Controls Engineer

Company: Carrier
Location: Kennesaw
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Country:
United States of America
Location:
CAG11: ALC Other HG 1025 Cobb Place Blvd, Kennesaw, GA, 30144 USA
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 the Role:

The Controls Engineer 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 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:

• Develop control solutions for HVAC and refrigeration system, ensuring alignment with customer and technical requirements, industry standards, and best practices.
• Support system-level requirement definition and low-level control requirements decomposition.
• Perform dynamic analysis of non-linear systems in development of control algorithms including system identification, controllability, robustness, stability, and optimization
• Develop and execute unit tests and integration tests for control systems to ensure functionality and performance.
• Participate in hands-on testing in the psychrometric laboratory, analyzing results to guide refinements in plant model fidelity and control algorithms.
• Apply best-in-class strategies to push testing further upstream in the development lifecycle (MIL/SIL/HIL)
• Support the development and calibration of physics-based plant models.
• Contribute to project execution by supporting the setting of clear technical goals, managing timelines, and collaborating with teams to ensure timely and quality delivery.
  
  Required Qualifications:
  
  • Bachelor's degree in electrical, control systems, mechanical, or engineering with 3+ years of controls system experience
    OR
    
    • Master's degree or Ph.D. in electrical, control systems, mechanical, or engineering
      
      Preferred Qualifications:
      
      • Knowledge of controls engineering foundations, including feedback control, linear/nonlinear control, multivariable control, system identification, and optimization.
      • Experience in the use of Matlab-based toolsets to design, implement, and test embedded controls algorithms
      • Experience with industrial control applications
      • Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with cross-functional teams and external customers.
      • Expertise in heat transfer, two-phase flow, and thermodynamic cycle analytical skills
      • 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 best practices, including version control, change management, release management
      • Familiar with PLC or AUTOSAR styled embedded architecture
      • Familiar with system optimization techniques and their application to modeling and system design
      • Knowledge of acauasal modeling languages such as Modelica
        
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        Pay Range:
        $61,213 - $107,122 Annually
        
        Carrier is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
        
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