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The Opportunity

If you have spent your career deep in the physics of magnetic components — winding counts, core materials, insulation systems, thermal management — and you understand not just how a transformer is designed but how it gets built, this role was written for you.

A growing manufacturer in the data center power space is looking for a Magnetics Engineer who can own the full design lifecycle of low-voltage dry-type transformers from concept through production. This is a remote position with real engineering influence — not a support role, not a reviewer of someone else’s work. You will be the subject matter expert in the room.

The product focus is high-power dry-type transformers for data center power distribution applications, including harmonic and K-factor loading requirements. There is also meaningful opportunity to expand into medium-voltage transformer design serving data center infrastructure — which makes this a genuinely compelling role for engineers who want breadth alongside depth.

What You Will Do

You will design low-voltage dry-type transformers for data center power distribution applications — taking full ownership of electrical design, materials selection, insulation systems, mechanical construction details, and thermal and impedance targets.

You will translate your design intent into buildable product. That means producing documentation that manufacturing can actually execute: drawings, build instructions, test plans, validation reports. It also means being present when the build happens — guiding winding and assembly teams, resolving issues on the floor, and driving corrective actions when workmanship or process falls short.

You will contribute to test capability planning and help define what a robust, safe transformer test environment looks like — including grounding strategy, workflow, and considerations for advanced electrical testing.

You will help establish manufacturing discipline around cleanliness and contamination control — the kind of process rigor that high-voltage dry-type construction demands.

You will interface with customers and engineering partners on technical requirements, design reviews, and test and validation discussions. This is a visible role.

What You Bring

You have a strong electrical engineering foundation — ideally a Bachelor’s or Master’s in EE or a closely related field — with practical mechanical awareness that comes from actually supporting production.

You have 5 to 12 or more years of experience designing dry-type transformers or comparable large LV magnetics for power distribution, including production support. You know the difference between a transformer that looks good on paper and one that can be consistently built.

You understand three-phase power systems and connections — Delta/Wye configurations and their downstream implications — at a working depth, not a textbook depth.

You have designed for harmonic loading and K-factor applications in data center, UPS, rectifier, or comparable non-linear load environments.

You are comfortable with the full scope of construction details: conductor and core material selection, insulation systems, clearances and creepage, spacers and ducting, bracing strategy, lead and termination design, and varnish and impregnation approach.

You are proficient with standard engineering documentation tools and Microsoft Office — Excel for calculations, Word and PowerPoint for communication and reports.

Experience with transformer design software is expected, and familiarity with specialized transformer design tools used in the industry is a plus.

Differentiators That Will Make You Stand Out

Medium-voltage transformer design experience for data center infrastructure applications is a meaningful differentiator for this role.

Experience with advanced electrical testing — including partial discharge or impulse-related concepts — or with contributing to test facility planning and layout is highly valued.

Familiarity with reactive magnetics — line reactors, harmonic-mitigating reactors, short-circuit current-limiting reactors, air-core reactors, DC link inductors or high-power DC chokes — is a strong bonus.

Exposure to IEEE, IEC, and UL standards in transformer programs, and experience working within data center power equipment ecosystems including UPS environments, switchgear, and medium-voltage distribution, rounds out an exceptional candidate profile.

Why This Role

The data center power market is one of the strongest growth sectors in electrical infrastructure right now, and dry-type transformer design expertise that intersects with it is genuinely hard to find. This is a role where your specialized knowledge is valued — not commoditized — and where the work you produce has direct impact on product quality and manufacturing capability.

Remote. Full ownership. Real engineering work.

Placed by Foster Conner International

Foster Conner International is a boutique executive search firm specializing exclusively in director-level and above placements within electrical infrastructure and power equipment manufacturing — transformer OEMs, switchgear, substations, e-houses, and data center power. We have worked in this niche for over two decades and represent both candidates and clients with discretion.

To be considered for this position, contact us at fosterconner.com.