Role Scope- Lead the controls design development team, owning the template designs, SOOs, points lists, BOMs, and Division 25 specifications that every modular data center build inherits.
- Set the technical direction for controls design, deciding the standards, platforms, and reference architectures the whole fleet builds from.
- Drive design decisions to resolution across mechanical, electrical, commissioning, and construction, so controls design is never the thing holding up a site's schedule.
- Grow the team, hiring controls engineers and raising the bar on the design work they produce.
- Own the quality and repeatability of every design package that leaves the team, so the hundredth site is designed faster and cleaner than the first.
What We're Looking ForThe 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 led a controls or design engineering team, owning both the technical output and the people producing it.
- You've set controls design standards, reference architectures, or specifications that others built from across multiple projects, not just delivered your own designs.
- You've authored or owned Division 25 integrated automation specifications, and you know what separates a spec that holds up in the field from one that generates change orders.
- You've written sequences of operations and seen them through to working code, so you can tell when a design is genuinely buildable and not just correct on paper.
- You make design decisions fast and defend them across mechanical, electrical, and construction stakeholders who each want something different.
- You've hired controls engineers and grown people from competent to excellent, and other teams trust the work your team ships.
- Bonus: Modular or productized data center delivery. Data center mechanical and electrical systems (chiller plants, CRAH/CRAC, fan wall units, switchgear). BMS and SCADA platforms over BACnet and Modbus. CSI MasterFormat and Division 25 authorship. Building a controls design function up from a small team.
Compensation: $250,000 - $300,000 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.
