Principal Electrical Engineer

Carrier; Minnesota; On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Carrier is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to lead hardware design development for innovative products. This role involves managing the product lifecycle and providing technical leadership in cross-functional teams. You will work on cutting-edge technologies with a focus on safety, sustainability, and reliability.

The ideal candidate should hold a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and have over 10 years of extensive experience in electrical design and project leadership, particularly in the development of PCBA designs. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a transformative global firm.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional work experience.
• 6+ years developing PCBA designs.
• 2+ years of Microcontroller (MCU) experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware strategic planning and architecture definition.
• Provide technical leadership to project team members.
• Implement new electronic designs that meet customer requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Electrical design

Microcontroller programming

Agile methodology

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

CAD modeling

DFMEA

Job 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 this role

The Principal Electrical Engineer leads and manages hardware aspects of products throughout their entire lifecycle from architecture, planning, design through verification and validation. Provides electrical‑design technical leadership for teams in cross‑functional new product development and sustaining engineering projects. Hardware design development is for products based on different sensing technologies (e.g. Optical, Electrochemical) and communication technologies (wired and wireless).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead hardware strategic planning, concept generation, architecture definition and translation to system/subsystem/component definitions, with a focus on reliability, safety, and sustainability.
• Provide technical leadership to other electrical engineering and project team members.
• Develop and write engineering requirements and rationales that align with customer requirements and regulatory standards.
• Work closely with Embedded Firmware Engineers to develop and execute strategies for Hardware/Firmware integration and diagnostic coverage.
• Implement new or updated electronic designs that meet or exceed all customer, marketing, and regulatory requirements.
• Assess the impact of making changes to electrical components, subcircuits, PCBs, and PCBAs.
• Author and lead through to implementation engineering change requests, manufacturing and engineering change orders.
• Complete computer assisted design (CAD) modeling & simulation, risk analyses (e.g. DFMEA), schematic capture, and board layouts of designs.
• Develop or support development of test cases and traceability from requirements.
• Build and test designs from bench-level to formal verification and validation level using in‑house test setups or at 3rd party test facilities.
• Support product quality investigations and perform root cause analyses.
• Follow development processes, lead technical reviews, and properly document, test, and control work deliverables.
• Provide work breakdown plans and task estimates in support of project estimates and management.
• Use Agile methodology for hardware development with clear communication to project stakeholders with metrics to track and report progress.
• Identify project risks and provide practical proposals to close gaps and mitigate risks.
• Participate in roadmap and resource planning.
• Support multiple product development programs at a given time.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years of professional work experience.
• 6+ years developing PCBA’s designs.
• 2+ years of Microcontroller (MCU) experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Analog circuit design experience strongly preferred.
• Embedded programming experience.
• Experience with Design for Manufacturability and Design for Test.
• Led the hardware development of at least one product from inception through market launch.
• Platformed product development experience.
• Regulated product experience (medical, automotive, Industrial Life Safety, SIL2).
• Agile methodology experience.
• Experience across all phases of the program development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, and test.
• Experienced with FMEAs and developing control techniques to mitigate risks.
• Excellent team leadership, communication and organizational skills.
• Self‑motivated and demonstrated ability to lead process improvement activities.