Controls Start-Up and Commissioning Engineer

 South Texas (McAllen area)  5+ years  Full-time About AGI Advanced Giga Inc. designs, fabricates, and deploys modular data center infrastructure for hyperscale operators. Our flagship products, the MDH (Modular Data Hall), MTCS (Modular Technology Cooling System), and MES (Modular Energy Server), are factory-built, tested, and commissioned before they ever leave our facility. We are not a general contractor. We are an engineering-led manufacturer that owns the full lifecycle: design, fabrication, controls integration, factory acceptance testing, delivery, and on-site commissioning. We are a small, high-impact team where your decisions directly shape outcomes on programs worth tens of millions of dollars. If you have spent your career inside large organizations and are looking for a place where your experience actually gets used, not diluted across layers of bureaucracy, this is it. The Role AGI is hiring a Controls Start-Up and Commissioning Engineer to prove out the control systems on every module we ship: MDH, MTCS, and MES. Our controls team writes the code; you make it real on the shop floor and at the site. You will own I/O checkout, instrument loop checks, and functional testing of sequences of operation through FAT and commissioning, working shoulder to shoulder with the commissioning superintendent and the mechanical and electrical startup engineers. This is a hands-on field engineering seat. The right person is as comfortable with a loop sheet and a process calibrator as with a trend log, and treats a clean red-line and a complete checklist as the product. What You Will Actually Do Execute I/O checkout and point-to-point verification for module control panels: every input, every output, verified and documentedRun instrument loop checks end to end: transmitter to PLC to HMI, with calibration verification against the instrument indexExecute functional testing of sequences of operation with the PLC engineer: permissives, interlocks, alarms, failure modes, and redundancy scenariosSupport integrated system testing during FAT and SAT, capturing trend data and validating control response against the control narrativeCommission network and communications layers: PLC-to-HMI, Modbus/BACnet integrations with equipment packages, and BMS interface pointsTune loops and adjust setpoints during startup with engineering approval, and document every change back into the master configurationManage controls punch items to closure in the commissioning platform and assemble the controls sections of turnover packagesSupport client witness testing: demonstrate sequences, answer questions, capture comments, and retestFeed field lessons back to the controls team so the next module set tests faster and cleaner Who You Are 5+ years of controls startup, commissioning, or field service on industrial or mission-critical systemsHands-on I/O checkout and loop check experience at scale (hundreds of points per system)Working fluency with Siemens Tia Portal, Allen-Bradley/Rockwell platforms (Studio 5000, FactoryTalk) or equivalentAble to read P&IDs, control narratives, loop sheets, panel drawings, and instrument indexesInstrumentation fundamentals: transmitters, control valves, VFD interfaces, and calibration practiceDisciplined documentation habits: checklists, test records, and red-lines that someone else can pick upComfortable working embedded with trade crews on a fabrication shop floor and on construction sites Preferred (Not Required) Data center controls or BMS commissioning experience (chilled water plants, CRAH/CDU controls)HMI/SCADA experience (Ignition preferred)Industrial networking depth: EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP, BACnet/IP, and network troubleshootingSIS or functional-safety exposureBilingual English/SpanishCxA/CCP or ISA certification What We Offer Performance bonus tied to program delivery milestonesDirect impact on a high-growth company at the intersection of manufacturing and critical infrastructureOwnership of your domain: you set the processes, you build the relationships, you drive the outcomesA technical leadership team that speaks your language (engineering-led company, not sales-led) To Apply Fill out the form below, including a brief description of the largest controls startup or commissioning campaign you have executed (system, point count, and your role). Once submitted, please send your resume to info@advancedgiga.ai. Full-Scale AI DATA CENTER Infrastructure. Fully READY TO OPERATE. FASTER THAN YOU THINk. Explore Our Technology / Request a Consultation  Full-Scale AI DATA CENTER Infrastructure. Fully READY TO OPERATE. FASTER THAN YOU THINk. Explore Our Technology / Request a Consultation Explore Our Technology / Request a Consultation