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Design Engineer

API Heat Transfer
API Heat Transfer Salary
Buffalo, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 9/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/23/2026
As a global leader in the design and manufacture of a wide range of specialty heat exchangers and heat transfer solutions, API Heat Transfer has a legacy of industry-leading performance that can be traced back more than 140 years. Throughout our history, we’ve built a corporate culture based on reliability and superior performance - from our innovative technologies to the people behind them. Experience has taught us that design and engineering expertise, supported by professionals who have a passion for their work, can bring about only one result: the ability to provide the right solutions for our customers.

API Heat Transfer is seeking talented Design Engineers!

At API we take our culture transformation seriously! To help find the best fit for our positions and organization, we ask that you complete our 10-minute Culture Index Survey. Simply follow the link after submitting your application to help us use our interview time to dive deeper into your job behaviors and work history. https://go.cultureindex.com/s/7Y0awCvsZZ

What We Offer You:

  • Opportunity to learn from and contribute to a premier, global engineering team!
  • Be part of leading-edge technology for the heat transfer industry
  • Ability to impact customers across multiple industries
  • Full health & welfare benefits, 401(k), PTO, and developmental opportunities!
  • Pay range: Min $65,000 - Max $85,000

What Can Our Location Offer You:

  • Only 20 minutes from the beautiful Buffalo waterfront and 45 minutes from Niagara Falls
  • In house market style cafeteria with plenty of healthy selections
  • Buffalo is known for our wide range of choices for food and beverages from our famous Buffalo Wings and Beef on Weck to several micro-breweries and distilleries scattered across the region

What You Will Do:

The Design Engineer will support strategic and ongoing customer engagements by providing designs, calculations, drawings, BOMs, etc. for both conventional and complex product initiatives.

  • Use ASME code calculations to fulfill complex customer specifications, as well as develop calculation tools for applications where calculation tools do not exist
  • Prepare simple and complex layouts for components and subassemblies with focus on designing for cost and manufacturability
  • Partner with manufacturing, purchasing, application engineering, and sales to deliver customer projects
  • Support the team with validating each other’s output, analysis of results, and other efforts to produce world-class products
  • Contribute to setting project team priorities and provide technical leadership
  • Collaborate with internal teams to construct project scope and determine costs and manufacturing feasibility

What You Bring:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering (BSME)
    • or Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering Technology (BSMET)
  • Proficiency in Solidworks
  • Collaborative, analytical, and solution focused
  • Experience in a Lean Manufacturing environment desired
  • Experience in ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel design a plus
    • Specializing in Heat Exchangers preferred.
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Salary : $65,000

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