Staff Controls Engineer

Job Number: 7450

External Description:

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter, and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

About the Role:

The Staff Controls Engineer is focused on delivering innovative and robust designs for equipment control.  We serve the entire Carrier product portfolio, offering a unique opportunity to engage with multiple business units across the company.  We support the design, development, test, troubleshooting, and maintenance of the controls within the system, offering the controls engineer experience in everything from conceptual design to lab testing and field trial support.  We do all of this with a passion for delighting our customers, having fun, and showing genuine respect for our teams.

We are seeking a talented, highly motivated, and results-driven engineer with expertise in control systems specification, design, architecture, programming, and verification. The Staff Controls Engineer will work with global, cross-disciplinary teams to design and qualify control solutions for a full range of HVAC and refrigeration systems – with a strong emphasis on model-based design methods.  If this is you, get in touch with us!

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and delivery of robust, 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 non-linear systems in development of control algorithms including system identification, controllability, 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 & execute unit-tests & integration tests for control system
• Perform hands-on testing in psychrometric laboratory and analyze results to direct refinements to 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with 7+ years of controls system experience

OR

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Engineering with 5+ years of controls system experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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
• Expertise in heat transfer, two-phase flow, and thermodynamic cycle analytical skills
• Experience with vapor-compression cycles, including heat exchangers and turbomachinery 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 best practices, including version control, change management, release management
• Familiar with PLC or AUTOSAR styled embedded architecture
• Familiar with system optimization techniques and their application to modeling and system design
• Knowledge of acauasal modeling languages such as Modelica

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Job Number: 30173126

Community / Marketing Title: Staff Controls Engineer

Location_formattedLocationLong: Georgia, US