Principal Food Systems Engineer

Marmon Food service Technologies, Inc.

As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway—you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.

Though you may not know us by name, you’ve most likely enjoyed meals and refreshments supported by our industry-leading brand portfolio. For decades, we’ve designed and manufactured food service equipment for some of the world’s biggest, most recognized consumer brands.

We are driven to innovate with a clear purpose in mind: revolutionizing the future of food service. Guided by our commitment to Doing Things That Matter, Leading at Every Level, and Winning a Better Way, we focus on delivering meaningful impact for our customers, our communities, and each other.

The Principal Food Systems Engineer is a senior technical expert responsible for advancing the scientific and engineering understanding of how food interacts with Marmon Food service Technologies equipment—including holding bins, toasters, heated platforms, and emerging food service technologies. This role applies food systems science, thermodynamics, modeling and simulation, mechanical design, hands-on prototyping, and validation to develop technologies that improve food quality, operational performance, and customer value.

As part of the Advanced R&D Technology Team, this role explores, incubates, and matures food-system technologies that support future product roadmaps, competitive differentiation, and improved customer outcomes.

Working closely with engineering, product management, and product teams, this individual identifies technology opportunities and translates complex food-quality challenges into predictive models, engineering solutions, measurable performance metrics, proof-of-concept technologies, and actionable technical insights that drive future product development. The role is expected to personally contribute throughout the innovation process via simulation, engineering design, CAD development, prototype creation, instrumentation, experimentation, and technical analysis that advance technologies from concept through feasibility and validation.

This is a highly hands-on Advanced R&D Principal Engineer role focused on technology exploration, concept development, proof-of-concept maturation, and solving complex challenges involving food systems, heat transfer, thermal management, and food-equipment interaction through scientific rigor, modeling and simulation, engineering analysis, and experimental development.

What You’ll DoDevelop and Apply Modeling, Simulation, and Analytical Methods Develop, validate, and apply analytical, numerical, and simulation models to evaluate concepts, test hypotheses, predict food-system behavior, and guide design decisions before physical prototyping and full-scale testing.

Analyze heat transfer, mass transfer, airflow, humidity behavior, contact conditions, and thermal response to better understand food-equipment interaction.

Integrate simulation results, experimental data, and observed food performance to guide design tradeoffs, reduce development risk, and accelerate concept maturation.

Drive Hands-On Concept Development and Proof-of-Concept Work Work directly in the front-end innovation phase to shape concepts, evaluate feasibility, and identify promising technical pathways.

Create mechanical concepts, CAD models, design layouts, prototype configurations, and experimental setups to support early-stage technology evaluation.

Independently design, build, instrument, test, and refine…