Senior Systems Engineer, Turbocor Compressors

Danfoss GmbH; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support to Tallahassee

Annual bonus

Paid vacation

Pension plans

Personal insurance

Job summary

Danfoss Turbocor is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design and integrate advanced HVAC and compressor technologies at the Tallahassee, FL site. You will shape system architectures and ensure cross-disciplinary alignment across software, electronics, and mechanical domains to deliver high-performance, reliable solutions.

Responsibilities include requirements translation, validation leadership, and driving risk-based design validation using System FMEA while collaborating with global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or post graduate degree in Engineering is required.
• Detail orientation and self-motivation are important.

Responsibilities

• Design and define system architectures across mechanical, electrical, and software components.
• Translate customer and product needs into clear system requirements and align engineering teams.
• Lead validation and verification activities for system performance and reliability.
• Drive risk analysis and System FMEA to improve product quality.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to ensure successful integration and delivery.

Education

Bachelor or post graduate degree of Science in Engineering

Job description

Senior Systems Engineer, Turbocor Compressors

Senior Systems Engineer, Turbocor Compressors

Req ID: 49830 Job Location: Tallahassee, FL, US Employment Type: Full Time Segment: Danfoss Climate Solutions Segment Job Category: R&D, Technology and Engineering Work Location Type: On-site Job Description

The Impact You'll Make

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will shape how advanced HVAC and compressor technologies come together to perform reliably in real-world environments. Your work will directly influence the performance, safety, and efficiency of complex systems used by customers around the world. You will play a critical role in connecting disciplines—software, electronics, and mechanical systems—ensuring that every component works seamlessly as part of a complete solution. From early technology development through product launch and lifecycle support, your contributions will help bring innovative, high-performance products to market. This is an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies such as turbo machinery, magnetic bearings, and integrated power electronics, while driving system-level excellence that makes a measurable difference for customers and sustainability. This position is located at our Turbocor Global Headquarters in Tallahassee, Florida.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design and define system architectures to ensure seamless integration across mechanical, electrical, and software components
• Translate customer and product needs into clear system requirements, ensuring alignment across engineering teams
• Lead validation and verification activities to confirm system performance, reliability, and compliance
• Drive risk analysis and system FMEA processes to identify issues early and improve product quality
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to ensure successful system integration and product delivery

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor or post graduate degree of Science in Engineering
• Minimum 3+ years engineering experience in HVAC/chillers/compressor, systems engineering, or mechatronic design.

• Must be detail oriented and self-motivated
• Relocation to Tallahassee, FL is required

Preferred qualifications

• HVAC industry experience preferable centrifugal compressor and chiller design and operation
• Experience using System FMEA to drive risk-based design validation and testing
• Turbo machinery experience

What You'll Get from Us

At Danfoss, you’ll be part of a company driven by purpose—engineering solutions that enable a better, more sustainable future. You’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative technologies while growing your expertise in a collaborative, global environment. We offer:

• Opportunities to work on cutting-edge HVAC and turbo machinery systems
• A culture that values learning, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement
• Collaboration with diverse, cross-functional teams across the globe
• Support for your professional growth and career development
• Relocation support to Tallahassee, Florida, where you’ll be based onsite

• We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
• You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
• We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
• You’ll receive benefits like annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about—we think they’re pretty great.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.

Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.

Our solutions are used in areas such as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, marine, and on- and off-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for data centers, renewable energy, energy storage, heat recovery, as well as contribute to district energy solutions for cities.

Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned and employs over 39,000 people. We create long-term value for our customers in more than 100 countries with a global footprint of around 100 factories.