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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 corporate.carrier.com or follow on Carrier social media at @Carrier.
About This Role
We are seeking a Sr Manager, Digital Product Management, Embedded Systems to serve as a business and product leader across embedded controls, edge devices, connectivity, and software-enabled refrigeration solutions. You will own the business case, lead market strategy, and drive the end-to-end delivery of edge-device and connectivity capabilities that are central to Carrier's multi-year growth agenda.
You will report to the Global Product Leader for Edge Devices & Connectivity and work closely with engineering, segment GMs, sales, commercial leadership, service, and the PMO across CST business units. This position offers a flexible hybrid schedule with travel as needed to support customers, engineering teams, and global business stakeholders.
Job Description
- Business case & P&L: Develop business cases for embedded systems, edge devices, and connected product capabilities from investment rationale through post-launch revenue, margin, lifecycle value, and adoption performance.
- Control systems modernization strategy: Help define the multi-year roadmap for embedded control architecture modernization, including platform consolidation, modular software standards, lifecycle rationalization, backward compatibility, and end-of-life migration planning.
- Unified platform leadership: Own product requirements for next-generation controller and edge-device platforms, ensuring architecture decisions support feature reuse, scalable deployment, regional requirements, and long-term maintainability.
- Firmware lifecycle & OTA ownership: Define product requirements for device management, version governance, release readiness, and over-the-air update capabilities across relevant product lines and connected installed bases.
- Market strategy: Lead segment strategy and growth planning, market segmentation, competitive positioning, pricing discipline, and value proposition definition across hardware, firmware, connectivity, and software-enabled offerings.
- NPI leadership: Drive NPI execution with clear stage-gate discipline, launch readiness, cross-functional coordination, customer validation, and commercialization ownership from concept through field deployment.
Competencies:
- Strong business case ownership with clear P&L orientation; able to build, defend, and manage investment cases rather than simply administer product backlogs.
- Ability to define and drive strategy and growth planning; sets market and platform direction while making clear recommendations in ambiguous environments.
- Embedded systems product credibility; understands how controller software, firmware, connectivity, protocols, and hardware-dependent software are built, released, deployed, and maintained in the field.
- Platform modernization leadership; able to translate fragmented legacy architectures into practical roadmaps for consolidation, modularization, backward compatibility, and phased migration.
- Proven track record in NPI execution and end-to-end delivery in hardware, connected product, or industrial software environments.
- Cross-functional influence; able to align engineering, service, commercial, and senior leadership around roadmaps, tradeoffs, funding decisions, and launch readiness.
Skills:
- Strategic planning and value management, including pricing discipline, investment prioritization, and roadmap tradeoff management.
- Customer relationship management with a strong external commercial orientation and the ability to translate customer needs into product requirements.
- Product and services management across hardware, firmware, embedded software, connectivity-adjacent software, diagnostics, and service enablement.
- Domain fluency in edge devices, IoT gateways, embedded controllers, telematics, connected hardware platforms, or industrial equipment software.
- Working knowledge of firmware release governance, modular software design, and field deployment constraints.
- Familiarity with communication protocols and middleware concepts relevant to connected industrial products, such as CAN, J1939, MQTT, APIs, or equivalent standards.
- Understanding of OTA update architectures, including firmware-over-the-air and software-over-the-air delivery, release readiness, and field update reliability.
- Strong analytical capability, structured use of VOC, data-driven insights, market analysis, and installed-base intelligence.
- Strategic thinking in ambiguous or evolving environments to make clear recommendations, not just options.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or Computer Science
- 8+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex software-for-hardware, embedded systems, or connected product portfolios.
- 5+ years of hands-on product management experience owning a roadmap, defining requirements, building business cases, and driving products from concept through delivery in a B2B or industrial context.
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time, both domestically and internationally.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Business, Computer Science, or a related technical field; MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.
- Experience leading platform modernization, including embedded software consolidation, controller architecture transitions, lifecycle rationalization, or migration planning across multiple product generations.
- Background in transport refrigeration, commercial trailer, fleet management, cold chain, HVAC, industrial equipment, or adjacent hardware-software domains.
- Experience with connected product platforms, telematics, IoT-enabled embedded systems, remote monitoring ecosystems, or digital-service integration.
- Familiarity with OTA update architectures, firmware lifecycle governance, diagnostic tooling, field service toolchains, or release reliability improvement.
