Senior​/Lead Residential HVAC System & Application Engineer

Senior/Lead Residential HVAC System & Application Engineer

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We are a global climate technologies company engineered for sustainability. We create efficient residential, commercial, and industrial spaces through HVACR technologies, protect temperature-sensitive goods throughout the cold chain, and bring comfort to people worldwide. Best‑in‑class engineering, design, and manufacturing combine with category‑leading brands in compression, controls, software, and monitoring solutions to build next‑generation climate technology.

Whether you are a professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring your first opportunity, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, we have opportunities to innovate, be challenged, and make an impact. Join our team and start your journey today.

Reporting to the Director of Residential New Product Development, the Senior/Lead Residential HVAC System & Application Engineer aligns residential compression design, testing, and qualification practices with practical HVAC system design, modeling, and operational conventions. The individual works closely with compression development teams to ensure that products are system‑optimized, focusing on world‑class performance, efficiency, quality, and reliability during both normal and abnormal system operation.

• Serve as the subject matter expert for residential HVAC system knowledge, closing competency gaps within the broader compressor engineering community.
• Collaborate with Product Development teams to build and maintain strong technical comprehension of current and future compression products, considering how designs are affected by system architecture and normal/abnormal operation.
• Provide advanced technical expertise and guidance from a system application perspective, supporting application FMEAs to ensure compressor designs consider all system operating nuances.
• Generate application guidance, technical documentation, and training materials for internal teams, contractors, and channel partners based on anticipated field operation.
• Collaborate with Reliability and Quality Engineering teams to improve and optimize life‑testing protocols based on real‑world system operating profiles.
• Conduct application testing, simulations, and performance evaluations using HVAC system modeling tools and software.
• Stay informed of existing and emerging residential compressor and system design, qualification, and rating standards & regulatory requirements (UL, AHRI, ASHRAE, etc.).
• Engage customers, particularly engineering staff, to rationalize value assumptions and obtain feedback on applicability of future technologies.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, preferably Mechanical Engineering.
• At least 10 years of experience in HVAC system design.
• Detailed understanding of HVAC system design and practical application in field installations.
• Good understanding of computer simulation tools and theory applied to HVAC system design.
• Understanding of how positive displacement compressors’ reliability is impacted by application scenarios.
• Excellent critical thinking and structured problem‑solving skills.
• Effective collaborator in a team environment.
• Ability to quickly and efficiently understand and organize information necessary to make engineering decisions.
• Minimal travel (~5%) to customers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• 5 years of North American residential ducted split system design experience.
• Master’s Degree.

This role is hybrid eligible with the requirement to be in office at least three days per week. Colleagues are expected to demonstrate a collaboration first mindset and be flexible to adjust hybrid days or be onsite all week based on business needs.

Our Sidney, OH facility is located within driving distance to Dayton, Troy, and Columbus. The area offers a low cost of living, excellent school systems, and low crime rates,…