Applications Engineer (HVAC Controls)

Location: St Paul, Minnesota, United States; hybrid schedule with onsite work Monday through Thursday and flexible work location on Fridays. Travel up to 20% is required, including customer visits, field events, and job site work.

Annual base salary: $105,228.33–$168,700.00.

Company

hirify.global develops sustainable, efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation through its Trane and Thermo King businesses.

What you will do

• Serve as a subject matter expert for HVAC controls fulfillment, system applications, interfaces, and third-party integrations.
• Define functional requirements and design, develop, and deploy custom applications, control logic, sequences of operation, and application software across supervisory and edge platforms.
• Establish application testing strategies using system modeling, simulation tools, automated testing frameworks, laboratory testing, and Hardware-in-the-Loop testing.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, segment, sales, and operations teams to evaluate feasibility, resolve technical issues, and support commercialization.
• Support field trials, pilot deployments, customer projects, site rollouts, and real-world validation of new HVAC applications.
• Prepare engineering bulletins, application guides, best practices, and project specifications, and present technical topics to internal and external audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, controls engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related technical field; extensive directly relevant field experience may substitute for the degree.
• 8+ years of experience in building automation systems, HVAC controls execution, or system application engineering.
• Hands-on experience delivering HVAC controls projects from initial handoff through system turnover is strongly desired.
• Ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical audiences and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Strong project management, analysis, problem resolution, judgment, decision-making, and teamwork skills.
• Ability to work onsite Monday through Thursday in St Paul, Minnesota, and travel up to 20%.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with software development principles, scripting languages such as Python or JavaScript, and automation workflow logic.
• Experience with multi-protocol gateway integrations, API-based smart building connections, and cloud-to-edge BAS network architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Health insurance and holistic wellness programs are available from day one for employees and families.
• Family-building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption or surrogacy assistance.
• Paid time off includes vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave, volunteer leave, and parental leave options.
• 401(k) matching, educational and training programs, tuition assistance, and student debt support are provided.
• The role contributes to sustainability-focused climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation.