What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Embedded Engineer position at Danfoss?
The Impact You'll Make
At Danfoss Turbocor, you’ll help power the world’s most energy-efficient HVAC systems. As a Senior Embedded Engineer, your work directly supports cutting-edge oil-free, magnetic bearing compressor technology that reduces energy consumption and carbon emissions globally.
In this role, you won’t just write code—you’ll influence how advanced embedded systems are designed, tested, and delivered. You’ll work across hardware and software boundaries, shaping solutions that are critical to performance, reliability, and customer success.
This is a hands-on opportunity to grow your expertise across the full software development lifecycle, while mentoring others and contributing to innovative technologies that make a meaningful difference.
What You’ll Be Doing
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.
At Danfoss Turbocor, you’ll help power the world’s most energy-efficient HVAC systems. As a Senior Embedded Engineer, your work directly supports cutting-edge oil-free, magnetic bearing compressor technology that reduces energy consumption and carbon emissions globally.
In this role, you won’t just write code—you’ll influence how advanced embedded systems are designed, tested, and delivered. You’ll work across hardware and software boundaries, shaping solutions that are critical to performance, reliability, and customer success.
This is a hands-on opportunity to grow your expertise across the full software development lifecycle, while mentoring others and contributing to innovative technologies that make a meaningful difference.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and contribute across the full SDLC—from requirements and design to development, testing, and deployment of embedded compressor control software
- Build and enhance real-time embedded systems and interfaces across industrial communication buses, configuration tools, and automated test platforms
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to solve complex software and hardware challenges and improve system performance
- Drive best practices in software development, including documentation, traceability, configuration management, and test validation
- Provide technical mentorship and leadership, helping teammates grow while advancing cybersecurity and compliance in embedded systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 5 years of experience in C/C development, including at least 3 years in embedded systems programming
- Hands-on experience with debugging, troubleshooting, and development tools such as Code Composer Studio, Eclipse, or similar IDEs
- Strong understanding of data structures, object-oriented programming, and Git-based version control
- Ability to work across multiple environments (embedded, Linux, Windows) and adapt to evolving technical needs
- Strong communication skills and a proactive, problem-solving mindset with a passion for continuous learning
- 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 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.