- Familiarity with product planning processes such as FGPP, MGPP, stage-gate, or equivalent portfolio governance frameworks.
Pay Range
The 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.
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.
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 Carrier.Recruiting@carrier.com. 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 from Job Posting Date: 18 June 2026.
Job Applicant's Privacy Notice
Please click on the link to review the Job Applicant Privacy Notice.
Use of AI
Technology-enabled tools may support parts of the recruitment process, with oversight by people.
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 corporate.carrier.com or follow on Carrier social media at @Carrier.
About This Role
We are seeking a Sr Manager, Digital Product Management, Embedded Systems to serve as a business and product leader across embedded controls, edge devices, connectivity, and software-enabled refrigeration solutions. You will own the business case, lead market strategy, and drive the end-to-end delivery of edge-device and connectivity capabilities that are central to Carrier's multi-year growth agenda.
You will report to the Global Product Leader for Edge Devices & Connectivity and work closely with engineering, segment GMs, sales, commercial leadership, service, and the PMO across CST business units. This position offers a flexible hybrid schedule with travel as needed to support customers, engineering teams, and global business stakeholders.
Job Description
- Business case & P&L: Develop business cases for embedded systems, edge devices, and connected product capabilities from investment rationale through post-launch revenue, margin, lifecycle value, and adoption performance.
- Control systems modernization strategy: Help define the multi-year roadmap for embedded control architecture modernization, including platform consolidation, modular software standards, lifecycle rationalization, backward compatibility, and end-of-life migration planning.
- Unified platform leadership: Own product requirements for next-generation controller and edge-device platforms, ensuring architecture decisions support feature reuse, scalable deployment, regional requirements, and long-term maintainability.
- Firmware lifecycle & OTA ownership: Define product requirements for device management, version governance, release readiness, and over-the-air update capabilities across relevant product lines and connected installed bases.
- Market strategy: Lead segment strategy and growth planning, market segmentation, competitive positioning, pricing discipline, and value proposition definition across hardware, firmware, connectivity, and software-enabled offerings.
- NPI leadership: Drive NPI execution with clear stage-gate discipline, launch readiness, cross-functional coordination, customer validation, and commercialization ownership from concept through field deployment.
Competencies:
- Strong business case ownership with clear P&L orientation; able to build, defend, and manage investment cases rather than simply administer product backlogs.
- Ability to define and drive strategy and growth planning; sets market and platform direction while making clear recommendations in ambiguous environments.
- Embedded systems product credibility; understands how controller software, firmware, connectivity, protocols, and hardware-dependent software are built, released, deployed, and maintained in the field.
- Platform modernization leadership; able to translate fragmented legacy architectures into practical roadmaps for consolidation, modularization, backward compatibility, and phased migration.
- Proven track record in NPI execution and end-to-end delivery in hardware, connected product, or industrial software environments.
- Cross-functional influence; able to align engineering, service, commercial, and senior leadership around roadmaps, tradeoffs, funding decisions, and launch readiness.
Skills:
- Strategic planning and value management, including pricing discipline, investment prioritization, and roadmap tradeoff management.
- Customer relationship management with a strong external commercial orientation and the ability to translate customer needs into product requirements.
- Product and services management across hardware, firmware, embedded software, connectivity-adjacent software, diagnostics, and service enablement.
- Domain fluency in edge devices, IoT gateways, embedded controllers, telematics, connected hardware platforms, or industrial equipment software.
- Working knowledge of firmware release governance, modular software design, and field deployment constraints.
- Familiarity with communication protocols and middleware concepts relevant to connected industrial products, such as CAN, J1939, MQTT, APIs, or equivalent standards.
- Understanding of OTA update architectures, including firmware-over-the-air and software-over-the-air delivery, release readiness, and field update reliability.
- Strong analytical capability, structured use of VOC, data-driven insights, market analysis, and installed-base intelligence.
- Strategic thinking in ambiguous or evolving environments to make clear recommendations, not just options.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or Computer Science
- 8+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex software-for-hardware, embedded systems, or connected product portfolios.
- 5+ years of hands-on product management experience owning a roadmap, defining requirements, building business cases, and driving products from concept through delivery in a B2B or industrial context.
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time, both domestically and internationally.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Business, Computer Science, or a related technical field; MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.
- Experience leading platform modernization, including embedded software consolidation, controller architecture transitions, lifecycle rationalization, or migration planning across multiple product generations.
