Principal Engineer, Modeling & Controls Engineering

C01 Carrier Corporation; Village of East Syracuse (NY); On-site; USD 118,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and retirement benefits

Job summary

Carrier Global Corporation seeks a Principal Controls Engineer to lead architecture, development, and deployment of control systems across HVAC and refrigeration products. The role emphasizes technical leadership, strategy influence, and collaboration with multiple business units.

Onsite work is standard, with East Syracuse, NY preferred. The candidate should have a strong background in advanced control theory, model-based design, and experience with MATLAB/Simulink, Modelica, and industrial

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field with 10+ years of advanced controls experience or Master’s with 7+ years.
• Proficient in controls engineering foundations including feedback, linear/nonlinear, multivariable control and system identification.
• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink to design and test embedded control algorithms.
• Experience with vapor‑compression cycles, heat exchangers, and turbomachinery compression technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and adoption of common controls platforms across product lines.
• Deliver production-ready control solutions compliant with requirements and standards.
• Drive project execution with clear technical goals and cross-functional coordination.
• Lead lab and field validation, MIL/SIL/HIL testing, and model-based design activities.
• Develop and calibrate physics-based plant models and nonlinear control strategies.

Skills

Feedback control

Linear control

Multivariable control

System identification

Constrained optimization

Predictive control

MATLAB/Simulink

Modelica

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technical field

Master’s degree

PhD degree (preferred)

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Modelica

Job description

About Carrier Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure safe transport of food, lifesaving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow on Carrier social media at @Carrier.

Role

We are seeking an accomplished, visionary, and results-oriented Principal Controls Engineer to provide technical leadership and drive the strategic direction of control systems development across carrier HVAC and refrigeration product portfolio. In this role, you will serve as a recognized technical authority, leading the architecture, development, and deployment of control solutions while influencing product strategy, technology roadmaps, and engineering best practices. This position offers the opportunity to engage with multiple business units and contribute to a diverse product portfolio. If you are passionate about solving complex technical challenges, leading high-impact programs, and influencing the future direction of advanced control systems, we would love to hear from you.

This is a full-time, onsite position operating on a standard Monday through Friday, day shift schedule. This role is fully onsite. The selected candidate will work daily from one of the following primary locations: East Syracuse, NY (Strongly Preferred) Kennesaw, GA.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and adoption of common controls platforms to accelerate product development, improve technology reuse, and ensure consistent product quality across multiple product lines.
• 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.
• Provide technical leadership in the development of advanced control algorithms, including system identification, controllability, robustness, stability, optimization, and nonlinear control methodologies.
• 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.
• Lead laboratory and field validation activities, including hands-on testing in psychrometric laboratories, and analyze results to drive continuous improvements in plant models, control algorithms, and overall system performance.
• Apply best-in-class strategies to push testing further upstream in the development lifecycle through Model-in-the-Loop (MIL), Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing.
• Drive strategic initiatives to improve organizational quality and efficiency through technology advancement and process improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field with 10+ years of advanced controls system experience, -or- Master’s degree with 7+ years of advanced controls system experience.
• Proficient knowledge of controls engineering foundations, including feedback control, linear/nonlinear control, multivariable control, system identification, and constrained optimization and predictive control.
• Excellent communication skills and a proven track record of delivering results through effective teamwork.
• Experience with industrial control applications.
• Experience with vapor‑compression cycles, including heat exchangers and turbomachinery compression technologies.
• Experience driving controls platforming initiatives, common architectures, and technology roadmap development.
• 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 acauasal modeling languages, such as Modelica.
• Reside within a commutable distance to the East Syracuse, NY facility.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD Degree in Electrical, Control Systems, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering.

Pay Range

The annual salary for this position is between $117,500.00 - $234,500.00 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate. The pay range will not be below the minimum wage applicable to the jurisdiction in which the applicant is to be employed.

Other Compensation

This position is entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.

Benefits

• 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.

Carrier EEO Statement and Accommodations Process

Carrier is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status or any other applicable state or federal protected class. Carrier provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with section 503 of Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, participate in an interview, or otherwise engage in the hiring process, please contact us at [e-mail]. We will make every effort to meet your needs in accordance with applicable laws.

Application Deadline

Applications will be accepted for at least 3 days from Job Posting Date: 6 October 2026.

Job Applicant's Privacy Notice

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