Staff Controls Operator, Data Center Operations

Fluidstack

$90K — $130K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in mission-critical facility operations, including data centers, industrial, or power.
  • Deep expertise in BMS, SCADA, and EPMS platforms for fault diagnosis and configuration.
  • Experience writing operational procedures and runbooks that are actively utilized by teams.
  • Proven ability to resolve real-time control faults under pressure in a live environment.
  • Skilled in tuning control sequences and setpoints to balance reliability, efficiency, and cost.
  • Ability to catch and address potential issues before they lead to outages.
  • (Bonus) Experience in hyperscale or colocation data centers, liquid cooling controls, and electrical power monitoring.

Responsibilities

  • Run BMS, SCADA, and EPMS for gigawatt-scale data centers, ensuring real-time cooling and power management.
  • Manage load and thermal control for multiple sites, optimizing operations during construction phases.
  • Draft and implement operating procedures and control sequences that set industry standards.
  • Diagnose and resolve control faults swiftly to maintain operational integrity.
  • Tune control sequences and setpoints to optimize PUE and reliability amid changing loads.

Benefits

  • Full autonomy and ownership in your role, promoting a culture of extreme ownership.
  • Fast-paced and dynamic work environment, focused on driving results.
  • Engagement with cutting-edge AI and innovative problem-solving.
  • Opportunities to set new operational standards in a fast-evolving industry.
Full Job Description
How We Operate
  • - **Extreme ownership. ** Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
  • - **Velocity. ** We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
  • - **First principles. ** Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
  • - **Love of the game. ** The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
The Data Center Operations Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on
  • - **Operate at the scale of a nation, not a building.** The fleet you run will draw more power than some countries, on the way to tens of gigawatts.
  • - **Fly the plane while it's being built.** Sites come online in pieces, and you keep the live ones running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
  • - **Write the playbook, don't inherit it.** No prior operations org has run at this speed and scale, so the standards you set become the standard.
Role Scope
  • - Run the building management and controls systems (BMS, SCADA, EPMS) that keep live gigawatt-scale data centers cooling and powered in real time.
  • - Own real-time load and thermal control across sites coming online in pieces, keeping the live halls running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
  • - Write the operating procedures, alarm response runbooks, and control sequences that become the standard for every site that follows.
  • - Diagnose and resolve controls faults on the floor, from a misbehaving chiller sequence to a breaker mis-operation, before they touch a training run.
  • - Tune control sequences and setpoints to hold PUE and reliability targets as load ramps and hardware generations change.
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 operated the controls for live mission-critical facilities, data center, industrial, or power, and kept them running through faults, ramps, and construction next door.
  • - You know BMS, SCADA, and EPMS platforms deep enough to diagnose a bad sequence or a misconfigured point, not just read the alarm.
  • - You've written operating procedures and alarm response runbooks that other operators actually run.
  • - You've resolved a real controls fault under pressure, on a live floor, with load on the line.
  • - You tune control sequences and setpoints and can explain the tradeoff between reliability, efficiency, and cost.
  • - You catch the drifting sensor or the wrong setpoint before it becomes an outage.
  • - **Bonus:** Hyperscale or colocation data center operations. Liquid cooling controls. Electrical power monitoring systems. Behind-the-meter generation. Building the controls standards for a new fleet.


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