Commissioning & Deployments Operations Director - Autonomous Buildings
About the role
This is a career-defining opportunity to play a crucial role in a hyper-scale AI company that is transforming the future of autonomous systems, energy, and the built environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead global deployment operations for autonomous HVAC and building systems.
- Lead both Application Engineering and Deployment teams, including oversight of external deployment contractors.
- Establish structured rollout plans, deployment phases, and operational playbooks.
- Ensure deployments meet schedule, quality, and performance targets.
- Identify operational risks early and coordinate cross-team mitigation.
- Plan phased deployments across customer sites.
- Career interface and 24/7 life cycle operations.
- Close the loop between field operations and product engineering.
- Identify recurring issues and deployment friction.
- Build repeatable deployment playbooks that improve with each rollout.
- Help shape the long-term managed services operating model as the product scales.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in the buildings industry or leading large-scale operational autonomous systems rollouts.
- Hands-on experience in robotics systems, mechanical engineering, building automation, retro-commissioning, HVAC systems, or building science.
- Leadership experience managing technical field teams or deployment organizations.
- Field deployment or commissioning experience in commercial or industrial environments.
- Ability to read mechanical drawings and control schematics.
- Comfort working directly with customers, contractors, and technical stakeholders.
- Strong operational leadership and coordination skills.
- Comfort operating in fast-moving, early-stage environments.
- An ability to travel to the EU at least on a quarterly basis.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree, or equivalent experience, in engineering and management.
- Experience deploying complex hardware/software systems.
- Experience in managed services, field engineering, or technical operations.
- Experience coordinating cross-disciplinary teams (engineering, construction, operations).
- A structured, research-minded approach to field rollout.
Skills
- Tech-forward and future-oriented.
- Organize and orchestrate complex deployments and ensure reliable, timely delivery.
- Comfortable in mechanical rooms and in deep technical discussions.
- Motivated by autonomy, robotics, and the future of intelligent infrastructure.
- Lead teams calmly under field pressure and bring structure to complex deployments.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Generous equity share package
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Disability and life Insurance options
- Flex PTO
- Team-building events
- Free catered lunch in the office Monday — Friday
- Free ski pass (We are at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon)
- Free National Park pass
- Onsite Gym
Pay
Competitive compensation
Schedule
Full-time
About PassiveLogic
PassiveLogic enables autonomy for controlled systems and unlocks collaboration between teams to manage those systems. PassiveLogic has reimagined how we design, build, operate, maintain, and manage infrastructural robots, whose current technology has remained unchanged for decades. By using revolutionary physics-based Quantum digital twins and leveraging the world's fastest AI compiler to simulate future-forward controls, PassiveLogic empowers users to easily create their own generative digital twins in minutes to launch autonomous control. This control optimizes for energy use, equipment longevity, and occupant comfort levels in real time for the system’s lifetime. Autonomous control lays the foundation for decarbonization at scale and enables truly smart, connected cities. PassiveLogic is backed by leading investors including nVentures, Era Ventures, Keyframe Capital, Addition, RET Ventures, noa (formerly A/O Proptech), and Brookfield Growth.