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Controls Engineer, Data Center Engineering

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Maiden, North Carolina)full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Data Center Controls Engineer position within Apple’s IS&T Infrastructure Services, focusing on designing, implementing, and optimizing automated control systems for electrical power, mechanical systems, and the DCIS platform across Apple’s data center facilities.

Responsibilities

  • Design of data center automation and control systems for electrical infrastructure: EPMS, MV Power Distribution Control Systems, LV transfer schemes; and mechanical infrastructure: BAS, chilled water plants, cooling towers, CRAC/CRAH units, air handling units, pumping systems, and airside economizers.
  • Author, own, and continuously improve control system specifications and sequences of operations — writing from scratch for new systems and scopes, and iterating based on construction lessons learned, RFI/change order trends, and feedback from internal teams, general contractors, and vendors. Review project controls drawings developed by EORs.
  • Configuration and programming of PLCs, PACs, and DDC controllers, or technical oversight of third parties providing those systems, across both electrical and mechanical control platforms.
  • Support the DCIS platform by integrating electrical and mechanical system data into the Ignition-based HMI environment over MQTT, ensuring a cohesive and intuitive operator experience across all control domains.
  • Commissioning oversight of electrical and mechanical control systems, ensuring all systems are validated and performing to design intent prior to handoff to operations.
  • Troubleshoot controls and monitoring issues across both domains — analyzing operational data, leveraging fault detection and diagnostics (FDD), and implementing corrective actions to protect facility reliability.
  • Serve as technical liaison between design teams, A&E consultants, vendors, contractors, and operations, driving high-quality deliverables on results-oriented schedules.
  • Provide training and mentorship to Operations personnel on control systems and the DCIS environment, and support emergency response during significant facility incidents.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent job-related experience.
  • 5+ years of engineering experience with control systems in data centers or mission-critical environments for both electrical power and mechanical/HVAC systems
  • Understanding of controls for high-availability electrical systems (such as EPMS and MV PDCS) and mechanical systems (such as chilled water plants and BAS infrastructure)
  • Experience programming DDC/PLC controllers and redlining controls drawings.

Skills

Required:Electrical and Mechanical Control System DesignPLC/DDC/PLC ProgrammingSpecifications and Sequences of OperationsDCIS / Ignition / MQTTField Protocols (BACnet, Modbus, OPC UA, IEC 61850)
Nice to have:IEC 61131-3 ProgrammingFDD, Data Trending, AlarmingAI in Engineering (AI-assisted specs, AI coding assistants)

Benefits

  • Not specified in this description.
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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