Lead Controls Systems Engineer, Deployment Engineering

Fluidstack

$300K — $340K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering or related field.
  • Experience overseeing full lifecycle deployment and commissioning of control systems on industrial or mission-critical sites.
  • Hands-on commissioning and troubleshooting of PLCs, SCADA systems, and HMIs in live environments.
  • Proven ability to establish standards and procedures applicable at a portfolio level.
  • Skilled at diagnosing control system failures and addressing integration issues under pressure.
  • Experience mentoring controls engineers to enhance their commissioning capabilities.
  • Willingness to travel 50-70% for deployment and operations site visits.

Responsibilities

  • Lead deployment and commissioning of BMS, SCADA, and EPMS systems across multiple greenfield sites.
  • Ensure operational reliability of control systems in the live fleet; perform root cause analysis on failures.
  • Develop and maintain commissioning standards, acceptance test procedures, and operational runbooks.
  • Conduct integrated systems testing, functional acceptance, and on-site live cutover issues resolution.
  • Establish and enforce reliability standards including alarm rationalization and redundancy validation.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship.
  • Work on large-scale projects with significant impact on infrastructure reliability.
  • Collaborative team environment focused on continual improvement and feedback loops.
Full Job Description
The Deployment Engineering Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on
  • Turn 50GW+ of design into 50GW+ of built, running infrastructure. The Design team sets the blueprint. This team is where it survives contact with a live construction schedule and becomes a real site.
  • Close the gap between engineering-complete and operations-ready. A design that passes review still has to survive commissioning, integration, and energization, and that gap is where deployment work lives.
  • Make the tenth site faster and cleaner than the first. Every deployment feeds field learnings back into the standards, so a one-off fight at one site becomes a repeatable playbook at the next.
  • Hand off infrastructure that's reliable from the moment it goes live. AI compute workloads don't tolerate a shaky handover, so what this team commissions has to run right the day operations takes over.


Role Scope
  • Lead end-to-end deployment and commissioning of BMS, SCADA, and EPMS systems across concurrent greenfield sites, from pre-deployment readiness through live handover to operations.
  • Own operational reliability of deployed control systems across the live fleet, driving root cause analysis on failures and closing out permanent fixes that stop repeat incidents.
  • Build and maintain the commissioning standards, acceptance test procedures, and runbooks that any site team can execute without central support.
  • Lead integrated systems testing, functional acceptance, and live cutover on site, resolving integration failures before they delay handover.
  • Set and enforce controls reliability standards across the portfolio: alarm rationalization, control loop tuning, redundancy validation, and failover testing.


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 hold a bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
  • You've owned field deployment and commissioning of controls systems on industrial or mission-critical facilities from end to end.
  • You've commissioned and troubleshooted PLCs, SCADA systems, and HMIs on at least one major platform (Rockwell, Siemens, Ignition, or equivalent) in live environments.
  • You've built commissioning standards, acceptance test procedures, and reliability runbooks that hold up at a portfolio level, not just for a single site.
  • You've diagnosed and resolved control system failures and integration issues on live or commissioning-phase infrastructure under time pressure.
  • You've mentored controls engineers in the field and built their ability to commission independently.
  • You can travel to deployment and operations sites 50 to 70 percent of the time.
  • Bonus: Professional Engineer (PE) license. Data center BMS/EPMS experience across chilled water, HVAC, power monitoring, and data hall environmental systems. Experience building or leading a controls commissioning or reliability program across multiple concurrent sites. Familiarity with CMMS platforms, ISA-18.2 alarm management, and IEC 62443 control system cybersecurity. Experience with controls system virtualization, remote monitoring, and automated diagnostics.


Compensation: $300,000 - $340,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. Offers equity in the form of stock options.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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