Senior Mechanical Controls Engineer

Role description

Role Overview

Lambda is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. The Senior Mechanical Controls Engineer will own controls standards and reference architectures for mechanical systems supporting large-scale AI data centers.

What You Will Do

The role involves developing control narratives, sequences of operation, points lists, alarm matrices, cause-and-effect diagrams, and controller requirements. The engineer will also design system behavior for startup, shutdown, maintenance, component failure, utility loss, and recovery.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have experience designing or commissioning mechanical controls for data centers, mission-critical facilities, central plants, or industrial environments. They will also understand chilled-water, condenser-water, heat-rejection, air-cooling, and liquid-cooling systems.

Requirements

• Have experience designing or commissioning mechanical controls for data centers, mission-critical facilities, central plants, or industrial environments.
• Understand chilled-water, condenser-water, heat-rejection, air-cooling, and liquid-cooling systems.
• Can develop and review sequences of operation, P&IDs, control diagrams, wiring diagrams, points lists, and functional test procedures.
• Understand PLC, DDC, and BMS architectures and common protocols such as BACnet, Modbus, and OPC UA.
• Have experience with instrumentation, sensor selection, control loops, alarms, interlocks, and equipment safeties.
• Hold a bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, controls, or systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use