Controls Engineer, Energy Management
FluidStack — Austin, Texas, United States · Remote · Senior · $120k - $150k/yearly
Role description
Role Overview
We're looking for a Controls Engineer to join our Facility Controls team, which builds control systems for data centers. The role involves owning the control and data contract between our facility energy controller and third-party power plant controllers, defining sequences of operation, and specifying point maps, interlocks, and constraint classes.
What You Will Do
You will work on delivering controls behind gigawatt-scale data centers, automating Level 4 and Level 5 commissioning, and driving autonomous, robotic deployment.
Why It Might Be a Fit
We're looking for someone who is fluent in both the controls world and the software world, can design data contracts, and can push back on assumptions with data-driven arguments.
Requirements
- Experience with protocols that move data between machines and systems (MQTT, OPC UA, REST APIs)
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python or Go preferred)
- Ability to read and write code
- Experience with designing data contracts between systems
- Ability to write control narratives for systems where multiple controllers have to agree
- Fluency in both the controls world and the software world
- Experience with microgrid and behind-the-meter control
- Experience with utility and industrial protocols (DNP3, IEC 61850 GOOSE, IEC 60870-5-104, Modbus TCP)
- Experience with schema-driven contracts (OpenAPI, JSON Schema)
Benefits
- Pay equity and transparency
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Other benefits (not specified)