Controls Engineer, SCADA

Fluidstack

$90K — $120K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in designing and commissioning SCADA or industrial control systems for critical facilities.
  • Strong integration skills with field devices and protocols like Modbus, BACnet, DNP3, or OPC UA.
  • Experience building trusted HMI and alarm systems under fault conditions.
  • Proven ability to standardize controls or telemetry designs for repeatable deployments.
  • Expertise in identifying instrumentation and data-quality issues during commissioning phases.
  • Skill in creating precise configuration and point documentation for engineering teams.
  • Bonus: Experience in high-density power environments and familiarity with SCADA platforms like Ignition or AVEVA.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy SCADA architecture that monitors power and cooling systems in real-time.
  • Integrate telemetry from multiple sources into a unified data platform for holistic site visibility.
  • Build and maintain tag databases, HMI screens, and alarm logic for operational teams.
  • Standardize the SCADA and telemetry stack to enable repeatable designs for new sites.
  • Validate points and signals with teams before site goes live for high data reliability.

Benefits

  • Commitment to pay equity and transparency in the workplace.
Full Job Description
Role Scope
  • - Design and deploy the SCADA architecture that monitors and controls power, cooling, and mechanical systems across gigawatt-scale data center sites in real time.
  • - Integrate telemetry from switchgear, generators, chillers, and building management systems into a unified data platform so operators see the full state of a site from a single view.
  • - Build the tag databases, HMI screens, and alarm logic that let a lean operations team run live sites without missing a fault.
  • - Standardize the SCADA and telemetry stack into a repeatable reference design so each new site deploys the same instrumentation and data model rather than a bespoke build.
  • - Validate every point and signal with the controls, commissioning, and operations teams before a site goes live, so the data operators depend on is trustworthy from day one.
What We're Looking For
  • **The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.**
  • - You've designed and commissioned SCADA or industrial control systems for critical facilities, mission-critical, industrial, or power infrastructure.
  • - You've integrated field devices and protocols (Modbus, BACnet, DNP3, OPC UA) into a working telemetry platform rather than a pile of disconnected points.
  • - You've built HMI and alarm systems that operators actually trusted and used under real fault conditions.
  • - You've standardized a controls or telemetry design so it could be deployed repeatably across multiple sites instead of rebuilt each time.
  • - You've caught instrumentation and data-quality problems during commissioning before they reached a live operations team.
  • - You write configuration and point documentation precise enough that another engineer can maintain or extend the system without reverse-engineering it.
  • - Bonus: Data center or high-density power environment experience. Ignition, AVEVA, or comparable SCADA platforms. Time-series data pipelines and historians. Level 4 and Level 5 commissioning exposure.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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