Senior Application Engineer - Chillers

Description

You'd join a global technology company with more than 60 years of history, more than 290 locations, and product lines spanning home appliances, media entertainment, vehicles, and eco-friendly solutions.

The role is a Chiller Application Engineer position that supports selecting, applying, and selling chillers and heat pumps across the U.S. market. You'd be the technical go-to for customers, consultants, sales representatives, and internal teams, making sure equipment choices and system designs fit customer needs and what the products can actually do.

You'd work daily with sales, product management, factory engineering, building automation, and service teams on project delivery, product line work, technical documentation, and customer engineering support.

Responsibilities

• Handle application engineering for chillers and heat pumps, covering equipment selection, sizing, and performance analysis.
• Assess project inputs such as loads, operating conditions, flow rates, pressure drop, noise limits, electrical characteristics, and system layouts.
• Build competitive equipment selections with the company's approved software and engineering tools.
• Check chilled water, condenser water, heat pump, and hydronic designs for compatibility with the equipment.
• Give consultants, contractors, owners, and sales teams technical recommendations and application guidance.
• Read plans, specifications, and codes to produce submittals, technical responses, compliance matrices, and equipment schedules.
• Support building automation integration, including controls, sequencing, BACnet and Modbus communication, and plant operating strategies.
• Work with factory engineering, product management, and sales to solve project-specific issues and suggest product improvements.
• Collect customer feedback and market needs to inform product development and future enhancements.
• Review and update engineering manuals, installation guides, application guides, catalogs, and product literature.
• Contribute to new product introductions, engineering changes, feature upgrades, and lifecycle management of the product line.
• Create and deliver technical training, presentations, webinars, and application guidance for customers, sales staff, representatives, and industry partners.
• Support project handoff, installation, commissioning, and investigations into performance problems.
• Investigate field issues with service and factory engineering to find root causes and get them resolved.
• Travel when needed for customer meetings, jobsite reviews, training, and product activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a closely related engineering field.
• 3+ years of commercial HVAC experience in application engineering, consulting engineering, technical sales support, or chiller system engineering.
• Working knowledge of refrigeration, heat transfer, hydronics, pumps, controls, and variable-speed HVAC equipment.
• Ability to read plans, specifications, piping diagrams, sequences of operation, and applicable HVAC codes and standards.
• Hands-on experience running engineering calculations and applying them to commercial HVAC systems.
• Working proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, equipment selection software, and engineering documentation tools.
• Strong skills in technical writing, presentations, problem-solving, and project management.
• Ability to juggle several projects and work well across cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to travel within the U.S. and, occasionally, internationally.
• Preferred: experience with air-cooled and water-cooled chillers, air-to-water heat pumps, centrifugal chillers, or inverter-driven compressors.
• Preferred: experience with chiller plant design, sequencing, building automation systems, energy analysis, or life-cycle cost evaluation.
• Preferred: knowledge of ASHRAE, AHRI, and commercial HVAC industry standards.
• Preferred: experience supporting data centers, mission-critical facilities, healthcare, higher education, industrial, or large commercial projects.
• Preferred: experience working with manufacturer engineering teams, product development, technical training, or new product introductions.

Conditions

Pay range: $90,000 - $110,000 USD.

Role covers the U.S. market and involves travel as described in the responsibilities.

The company provides equal employment opportunities.

Benefits

• Join a growing chiller business and help bring cooling and heating products to customers across North America. You'd take on complex HVAC projects, work with global engineering teams, and help shape the company's commercial chiller and heat pump lineup.
• No-cost premiums for you and your eligible dependents on medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
• Automatic enrollment in a 401(k) plan with several investment options, with company matching contributions that vest immediately.
• Generous paid time off, including company holidays and a combined bank of paid sick and vacation time.
• Performance-based short-term incentives, which vary by role.
• Confidential mental health resources for you and your family, plus incentives for personal fitness goals.
• Family support, including paid parental leave and help for families raising children with learning, social, behavioral, or developmental challenges.
• Group life and disability insurance at group rates.
• Access to relevant benefit programs through the company's partner agencies.