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Controls Engineer - Data Center Operations

Fluidstack· Data Center Operations
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Abernathy, TX, New Lebanon, IN, River Bend, LA$202k - $258kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Controls Engineer role responsible for operating and optimizing live gigawatt-scale data center cooling and power systems, writing standard operating procedures and alarm runbooks, and diagnosing and resolving controls faults across multiple sites coming online.

Responsibilities

  • Run the building management and controls systems (BMS, SCADA, EPMS) that keep live gigawatt-scale data centers cooling and powered in real time.
  • Own real-time load and thermal control across sites coming online in pieces, keeping the live halls running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
  • Write the operating procedures, alarm response runbooks, and control sequences that become the standard for every site that follows.
  • Diagnose and resolve controls faults on the floor, from a misbehaving chiller sequence to a breaker mis-operation, before they touch a training run.
  • Tune control sequences and setpoints to hold PUE and reliability targets as load ramps and hardware generations change.

Qualifications

  • The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would fit.
  • You've operated the controls for live mission-critical facilities, data center, industrial, or power, and kept them running through faults, ramps, and construction next door.
  • You know BMS, SCADA, and EPMS platforms deep enough to diagnose a bad sequence or a misconfigured point, not just read the alarm.
  • You've written operating procedures and alarm response runbooks that other operators actually run.
  • You've resolved a real controls fault under pressure, on a live floor, with load on the line.
  • You tune control sequences and setpoints and can explain the tradeoff between reliability, efficiency, and cost.
  • You catch the drifting sensor or the wrong setpoint before it becomes an outage.

Skills

Required:BMS (Building Management System)SCADAEPMSControls fault diagnosis
Last updated Oct 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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