Staff Engineer, Modeling & Controls Engineering

Carrier

Staff Controls Engineer developing innovative control solutions for HVAC and refrigeration systems. Leading project execution and collaborating with global teams to enhance customer experience in a robust portfolio.

Posted 5/23/2026full-timeKennesaw • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $96,000 - $192,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

B.S. in Electrical, Control Systems, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering with 7+ years of controls system experience OR: M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical, Control Systems, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering 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
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 practices, including version control, change management, 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.

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

controls engineeringfeedback controllinear controlnonlinear controlmultivariable controlsystem identificationoptimizationMATLABembedded controls algorithmsacausal modeling languages

Soft Skills

technical writingproject executionrisk mitigationstakeholder alignmentteam coordinationprocess improvementorganizational qualitycommunication