Sr Controls Engineer

Company: Carrier
Location: Kennesaw
Posted on: May 2, 2025

Job Description:

Country:
United States of America
Location:
CAG11: ALC Other HG 1025 Cobb Place Blvd, Kennesaw, GA, 30144 USA
Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating solutions that matter for people and our planet for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier .

About the Role:

The Controls COE 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 Senior 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:

• Independently develop production ready controls solutions ensuring customer and technical requirements are satisfied, and standard procedures are followed
• Support project management with the definition of suitable plans for development and verification, conduct stakeholder technical reviews.
• Perform dynamic system analysis of non-linear systems in development of control algorithms including system identification, controllability, robustness, stability, and optimization
• Work with system engineers to develop requirements and utilize domain knowledge and model-based analysis to validate requirements.
• Recommend updates to equipment design efforts based on control objectives, model-based control analysis and system performance capability
• Support the development and calibration of physics-based plant models
• 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 the advancement of model-based design processes.
  
  Minimum Requirements:
  
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Control Systems, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering with 5+ years of controls system experience
    OR
    
    • Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical, Control Systems, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering with 3+ 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 vapor-compression cycles, including heat exchangers and turbomachinery compression technologies
      • Expertise in heat transfer, two-phase flow, and thermodynamic cycle analytical skills
      • Experience in developing and calibrating physics-based models
      • Knowledge of acauasal modeling languages such as Modelica
      • Proven ability to work independently with limited supervision
      • Excellent communication skills and a proven track record of delivering results through effective teamwork
      • Ability to work hands-on in psychrometric laboratory environment to collect and analyze data
      • Experience with industrial control applications
      • Experience with software development lifecycle best practices, including version control, change management, release management
      • 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
      • Understanding of embedded SW architectures
      • Familiar with system optimization techniques and their application to modeling and system design
        
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