Carrier Global Corporation

Staff Firmware & Embedded Software Engineer

Carrier Global Corporation$96K — $192K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
  • 8+ years of experience in Linux embedded software design and development.
  • 8+ years of experience in C/C++ programming for embedded systems.
  • 3+ years of experience in RTOS and/or bare metal programming.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership to the software engineering team.
  • Create architectural documentation for project scope.
  • Conduct cybersecurity reviews during product development.
  • Share architectural knowledge during leadership scrums.
  • Deliver detailed workflows, timelines, and project deliverables to stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams for end-to-end functionality.
  • Lead the software development lifecycle from concept to implementation.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision health care benefits; wellness incentives.
  • Retirement benefits.
  • Generous paid time off including vacation, sick days, and holidays.
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
  • Life insurance and accidental death coverage.
  • Tax-advantaged accounts and tuition assistance.
Full Job Description
About this role

We are looking for a highly motivated Embedded Software leader to provide technical leadership to the global teams that develop Carrier's embedded control products. These solutions require the product development coordination of embedded controls technologies with state-of-the-art GUIs, cloud, and mobile app interactivity. This individual would be responsible for leading the embedded software Wi-Fi development activities of the embedded software group for various embedded products.

Duties & Responsibilities
  • Provide technical leadership to the software engineering team.
  • Provide architectural documentation regarding project scope to technical design team.
  • Provide cybersecurity reviews during product development, design, and implementation phases.
  • Provide architectural knowledge to product owners and other leadership during scrums.
  • Provide detailed workflows, project timelines, and project deliverables to eligible engineers, leadership, and stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware, mobile, and cloud engineers to ensure seamless end-to-end functionality.
  • Lead software development lifecycle from project scope to code and design to product release and implementation.


Minimum Qualification
  • Bachelor's degree.
  • 8+ years of experience in the design and development of Linux embedded software.
  • 8+ years of experience in C/C++ programming for embedded systems.
  • 3+ years experience writing RTOS and/or bare metal programming.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related technical discipline.
  • Experience identifying, prompting, and implementing AI strategies and recommendations into software development.
  • Experience in unit test cases on frameworks (Google test) and support CICD pipelines.
  • Participate in code reviews, documentation, and system debugging.
  • Strong hardware/electrical knowledge. You should know how to evaluate if your firmware is working as expected by probing the hardware (e.g., oscilloscope, logic analyzer, etc.)
  • Demonstrated knowledge of firmware development best practices (AGILE design, code reviews, design documentation, unit test, test driven development)
  • Experience with Embedded systems' standard design elements - bootloaders, OTA, firmware applications.
  • Experience connecting embedded devices to platforms such as AWS IoT Core, Azure IoT Hub, or GCP.
  • Experience with Embedded IoT Protocols - MQTT, Sparkplug, HTTPS, device-to-cloud communication, OTA.
  • Experience with one or more wireless technologies (Bluetooth, BLE, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Zwave, 802.11, 802.15.4, LoRa, Cellular)
  • Experience with common wired messaging architectures and protocols (UART, RS232/485, I2C, SPI, CAN, CAN-TP, CANopen)
  • Experience with one or more embedded GUI frameworks (QT, Crank, LVGL)
  • Understanding of Network protocols (TCP,UDP Sockets,IPV4 IPv6)
  • Understanding of cyber security technologies and best practices (encryption, key management, certificates/exchanges, HMACs, PKI, HSMs, Secure Boot)
  • Experience in the use of Jira/Confluence, ADO or other software development tools
  • Experience with ftp, TFTP boot, NFS
  • Experience with open-source code, communities, and licenses
  • Experience with HVAC Controls Systems and Energy Storage Systems experience
  • Proficient in debugging multi-threaded applications using GDB, perf, and JTAG.
  • experience with Yocto Project or Buildroot to create and customize Linux images.


Pay Range
The annual salary for this position is between $96,000.00 - $192,000.00 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.

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

Benefits

Employees are eligible for benefits, including:
  • 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


To learn more about our benefits offering, please click here Work with us | Carrier CorporateThe 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.

Application Deadline
Applications will be accepted for at least 3 days from Job Posting Date: 9 July 2026

Use of AI

Technology-enabled tools may support parts of the recruitment process, with oversight by people.

About Carrier Global Corporation

Carrier is the provider of intelligent climate and energy solutions.

Carrier Global Corporation Careers

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53,000 employees
Market Cap
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Net Income
$1.9 billion
Revenue
$17.4 billion

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