Product Performance Engineer

Take your next career step at ABB E‑Mobility with a global team that is driving the transformation of society and industry toward a more productive and sustainable future. We are looking for a Product Performance Engineer for our plant in San Giovanni Valdarno, with a strong focus on product behavior analysis, design robustness, and verification of design against applicable standards.

Your Responsibilities

• Analyze the performance and behavior of the global installed base of charging solutions, identifying trends, weak points, and improvement opportunities across hardware and software architectures
• Lead structured problem‑solving activities (8D / 5‑Why) with a strong emphasis on failure mechanisms, system interactions, and design robustness, working cross‑functionally to define effective containment, corrective, and preventive actions
• Support teams in verifying design solutions against standards requirements, clarifying interpretation, identifying potential mismatches between design intent and standards expectations, and translating standards constraints into actionable engineering inputs
• Drive product reliability and performance improvements through engineering analysis, design feedback, enhanced test coverage, and validation strategies, rather than compliance‑driven activities
• Support global development projects by contributing to design reviews, failure mode analysis, risk identification, and performance validation, ensuring lessons learned from the field are translated into better product designs
• Coach and support project teams in complex customer issue resolution, providing engineering insight on root causes, design trade‑offs, and performance limitations from early development phases through industrialization and field operation

Your Background

• Master’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Automation, Mechatronics, or Computer Engineering
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to understand complex systems involving power electronics, digital hardware, control, and software interactions
• 2+ years of experience in engineering, R&D, service, or product performance roles within electronic or electrical systems (automotive or energy systems experience is a plus)
• Solid interest in power electronics, circuit theory, system diagnostics, and laboratory measurements, with hands‑on or analytical exposure to real product behavior
• Good written and spoken English, with a collaborative and solution‑oriented engineering approach
• Availability for occasional international travel (approx. 5%)

What’s in it for you?

Work with the best specialists in their field, in a diverse environment with unparalleled global reach. Feel inspired by our fast growth. You will have the accountability to own your part in enabling a future of sustainable and efficient mobility. You can also count on a competitive compensation package in line with your capabilities and experience. Diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities are at the core of what we do. We celebrate different experiences and perspectives, and we aim to empower everyone in the creation of sustainable solutions for people all over the world. Our individual differences make us successful.

Compensation Package

The employment framework is based on the National Collective Labour Agreement (CCNL) for the Metalworking Industry, with an indicative level of C3/B2 and a minimum gross annual salary starting from € 31.000,00. The specific level and compensation package will be defined based on the outcome of the selection process (including experience, skills set, and role fit), in accordance with objective, transparent, and gender-neutral criteria, in line with pay equity and equal opportunity principles. The total compensation package will also includes a variable bonus linked to individual and company targets.

About ABB E-Mobility

ABB E-mobility is a world leader in EV charging technology and a partner of choice for the world’s biggest electric vehicle OEMs and nationwide EV charging network operators. With a strong R&D pipeline, our robust product portfolio of innovative holistic solutions – from grid to charge point and domestic installations to large fleet depots – means we are actively enabling the future of E-Mobility, not just predicting it.