Trane Technologies

At Trane TechnologiesTM and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King®, we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. We're a team that dares to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities. We believe in a better future when we uplift others and enable our people to thrive at work and at home. We boldly go.

What’s in it for you:

Do you want to help save the planet? Do you want to directly contribute to an organization committed to reduce its customer carbon footprint by 1 Gigaton of Carbon Dioxide? As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, it’s our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, sustainability is not just how we do business, it is our business. Sustainability is at the center of our strategy and influences how we make every decision.

Our Thermo King business develops transport HVAC and refrigeration products that provide temperature control solutions to help our customers efficiently deliver cargo with confidence. Using our range of transport refrigeration solutions, our customers deliver essential cargo, like food and pharmaceuticals, all while maintaining the critical temperature control-chain.

We are hiring an experienced Controls Embedded Software Architect, who will establish the modern software architectures and development practices for Thermo King’s products and oversee development of the next generation of solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for the functional, technical, and integration architectures for software solutions, along with integrations with Thermo King’s internal systems, and the systems and devices of our customers, dealers, and partners. You will collaborate with the architecture team and other team members to define how great controls solutions should work and then oversee the development of those solutions.

Thrive at work and at home:

• Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives – WE DARE TO CARE!
• Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• 401K match up to 6%, plus an additional 2% core contribution = up to 8% company contribution.
• Paid time off, including in support of volunteer and parental leave needs.
• Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.
• Learn more about our benefits here!

Where is the work:

This position has been designated as a Hybrid work schedule with work performed onsite 3 days each week in Bloomington, MN.

What you will do:

• Technical expert for software architecture technology stack definition, leading analysis and improvements to design simplicity, modularity & re-use to provide software capabilities across Thermo King products
• Create and govern architecture standards, cybersecurity, and modularity component roadmaps across product models, platforms, and regions with key engagement activity with Product management, Product Platform engineering, Telematics, and Controls teams
• Evaluate and select appropriate software technologies and platforms for solution development. Lead tradeoff analysis and recommendations, preparing and presenting architectural reports to senior management
• Create software design process standard work guidelines, templates/tools (ie, system diagrams, calculation spreadsheets, error checking, etc…) to improve product development cycle time, promote consistency across teams, and to enable rapid innovation with a high degree of reuse
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams, supporting the design, review, and implementation of software components
• Ensure software meets all functional, security, regulatory (e.g., cybersecurity compliance), and quality requirements for industrial and transportation environments

Key Competencies & Skillset

• Proven experience architecting embedded controls solutions, including Embedded Linux (e.g., Yocto) and RTOS platforms (e.g., FreeRTOS, Zephyr Project, MicroC/OS-II)
• Experience in embedded software development and coding in various languages (e.g., C, C++, C#, Rust, Python)
• Experience with industrial connectivity protocols such as CAN, J1939, Modbus, MQTT, OPC-UA, secure IP-based protocols, and Automotive Ethernet (100Base-T1, 10Base-T1S)
• Excellent knowledge of UML, SysML, or MBSE for system modeling and design
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, pub/sub messaging patterns, and distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI), and experience with automated testing frameworks (Google Test, CppUTest, Catch2)

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering or related technical field with 10 years of experience
• Preferred that have experience as an embedded architect
• Strong organizational, leadership, and communication skills for working in cross-disciplinary teams (software, hardware, systems engineering)
• Multi-region travel up to 5% may be required

Compensation:

Base Pay Range: $120,000- $160,000

Additional Compensation: Total compensation for this role also will include an incentive plan.

Disclaimer: This base pay range is based on US national averages. Actual base pay could be a result of seniority, merit, geographic location where the work is performed.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.

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