Controls Engineer, Design Development

Fluidstack•Austin, TX

2d•$200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Fluidstack is seeking a Controls Engineer to join their Design Development team. This role is crucial in delivering the controls for over 50GW of data centers this decade, focusing on real-time load control, MEP and behind-the-meter integration, automating commissioning, and driving autonomous robotic deployment. The Controls Engineer will be responsible for creating template controls designs for modular data center builds, writing sequences of operations, building standard points lists and bills of materials, owning the Division 25 integrated automation specification, and coordinating controls design across mechanical, electrical, and commissioning teams.

Requirements

Produced controls design packages, drawings, points lists, or specifications that a contractor or programmer built from without coming back with a list of questions.
Written sequences of operations for mechanical or electrical systems and seen them implemented in real controllers.
Authored or owned a Division 25 integrated automation specification, or an equivalent controls spec, and kept it accurate across multiple projects.
Built standard points lists and BOMs.
Designs for repeatability, turning one-off engineering into templates that get reused rather than redrawing every project from scratch.
Catches the coordination gaps between mechanical, electrical, and controls scopes before they reach the field.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Create template controls designs for fully modular data center builds.
Write sequences of operations for mechanical and electrical systems.
Build standard points lists and bills of materials for instrumentation, IO, and controls hardware.
Own the Division 25 integrated automation specification end to end.
Coordinate the controls design across mechanical, electrical, and commissioning teams.