Senior Systems Engineer - CDU & Thermal Architecture

Ecolab, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401k

Pension plans

Vacation 12 days

Education assistance

Job summary

Ecolab, Inc. seeks an experienced Systems Engineer to join the CDU team, delivering end-to-end technical integrity of CoolIT CDU platforms for hyperscale data centers and HPC systems.

This role bridges Electrical, Mechanical, and PLC disciplines to ensure requirements are clear and interfaces remain stable. This technical leadership role focuses on system architecture, interfaces, integration, and verification, with discipline teams handling detailed subsystem design and verification to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering or similar Engineering/Physics based disciplines.
• Minimum of 8 years in electromechanical or controls-based product development.
• Demonstrated experience owning system architecture, interfaces, or integration.
• Deep understanding of electromechanical systems including interactions between electrical power, controls/PLC, hydraulics/fluids, sensing, and safety circuits.
• Knowledge of system safety and risk methods including HARA, DFMEA, HAZOP/FMEA interfaces, mitigation verification, and residual-risk communication.
• Strong grounding in systems engineering fundamentals & tools: requirements decomposition, interface definition, functional analysis, and verification planning.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the CDU system technical baseline, including requirements, architecture, operational behavior, cross discipline interfaces, system risks, integrated configuration, integration strategy, and system verification evidence.
• Author and maintain system level ERDs to ensure clear requirement decomposition, traceability, and allocation across Electrical, Mechanical, and Control Systems domains.
• Establish and maintain the requirements source register and technical assumptions log; translate inputs into clear, testable system requirements.
• Provide technical clarity at discipline boundaries through definition of control interface ownership and integration across discipline interfaces.
• Define and validate system use cases and operational scenarios to anchor requirements, sequencing, and verification.
• Lead cross discipline trade studies and maintain architecture and technical decision records; evaluate system performance, reliability, safety, compliance, cost, schedule, manufacturability, serviceability, scalability, and customer impacts.

Skills

System architecture

Interfaces

Integration

Requirements management

System verification

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering

Master’s or PhD

Job description

Ecolab, Inc. seeks an experienced Systems Engineer to join the CDU team, delivering end-to-end technical integrity of CoolIT CDU platforms for hyperscale data centers and HPC systems.

This role bridges Electrical, Mechanical, and PLC disciplines to ensure requirements are clear and interfaces remain stable. This technical leadership role focuses on system architecture, interfaces, integration, and verification, with discipline teams handling detailed subsystem design and verification to