us

ABB's NEMA Motors Division is a marketer, designer and manufacturer that offers Baldor-Reliance industrial electric motors, primarily in North America. The Division focuses on quality, reliability and efficiency to provide a comprehensive offering of NEMA motors in the market across most industrial segments and applications.
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ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their- sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.
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