{"id":1967368,"url":"https://alion.io/job/carrier-global-corporation-principal-engineer-modeling-controls-engineering","title":"Principal Engineer, Modeling & Controls Engineering","company":{"id":13755,"name":"Carrier Global Corporation","domain":"carrier.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/carrier","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":99,"open_postings":134,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.022,"repost_share":0.015,"time_to_fill_p50_days":27,"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Syracuse, United States","United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":117500,"max":234500,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":234500},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"MATLAB","optional":true},{"name":"Simulink","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-06T17:51:02Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-06","last_verified_at":"2026-10-20T20:26:19Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":14,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":14},"description":"About Carrier\nCarrier 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.\nWe 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.\nIn 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.\nIf 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.\nThis is a full-time, onsite position operating on a standard Monday through Friday, day shift schedule.\nThis role is fully onsite. The selected candidate will work daily from one of the following primary locations:\n East Syracuse, NY (Strongly Preferred)\nKennesaw, GA\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the development and adoption of common controls platforms to accelerate product development, improve technology reuse, and ensure consistent product quality across multiple product lines.\nLead the development and delivery of robust, production-ready control solutions by ensuring compliance with customer and technical requirements, industry standards, and best practices.\nDrive project execution by setting clear technical goals, managing timelines, and coordinating teams. Mitigate risks, align stakeholders, and ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.\nSupport system-level requirement definition and drive low-level control requirement decomposition.\nProvide technical leadership in the development of advanced control algorithms, including system identification, controllability, robustness, stability, optimization, and nonlinear control methodologies.\nSupport the development and calibration of physics-based plant models. Utilize models for design exploration, control system analysis, verification, and validation.\nDevelop & execute unit-tests & integration tests for control system.\nLead 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.\nApply 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.\nDrive strategic initiatives to improve organizational quality and efficiency through technology advancement and process improvement.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’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.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPhD\nDegree in Electrical, Control Systems, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering.\nReside within a commutable distance to the East Syracuse, NY facility.\nProficient knowledge of controls engineering foundations, including feedback control, linear/nonlinear control, multivariable control, system identification, and constrained optimization and predictive control.\nExcellent communication skills and a proven track record of delivering results through effective teamwork.\nExperience with industrial control applications.\nExperience with vapor-compression cycles, including heat exchangers and turbomachinery compression technologies.\nExperience driving controls platforming initiatives, common architectures, and technology roadmap development.\nProficient in the use of MATLAB-based toolsets including Simulink to design, implement, and test embedded controls algorithms.\nExcellent communication skills and a proven track record of delivering results through effective teamwork.\nExperience 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.\nKnowledge of acauasal modeling languages, such as Modelica.\nPay Range\nThe 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\nThis position is entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.Benefits\nEmployees are eligible for benefits, including:\nHealth Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives\n\nRetirement Benefits\n\nTime 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\n\nDisability: Short-term and long-term disability\n\nLife Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment\n\nTax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account\n\nTuition Assistance\n\nTo learn more about our benefits offering, please click hereWork with us | Carrier Corporate. The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors, such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.\nCarrier EEO Statement and Accommodations Process\nCarrier 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.\nIf 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 . 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