Senior Systems Engineer, Data Center Thermal & Fluid

Ecolab, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Vacation time

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Ecolab, Inc. is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to lead end-to-end CDU platform integrity across Electrical, Mechanical, and Control Systems.

You will own requirements, architecture, interfaces, and verification strategies to deliver a certifiable, production-ready system for next-generation coolant distribution solutions. The role emphasizes system-level decisions, technical readiness, and evidence of conformance while disciplines handle detailed design and subsystem verification.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or similar engineering/physics field.
• Minimum 8 years in electromechanical or controls-based product development.
• Experience owning system architecture, interfaces, or integration.
• Deep understanding of electromechanical systems including power, controls/PLC, hydraulics/fluids, sensing and safety circuits.
• Knowledge of system safety and risk methods (HARA, DFMEA, HAZOP/FA).
• Strong grounding in systems engineering fundamentals: requirements decomposition, interface definition, functional analysis, verification planning.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain CDU system technical baseline: requirements, architecture, behavior, interfaces, risks, configuration, integration strategy, verification evidence.
• Author and maintain system-level ERDs for clear requirement decomposition and traceability.
• Translate inputs into clear, testable, traceable system requirements across disciplines.
• Define and validate system use cases and operational scenarios to anchor requirements and verification.
• Lead cross-discipline trade studies and document architecture decisions with risk considerations.
• Lead system function integration testing, fault behavior validation, and use-case testing.
• Define verification and validation strategy and support certification and mass production launches.
• Review verification results and approve technical sufficiency with engineering teams.

Skills

System architecture

Electromechanical systems

Requirements decomposition

DFMEA/HAZOP

Verification planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering/Engineering-Physics

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Ecolab, Inc. is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to lead end-to-end CDU platform integrity across Electrical, Mechanical, and Control Systems.

You will own requirements, architecture, interfaces, and verification strategies to deliver a certifiable, production-ready system for next-generation coolant distribution solutions. The role emphasizes system-level decisions, technical readiness, and evidence of conformance while disciplines handle detailed design and subsystem verification.