Sr Advanced Hardware Engr

Ideation Leader – Fire Portfolio

As Fire Ideation Leader you will be responsible for driving innovation, productivity, and value creation across the Fire Portfolio by identifying, developing, and advancing high-impact opportunities that improve profitability, product competitiveness, quality, and supply chain resilience. This role leads the portfolio ideation strategy, manages a pipeline of cost and growth initiatives, and works closely with Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Product Management, and Finance teams to convert ideas into executable projects.

As a strategic leader and catalyst for cross-functional collaboration, the Fire Ideation Leader facilitates ideation events, governs opportunity development, drives seedbed creation, and ensures effective progression of opportunities from concept through execution. The role is accountable for maintaining a healthy ideation pipeline, establishing best practices, monitoring portfolio performance, and enabling continuous improvement across the Fire business to deliver measurable business impact and sustainable growth.

You will work closely with Fire Portfolio leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to establish long-term innovation strategies, maximize business impact, and deliver measurable results across the portfolio.

This position is based in Bangalore and follows a 4/1 hybrid work schedule. The role requires travel to engineering, manufacturing, and customer sites for approximately 10–20% of engagements, typically involving 2–5-day visits and averaging one to three trips per year.