What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Application Engineer position at Danfoss?
The Impact You'll Make
As a Product Application Engineer, you’ll work with one of the industry’s most extensive and innovative portfolios of hydraulic valves and pumps. Your role will be to identify the best-fit products and customized solutions for our customers — helping them solve complex technical challenges with precision and creativity.
You’ll join a great team that thrives on shared ownership and technical excellence, working in a dynamic and agile environment with diverse tasks and close collaboration across sales, operations, and engineering.
What You’ll Be Doing
Responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
Required (basic) qualifications
If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.
Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.
Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities.
Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 39.360 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories.
As a Product Application Engineer, you’ll work with one of the industry’s most extensive and innovative portfolios of hydraulic valves and pumps. Your role will be to identify the best-fit products and customized solutions for our customers — helping them solve complex technical challenges with precision and creativity.
You’ll join a great team that thrives on shared ownership and technical excellence, working in a dynamic and agile environment with diverse tasks and close collaboration across sales, operations, and engineering.
What You’ll Be Doing
Responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Support customers with expert guidance on hydraulic valve and pump solutions.
- Translate technical capabilities into clear value propositions together with our sales team.
- Contribute to application-specific solutions and product customization to match our customers’ exact needs.
- Participate in product validation, root cause analysis, and technical troubleshooting.
Required (basic) qualifications
- Fluent in English (spoken and written). Other Languages are an advantage.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or similar).
- Experience with hydraulic valves (e.g., spool valves and/or cartridge valves) and/or open-circuit pump systems.
- Hands-on experience with hydraulic components, validation testing, and failure/root cause analysis is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with CAN-based communication systems and PLUS 1® software is a plus.
- A strong team player who thrives in collaborative, cross-functional settings.
- Customer-oriented and passionate about solving problems in real-world applications.
- A proactive mindset and ability to drive tasks independently.
- Structured and comfortable navigating process-oriented environments.
- We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
- You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
- We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
- You’ll receive benefits like 13th salary, annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about—we think they’re pretty great.
If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.
Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.
Our solutions are used in such areas as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, automotive, marine, and off- and on-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, as well as district-energy infrastructure for cities.
Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned, employing more than 39.360 people, serving customers in more than 100 countries through a global footprint of 95 factories.