- Background in transport refrigeration, commercial trailer, fleet management, cold chain, HVAC, industrial equipment, or adjacent hardware-software domains.
- Experience with connected product platforms, telematics, IoT-enabled embedded systems, remote monitoring ecosystems, or digital-service integration.
- Familiarity with OTA update architectures, firmware lifecycle governance, diagnostic tooling, field service toolchains, or release reliability improvement.
- Familiarity with product planning processes such as FGPP, MGPP, stage-gate, or equivalent portfolio governance frameworks.
Pay Range
The 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.
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.
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 Carrier.Recruiting@carrier.com. 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 from Job Posting Date: 18 June 2026.
Job Applicant's Privacy Notice
Please click on the link to review the Job Applicant Privacy Notice.
Use of AI
Technology-enabled tools may support parts of the recruitment process, with oversight by people.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Embedded
Map your degree to embedded SOC codes
USCIS evaluates specialty occupation by matching your degree field to the role's Standard Occupational Classification code. Pull your target job's SOC code from O*NET and confirm your degree aligns before applying. Mismatches trigger RFEs.
Target defense contractors with active LCA filings
Defense and aerospace firms like Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and L3Harris file LCAs regularly for embedded roles. Run an OFLC Wage Search filtered by SOC code 17-2061 to identify which employers have certified wages for embedded systems positions recently.
Use Migrate Mate to filter H-1B sponsors
Search Migrate Mate to find embedded roles at employers with verified H-1B filing history. Filtering by DOL Labor Condition Application data shows you which companies have sponsored this role before, saving time on employers unlikely to file.
Get your ITAR clearance eligibility documented early
Many embedded roles at defense contractors require ITAR compliance, which limits access to U.S. persons. Confirm your visa status satisfies the employer's export control requirements before the offer stage. Some roles are restricted to U.S. citizens or permanent residents regardless of H-1B eligibility.
Negotiate premium processing into your offer
H-1B standard processing can run six months or more. Ask your employer to include USCIS premium processing in your offer letter. This reduces adjudication to 15 business days and protects your start date when a project timeline is fixed.
Document proprietary toolchain experience for the petition
Your employer's H-1B petition must show the role requires a specific degree. Work with their immigration counsel to document how your RTOS, JTAG debugger, or hardware description language experience ties directly to the degree requirement. Vague job descriptions invite RFEs.
H-1B Visa Embedded: Frequently Asked Questions
Do embedded engineering roles qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. USCIS recognizes embedded systems engineering as a specialty occupation when the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a directly related field. Roles involving firmware development, real-time operating systems, or hardware-software co-design consistently meet this standard, provided the employer's job description ties specific degree requirements to the actual duties.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas most often for embedded roles?
Defense and aerospace contractors, automotive OEMs developing ADAS or EV systems, semiconductor manufacturers, and IoT hardware companies are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for embedded engineers. Medical device firms are also active sponsors because FDA-regulated embedded software development requires specialized credentials. You can identify active sponsors by filtering for embedded SOC codes in DOL LCA disclosure data, or by browsing verified sponsors on Migrate Mate.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new embedded engineering job without losing my status?
Yes. H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start working for a new employer as soon as the new H-1B transfer petition is filed, as long as your prior petition has been approved and you've been in valid H-1B status. Your new employer must file before your current status expires. The embedded role at the new employer must still qualify as a specialty occupation under the same degree-to-duties alignment standard.
How does ITAR affect H-1B sponsorship for embedded engineers at defense companies?
International Traffic in Arms Regulations classify certain embedded systems work, particularly on defense electronics, weapons guidance, or satellite hardware, as controlled technology. Employers must assess whether a foreign national's access constitutes a deemed export requiring a license. Many defense contractors limit these roles to U.S. persons, meaning H-1B holders may be ineligible regardless of sponsorship willingness. Always confirm export control status before pursuing an offer.
What does prevailing wage mean for an embedded engineering H-1B petition?
Prevailing wage is the minimum salary your employer must certify on the Labor Condition Application filed with DOL before petitioning USCIS. For embedded engineers, prevailing wage is set by SOC code, geographic location, and experience level, with four wage tiers ranging from entry-level to fully competent. Your employer uses the OFLC Wage Search to determine the applicable rate and must pay at or above it for the duration of your H-1B status.