Controls Engineer, Design Development

About the role

The Controls Team at Fluidstack is responsible for delivering the controls behind 50GW+ of data centers. They work on automating level 4 and level 5 commissioning, driving autonomous robotic deployment, and creating templates for fully modular data center builds.

Responsibilities

• Create template controls designs for fully modular data center builds.
• Write sequences of operations defining how mechanical and electrical systems run.
• Hand these sequences to the programming team as the source of truth for the code.
• Build standard points lists and bills of materials for instrumentation, IO, and controls hardware.
• Coordinate the controls design across mechanical, electrical, and commissioning teams to ensure it matches the equipment and tests required.

Requirements

• You have produced controls design packages, drawings, points lists, or specifications that contractors or programmers built from without coming back with a list of questions.
• You have written sequences of operations for mechanical or electrical systems and seen them implemented in real controllers, so you understand where a vague SOO breaks down in code.
• You have authored or owned a Division 25 integrated automation specification, or an equivalent controls spec, and kept it accurate across multiple projects.
• You have built standard points lists and BOMs, and you know how a wrong point count or a mis-specified device shows up as a change order months later.
• You design for repeatability, turning one-off engineering into templates that get reused rather than redrawing every project from scratch.
• You catch the coordination gaps between mechanical, electrical, and controls scopes before they reach the field.

Qualifications

• Data center mechanical and electrical systems (chiller plants, CRAH/CRAC, fan wall units, switchgear).
• Modular or productized build delivery.
• BMS and SCADA platforms over BACnet and Modbus.
• CSI MasterFormat and Division 25 spec writing.
• Points list and IO schedule tooling.

Skills

• Experience in controls design and implementation.
• Knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems in data centers.
• Ability to write clear and precise documentation.
• Strong understanding of automation and control systems.
• Experience with BMS and SCADA platforms.
• Proficiency in Division 25 and CSI MasterFormat.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation range of $200,000 - $250,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
• Offers equity in the form of stock options.
• We are committed to pay equity and transparency.
• Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Pay

$200,000 - $250,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

Schedule

Not specified.