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Plant Controls Lead (EMS/PPC)

Fluidstack· Development
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Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA$330k - $390kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Role leading the control stack for off-grid campuses, owning EMS, plant controller, and dispatch logic for PV, BESS, and gas within Fluidstack’s power generation team.

Responsibilities

  • Own the control stack for fully off-grid campuses: the site energy management system, the plant controller for each power block and the dispatch logic across PV, BESS and gas, as one standard architecture that scales from a single block to a gigawatt-scale campus energized in six months.
  • Write sequences our own code runs. Turn the control philosophy into sequences of operation covering every operating mode, source transition, blackstart path, emergency shed and degraded state, and prove each one in simulation and on a hardware-in-the-loop bench before the plant is energized. Build the plant model library and bench so any controller, vendor or our own, is tested against our plant before it ships to site.
  • Hold the generation side of the control contract. Extend the contract between the power plant and the data center from one plant and one facility to many blocks feeding many buildings, with load reduction deadlines measured in seconds that both sides are measured against in production.
  • Decide what we buy and what we build. Choose which components we bring in to energize the first campuses faster and which we build first, replace each bought piece with our own code on a planned schedule, and hold every supplier to our specification and conformance tests so Fluidstack keeps its configuration, its data and a clean exit.
  • Lead commissioning and tuning in the field. Take each campus through frequency and voltage response, load-step testing against real AI load profiles and every mode transition, and fold each finding back into the standard so the next campus starts tuned.
  • Build the team. Hire the controls software and test engineers who build the stack with you, sequenced against the components we replace first.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in plant controls and energy management systems for utility-scale hybrid plants, including sequences of operation, controls software, and field commissioning.
  • You've owned the plant controller or EMS on a utility-scale hybrid plant combining at least two of PV, BESS and thermal generation, and you can name the sites and the megawatts it dispatches today.
  • You've written sequences of operation for source transitions, blackstart or islanding, and you've stood on site when they ran against energized equipment, including the times they did not work.
  • You've shipped control software as a product, version-controlled, tested and released to running plants, and you know what changes when the loop closes on a real turbine or inverter fleet.
  • You've brought a third-party controller or component into a live plant to hit a date, held the vendor to a specification through factory and site acceptance, and later replaced it with your own code without an outage.
  • You've designed an interface between two control systems owned by different parties, with the data, timing and failure behavior written down and tested, not left to whoever integrated it.
  • You've tuned a plant in the field, frequency and voltage response, ramp rates and load steps, and you can explain the tradeoff behind each setting you left in place.
  • You write clearly enough that an OEM controls engineer, a commissioning agent and a CEO each get the decision they need from the same document.

Skills

Required:Plant controls and EMSSequences of operationControl software deployment

Benefits

  • Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.
  • Base pay range: $330K – $390K, plus equity, benefits, and applicable incentive plans.
Last updated Oct 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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