Lead / Principal Controls Engineer, Design Development

Fluidstack•Austin, TX

2d•$200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, focusing on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else. This involves rethinking every layer of the stack, from acquiring power to designing, building, and operating data centers. The company operates with extreme ownership, velocity, first principles, and a deep passion for the problem space. The Controls Team is central to this mission, working on delivering controls for over 50GW of data centers this decade, real-time load control, MEP and behind-the-meter integration, automating commissioning, and driving autonomous robotic deployment.

Requirements

Led a controls or design engineering team, with responsibility for both technical output and personnel.
Set controls design standards, reference architectures, or specifications used across multiple projects.
Authored or owned Division 25 integrated automation specifications and understand field performance versus change orders.
Written sequences of operations and seen them through to working code, assessing buildability.
Make and defend design decisions quickly with mechanical, electrical, and construction stakeholders.
Hired controls engineers and developed team members' skills, with a track record of trusted team output.
Experience with modular or productized data center delivery.
Knowledge of data center mechanical and electrical systems (chiller plants, CRAH/CRAC, fan wall units, switchgear).
Experience with BMS and SCADA platforms over BACnet and Modbus.
Experience with CSI MasterFormat and Division 25 authorship.
Experience building a controls design function from a small team.

Responsibilities

Lead the controls design development team, owning template designs, SOOs, points lists, BOMs, and Division 25 specifications for modular data center builds.
Set the technical direction for controls design, establishing standards, platforms, and reference architectures for the entire fleet.
Drive design decisions to resolution across mechanical, electrical, commissioning, and construction teams to ensure controls design does not impede site schedules.
Grow the team by hiring controls engineers and improving the quality of their design work.
Own the quality and repeatability of all design packages produced by the team, ensuring faster and cleaner designs for subsequent sites.
Own real-time load control and MEP and behind-the-meter integration.
Automate Level 4 and Level 5 commissioning.
Drive autonomous, robotic deployment.