Controls Engineer, SCADA

Fluidstack

$90K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience designing and commissioning SCADA or industrial control systems for critical facilities.
  • Proficient in integrating field devices and protocols such as Modbus, BACnet, DNP3, and OPC UA.
  • Skilled in building reliable HMI and alarm systems for real-world applications.
  • Ability to standardize control designs for repeatable site deployments.
  • Keen eye for catching instrumentation and data-quality issues during commissioning.
  • Exceptional documentation skills for system maintenance and extension.
  • Bonus: Experience with data centers or high-density power environments, Ignition, AVEVA, or similar SCADA platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy SCADA architecture for monitoring power, cooling, and mechanical systems.
  • Integrate telemetry from various systems into a unified data platform for real-time site visibility.
  • Build tag databases, HMI screens, and alarm logic for effective operations management.
  • Standardize SCADA and telemetry stack for consistent site deployment.
  • Validate every point and signal with stakeholders before site launch to ensure data reliability.

Benefits

  • Commitment to pay equity and transparency.
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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