Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fluidstack builds civilization-scale compute infrastructure for artificial intelligence, including power systems and data centers. The Principal Operations Engineer, Controls will serve as the senior technical authority for controls across the fleet, owning BMS changes, audits, operational readiness, high-risk procedures, and root cause analysis while traveling extensively across sites.
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 can walk into any site and own the front-end within a day
- 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
- 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
- Equity in the form of restricted stock units
- 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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