Principal Operations Engineer, Controls

Fluidstack

7d•$242,000 - $278,000•Onsite

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 and designing data centers to operating them. The company values extreme ownership, velocity, first principles thinking, and a passion for the problem space. The Controls Team is central to this mission, working on problems such as leading the design and execution of data centers, building real-time load control systems, automating commissioning, and developing autonomous robotic solutions for data center deployment.

Requirements

Spent a career programming, commissioning, and operating controls on complex central plants and critical environments.
Can walk into any site and own the front-end within a day.
Platform-agnostic command of modern BMS/BAS (Ignition, Niagara, Metasys, EcoStruxure) earned in the field.
PLC programming on at least one major platform.
Fluent across BACnet, Modbus, SNMP, and the other major controls protocols.
Knowledge of the mechanical, electrical, and fire/life safety systems they coordinate.
Authored and executed high-risk controls MOPs in live critical environments.
Led root cause analysis on significant events through to closure.
Ability to hold integrators, OEMs, and vendors to a programming and documentation standard without burning the relationship.
Ability to teach: Operational health assessments, RCAs, sequences, and design feedback are second nature, and you build the people around you up.

Nice To Haves

Hyperscale or large colocation at hundreds of MW+.
EPMS platforms and DCIM.
Historians and scripting in Python or SQL.
OT network segmentation and cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

Serve as the most senior technical authority for BMS, EPMS, PLC, and equipment-level controls across the fleet.
Own every material BMS change across the fleet and serve as final technical approver for high-consequence changes. Standardize where it matters, enforce change control everywhere it matters.
Lead technical and operational site audits on sequences, alarming, trending, integration health, and cybersecurity, and own the remediation roadmap through closure.
Personally sign off on controls operational readiness and the handover from commissioning to steady-state operations for every new site.
Feed operational learnings back into design and manufacturing as we shift to repeatable, productized builds, including standing up a full BMS in two days.
Author and approve high-risk MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs, and lead root cause analysis on significant controls events through to closure.
Travel 50 to 75% across the fleet. The work is in the field, not at a desk.