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 ensuring that the mechanical and electrical systems run efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Create template controls designs for fully modular data center builds.
• Write sequences of operations that define how mechanical and electrical systems run.
• Hand these sequences to the programming team as the source of truth for the code.
• Build the standard points lists and bills of materials that lock the instrumentation, IO, and controls hardware.
• Coverage of Division 25 integrated automation specification end-to-end, keeping it current as equipment, vendors, and site designs change.
• Coordinate the controls design across the mechanical, electrical, and commissioning teams.

Requirements

• You have produced controls design packages, drawings, points lists, or specifications that a contractor or programmer 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 know 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 creating controls design packages, drawings, points lists, or specifications.
• Knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems in data centers.
• Ability to write sequences of operations for mechanical or electrical systems.
• Experience with Division 25 integrated automation specifications.
• Proficiency in building standard points lists and BOMs.
• Strong coordination skills between mechanical, electrical, and controls scopes.

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.
• Commitment to pay equity and transparency.
• Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
• Committed to pay equity and transparency.
• Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

Pay

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

Schedule

Not specified.