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Staff Firmware & Embedded Software Engineer


Job Location:

Indianapolis, IN - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 96000 - 192000
Posted: 11 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 8 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Carrier

Carrier 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 or follow on Carrier social media at @Carrier.

About this role

We are looking for a highly motivated Embedded Software leader to provide technical leadership to the global teams that develop Carriers 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

  • Bachelors 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

  • Bachelors 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 (TCPUDP SocketsIPV4 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 $96000.00 - $192000.00 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

Thisposition 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 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.

Carrier EEO Statement and Accommodations Process

Carrier 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.

If 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 . We will make every effort to meet your needs in accordance with applicable laws.

Application Deadline

Applications will be accepted for at least 3 days fromJobPosting Date: 9 July 2026

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Use of AI

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


Required Experience:

Staff IC


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