Principal Engineer, Mechanical Engineering
About The Position
The Refrigerant Group in Carrier’s Mechanical Center of Excellence is seeking a motivated, results-oriented and experienced engineer to join our team based in East Syracuse, NY. As a Principal Engineer in the Refrigerant Group, you will be a key member of the team providing advanced refrigerant evaluation and development to Carrier’s global HVAC&R portfolio. Your primary responsibility will be to lead modeling-centered system technology evaluation and strategy development. In addition, you will participate in industry research and standards development for future refrigerants and products. You will collaborate with other technology experts, modeling and simulation experts, product design groups, supply chain partners, and others to develop new refrigerants and system technologies to improve the performance, cost, reliability, and sustainability of Carrier products.
Requirements
- Bachelors Engineering Degree in with 10+ year experience in engineering, or Master’s Engineering Degree with 7+ years experience in engineering, or PhD Engineering Degree with 4+ years experience in engineering.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledgeable in Thermodynamics with specific focus on vapor compression cycles for air conditioning and refrigeration
- Air conditioning system simulation capabilities
- Knowledgeable in refrigerant properties, both thermodynamic properties and flammability characteristics
- Software: IPM, EES, Refprop, Microsoft Office
- Knowledge of Refrigerant standards, system standards, and building codes, especially related to flammable refrigerants.
- Project planning and management experience.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate and develop future refrigerants, including Natural and ultra- Low GWP synthetic refrigerants, system performance enhancements, and flammability mitigation strategies to develop Carrier refrigerant and technology strategy to ensure regulatory compliance.
- System modeling and optimization
- Technology and refrigerant evaluation
- System performance verification testing
- Management of refrigerant properties data base and REFPROP support data
- Recommendation of technology strategies to support product strategies
- Interact and share learnings with engineering counterpoints for other products, and with product development engineers.
- Develop and execution of project plans.
Benefits
- Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision
- Wellness incentives
- Retirement Benefits
- Paid vacation days, up to 15 days
- paid sick days, up to 5 days
- paid personal leave, up to 5 days
- paid holidays, up to 13 days
- birth and adoption leave
- parental leave
- family and medical leave
- bereavement leave
- jury duty leave
- military leave
- purchased vacation
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
- Health Savings Account
- Health Care Spending Account
- Dependent Care Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
