Senior Engineer

At Trane TechnologiesTM and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King®, we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what's possible for a sustainable world. We're a team that dares to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities. We believe in a better future when we uplift others and enable our people to thrive at work and at home. We boldly go.

Job Summary:

This Senior Engineer, System Modeling will build system models of electrified transport refrigeration devices to support the development of reliable & efficient market-leading Thermo King products. This role will also lead advancement of Thermo King's system modeling capabilities, working in collaboration with global Engineering teams.

Core Job Responsibilities (others may be added):

• Plan, execute and supervise modeling and simulation efforts using credible system and component models of appropriate fidelity. In addition to develop and deploy models at the system level, also support development of models in the area of refrigeration, electrical, controls, power electronics, and related components. Provide guidance for decision-making. Advise and collaborate with product platform, controls, component, test, data science, component vendors and other stakeholders throughout model lifecycle.
• Working with global teams, external partners and key stakeholders, prioritize and lead initiatives for modeling capability improvement aligned with product roadmap and business needs. Accelerate and mature application and impact of Model-Based Systems Engineering to product development.
• Provide mentoring and technical coaching to grow global team skills and capability in system modeling. Be an enthusiastic advocate of model-driven engineering. Stay current with emerging trends and advancements. Develop into a recognized technical authority in your field.
• 10% overnight travel is anticipated.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and at least 5 years of experience with R&D, modeling and/or testing of refrigeration and other physical systems is required.
• Master's Degree or PhD in Engineering is strongly preferred.

Key competencies

• Significant modeling of refrigeration, electrical, controls, power electronics, and/or related physical systems, both at the system and component levels are required.
• Experience and comfort with bridging and integrating multiple subsystems, physics domains, tools, and varying model detail/fidelity at the system level is required, or the desire and demonstrated ability to learn quickly.
• Experience with leading and supervising system model development and related deliverables for large product development projects, involving close coordination with multiple stakeholder and support teams, is required, or the desire and demonstrated ability to learn quickly.
• Experience with common industry standard physics-based modeling tools like Dymola/Modelica, Simscape, Amesim, GT Suite, or EES, and commonly used numerical methods and related modeling processes, is required, or the demonstrated ability to learn quickly.
• Experience with common scientific computing tools and languages for preprocessing, postprocessing, analysis, and automation activities, such as MATLAB, R, Python, or Julia is required.
• Experience using version control tools for model development, such as git or SVN, and using web-based software development tools, such as Github, Azure Devops, or other related tools is a strong plus.
• Experience with system engineering principles and MBSE, including formal system engineering modeling languages (SysML or UML) is a plus.
• Experience with design space exploration and optimization tools such as HEEDS or modeFrontier is a strong plus.
• Experience with modern controls principles, controls modeling, and Simulink is a strong plus.
• Excellent communication, teamwork and time management skills are required.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.