Senior/Principal Energy Systems Engineer

Remote or Brooklyn, NY or Boston, MA

What we're looking for

Snofox is looking for a Senior or Principal Energy Systems Engineer to model refrigeration processes and derive insights to improve performance. You will be joining as an early member of the Energy Systems Engineering team and will shape everything that comes next at SnoFox. Your past experience should include a track record of generating insights from thermodynamic and heat transfer models.

What you’ll do

  • Build digital twin models of industrial refrigeration cycles, validate your own work, and guide junior engineers

  • Ideate and develop automated recommendation engines to derive insights from the models and recommend improvements to customers

  • Mentor junior engineers and demonstrate best practices in group reviews

  • Coordinate with our Software Engineers to facilitate the smooth flow of process data into our models and process insights out of our models

  • Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of colleagues to help set the direction of the product

  • Meet directly with customers to understand their needs and design solutions that solve their problems

  • Help establish and guide our team’s culture, tech stack and development practices

Qualifications

Required

  • 4-year engineering degree or other including thermodynamics (e.g. ME/AE/Physics) and 5+ years of energy system modeling experience

  • Comprehensive understanding of fundamentals of refrigeration component and cycle performance including compressors, heat exchangers, COP, etc. and the tradeoffs of various methodologies

  • Deep appreciation for conservation of mass and energy and ability to apply them widely

  • Experience modeling performance using commercial tools like Ebsilon Pro, IPSEpro, EES, or your own custom-written tools

Bonus points

  • Experience at an early stage startup (<5 person engineering team)

  • Expertise with the Ebsilon Pro suite

  • Expertise in Python and using it for data analysis and optimization

  • Experience in the refrigeration industry

Salary and Benefits

  • Salary range: $120,000 – 160,000, dependent on experience

  • Eligibility for equity under the company’s employee incentive plan

  • Health insurance with 80% of premium covered for employees and dependents

  • Unlimited vacation / sick leave

  • Regular company on-sites to get to know your colleagues in Boston, Maryland, Delaware, Colorado and California.