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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.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Sr. Optimization Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for:
- Engineering Software Architecture & Platform Development: Design and develop scalable backend architectures supporting engineering analytics, optimization, and decision-making applications; Lead software architecture design, system refactoring, and continuous platform modernization efforts; Establish reusable software frameworks, APIs, and component libraries for computational engineering applications; Improve software maintainability, scalability, reliability, and performance through modern engineering practices.
- HVAC Computational Solutions: Translate HVAC engineering requirements into actionable software and computational solutions; Collaborate with optimization, modeling, and product engineering teams to build engineering decision-support tools; Develop software infrastructure supporting product family design, platforming, simulation automation, and engineering workflows; Integrate engineering models, simulation tools, and optimization engines into production-ready platforms.
- Optimization & Workflow Automation: Build computational workflows enabling automated engineering analysis and optimization. Develop data pipelines and orchestration frameworks for large-scale engineering studies. Support deployment of optimization methodologies into practical business applications. Enable efficient execution of engineering calculations, trade-off studies, and design exploration.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering domain experts to capture requirements and convert them into scalable technical solutions; Drive projects from concept through deployment, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery; Collaborate globally with software, computational engineering, modeling, and product development teams; Contribute to technical roadmap planning and software best practices across the organization.
Requirements
As a minimum you must have:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related technical field.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in:
o Backend Architecture
o Software Design Patterns
o System Refactoring & Modernization
o Distributed System Design
o API and Service Development
- Strong programming skills in Python, C#, Java, C++ or equivalent modern programming languages.
- Proven ability to convert complex business or engineering requirements into deployable software solutions.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex production issues including memory leaks, resource contention, concurrency bottlenecks, and performance degradation.
- Strong experience with infrastructure and DevOps
o Git version control;
o Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD platforms;
o Linux administration and shell scripting;
o Docker containerization;
o Cloud platforms (Azure preferred);
o WSL development environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Although not necessary, it would be nice if you have:
- Experience with engineering software development, simulation platforms, or scientific computing.
- Understanding of optimization methods and engineering decision-support systems.
- Familiarity with HVAC, thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, or energy systems.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and microservices.
- Knowledge of database design, performance optimization, and data engineering.
- Exposure to mathematical optimization frameworks such as Pyomo, Gurobi, CPLEX and IPOPT
- In-depth knowledge and experience with mathematical theory, algorithmic foundations and methods/tools for numerical optimization of large-scale systems.
- Exposure to AI/ML-enabled engineering workflows is a plus.
- Familiarity with using HPC and cloud-based platforms for computation at scale.
- Self-starter who is well-organized in an international team environment, and has excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills.
Benefits
We are committed to offering competitive benefits programs for all of our employees, and enhancing our programs when necessary.
Our commitment to you
Our greatest assets are the expertise, creativity and passion of our employees. We strive to provide a great place to work that attracts, develops and retains the best talent, promotes employee engagement, fosters teamwork and ultimately drives innovation for the benefit of our customers. We strive to create an environment where you feel that you belong, with diversity and inclusion as the engine to growth and innovation. We develop and deploy best-in-class programs and practices, providing enriching career opportunities, listening to employee feedback and always challenging ourselves to do better. This is The Carrier Way.
Join us and make a difference.
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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.
