Staff Engineer, Modeling & Controls Engineering

About Carrier

Carrier Global Corporation is a global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life.

We are seeking a talented, highly motivated, and results-driven Staff Controls Engineer with expertise in control systems specification, design, architecture, programming, and verification. This role focuses on delivering innovative and robust control solutions across a broad range of HVAC and refrigeration systems. The Staff Controls Engineer will work with global, cross‑disciplinary teams to design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and support control systems throughout the full lifecycle—from conceptual design and model‑based development to lab validation and field‑trial support.

This position offers the opportunity to engage with multiple business units and contribute to a diverse product portfolio. Interested candidates should be passionate about developing high‑quality control systems, enjoy collaborative environments, and be driven to deliver solutions that enhance customer experience.

Fully onsite. Primary locations:
Kennesaw, GA
: 1025 Cobb Place Boulevard, 30144;
Syracuse, NY
: 6304 Carrier Parkway East, 13057.

• Lead the development and delivery of production‑ready control solutions by ensuring compliance with customer and technical requirements, industry standards, and best practices.
• Drive project execution by setting clear technical goals, managing timelines, and coordinating teams.
• Mitigate risks, align stakeholders, and ensure on‑time, high‑quality delivery.
• Support system‑level requirement definition and drive low‑level control requirement decomposition.
• Perform dynamic analysis of nonlinear systems in development of control algorithms, including system identification, cont rollability, robustness, stability, and optimization.
• Support the development and calibration of physics‑based plant models.
• Utilize models for design exploration, control system analysis, verification, and validation.
• Develop and execute unit‑tests and integration tests for control systems.
• Perform hands‑on testing in a psychrometric laboratory and analyze results to refine plant model fidelity and control algorithms.
• Apply best‑in‑class strategies to push testing further upstream in the development lifecycle (MIL/SIL/HIL).
• Support strategic initiatives to improve organizational quality and efficiency through technology advancement and process improvement.

• B.S. in Electrical, Control Systems, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering with 7+ years of controls system experience, OR M.S. or Ph.D. in the same fields with 5+ years of controls system experience.

• Proficient knowledge of controls engineering foundations, including feedback control, linear/nonlinear control, multivariable control, system identification, and optimization.
• Proficient in the use of MATLAB‑based toolsets to design, implement, and test embedded controls algorithms.
• Experience with industrial control applications.
• Excellent communication skills and a proven track record of delivering results through effective teamwork.
• Experience with vapor‑compression cycles, including heat exchangers and turbo machinery compression technologies.
• Experience in requirements management and system integration, specifically test strategies across model‑in‑the‑loop (MIL), software‑in‑the‑loop (SIL), and hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HIL) domains.
• Strong technical writing skills with ability to produce clear, concise documentation.
• Experience with software development lifecycle practices, including version control, change management, and release management.
• Familiarity with PLC‑based or embedded control architectures.
• Familiar with system optimization techniques and their application to modeling and system design.
• Knowledge of acausal modeling languages such as Modelica.

The annual salary for this position is between $96,000.00 and $, depending on skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications.

Employees are eligible for benefits including health care (medical, dental, vision), wellness incentives,…