Principal Engineer, Modeling & Controls Engineering

Carrier

Principal Engineer focusing on advanced control systems for Carrier's data center solutions. Designing scalable architectures and optimizing performance in high-density thermal environments.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeKennesaw • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $117,500 - $234,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design, development, and delivery of robust, production-ready control solutions for data center platforms by ensuring compliance with customer and technical requirements, industry standards, and best practices.
Define scalable control architecture for data center HVAC platforms, including chillers, cooling plants, fan coil units, liquid cooling solutions, and supervisory plant controllers.
Lead the design and development of advanced control strategies that optimize performance, energy efficiency, and system robustness, including supervisory optimal control, model predictive control, robust and adaptive control, fault-tolerance control, etc.
Lead decomposition of system-level requirements into control functional specifications.
Support the development and calibration of physics-based plant models. Utilize models for design exploration, control system analysis, verification, and validation.
Support system-level commissioning activities, including startup strategy definition, control sequence validation, and tuning in real operating environments.
Drive project execution by setting clear technical goals, managing timelines, and coordinating teams. Mitigate risks, align stakeholders, and ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master of Science in Control Systems, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Chemical Engineering.
15+ years of advanced controls system experience.
Willing and able to travel domestically and internationally up to 3 times per year.
Preferred Qualifications: PhD
Experience with data center cooling or high-reliability plant-level HVAC control system designs.
Proficient knowledge of controls engineering foundations, including feedback control, linear/nonlinear control, multivariable control, system identification, and constrained optimization and predictive control.
Proven experience implementing model predictive control, or optimization-based supervisory control in real-time energy-efficient system design.
Experience in advanced estimation techniques, including moving horizon estimation in real-time systems.
Familiarity with real-time optimization algorithms and associated modeling approaches.
Experience commissioning of chiller plants, liquid cooling systems, supervisory plant controls.
Proficient in the use of MATLAB-based toolsets including Simulink to design, implement, and test embedded controls algorithms.
Excellent communication skills and a proven track record of delivering results through effective teamwork.
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.
Knowledge of acausal modeling languages such as Modelica.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health Care Benefits : Medical, Dental, Vision
Wellness incentives
Retirement Benefits
Time off and Leave : Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation
Disability : Short-term and long-term disability
Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
Tuition Assistance

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Hard Skills & Tools

control systemsHVAC controlmodel predictive controlfeedback controllinear controlnonlinear controlmultivariable controlsystem identificationconstrained optimizationreal-time optimization

Soft Skills

communicationteamworkproject managementrisk mitigationstakeholder alignmentgoal settingtimeline managementresults delivery

Certifications

Master of Science in Control SystemsMaster of Science in Electrical EngineeringMaster of Science in Mechanical EngineeringMaster of Science in Chemical EngineeringPhD (preferred)