Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fluidstack is focused on delivering large-scale compute infrastructure for AI. They are seeking a Principal Operations Engineer to lead technical authority for controls systems across their data centers, ensuring operational readiness and standardization of processes.
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
Skills
- You've spent a career programming, commissioning, and operating controls on complex central plants and critical environments
- You have platform-agnostic command of modern BMS/BAS (Ignition, Niagara, Metasys, EcoStruxure) earned in the field, plus PLC programming on at least one major platform
- You're fluent across BACnet, Modbus, SNMP, and the other major controls protocols, and you know the mechanical, electrical, and fire/life safety systems they coordinate
- You've authored and executed high-risk controls MOPs in live critical environments, and led root cause analysis on significant events through to closure
- You hold integrators, OEMs, and vendors to a programming and documentation standard without burning the relationship
- You teach. Operational health assessments, RCAs, sequences, and design feedback are second nature, and you build the people around you up
- Bonus: Hyperscale or large colocation at hundreds of MW+
- EPMS platforms and DCIM
- Historians and scripting in Python or SQL
- OT network segmentation and cybersecurity
Benefits
- Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
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