Controls Engineer

Ursus, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 164,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Commuter benefits

401K with company match

Job summary

Ursus, Inc. is seeking a Rack Systems Architect, Technical Lead to own controls engineering for mission-critical sites in Austin, TX. The role covers design review, integration oversight, and commissioning support across data centers and industrial facilities.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience with building controls, BACnet/Modbus, and cross-discipline coordination, with strong scripting and FAT/SAT/IST exposure. Occasional travel up to 30% is expected.

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing or supporting controls for mission-critical environments.
• Experience reading sequences of operation, points lists, and architecture diagrams.
• Experience reviewing submittals, graphics, network architectures, and narratives.
• Ability to identify design deficiencies and commissioning risks before field deployment.
• Experience coordinating with mechanical, electrical, power, cooling, life-safety, and control systems.
• Experience supporting Level 3–5 commissioning activities and turnover.

Responsibilities

• Own controls engineering for assigned sites: design review, integration oversight, and commissioning support.
• Review controls submittals against architecture, points, sequences, and graphics.
• Oversee integrator programming quality before field deployment.
• Support Level 3–5 commissioning with engineering answers in hours.

Skills

Building controls

Data centers

Sequences of operation

Systems integration

Cross-functional coordination

Troubleshooting controls

Networking for controls

OT cybersecurity

Tools

Niagara

Tridium

Ignition

Siemens Desigo

Schneider EcoStruxure

Johnson Controls Metasys

Job description

JOB TITLE

Rack Systems Architect, Technical Lead

LOCATION

Austin, TX highly preferred. Secondary preference would be candidates who can work out of the NYC, SFO, or Seattle offices. Third option that is acceptable is remote for very strong senior level candidates. 30% travel required for all.

DURATION

FTE Direct Hire

PAY RANGE

$164-206K; offers equity

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of experience supporting building controls, industrial controls, Client, EPMS, SCADA, automation systems, or mission-critical infrastructure projects.
• Experience designing, reviewing, programming, commissioning, or supporting controls systems for data centers, industrial facilities, manufacturing plants, utility infrastructure, or mission-critical environments.
• Experience reading, developing, and troubleshooting sequences of operation, points lists, controls architecture diagrams, and controls documentation.
• Experience reviewing controls submittals, graphics, network architectures, control narratives, and integrator deliverables.
• Ability to identify controls design deficiencies, integration issues, sequence conflicts, and commissioning risks before deployment to the field.
• Experience supporting system integration between mechanical, electrical, power monitoring, cooling, life-safety, and control systems.
• Experience supporting Level 3, Level 4, and Level 5 commissioning activities including functional testing, troubleshooting, deficiency resolution, and turnover.
• Experience working directly with controls contractors, systems integrators, commissioning agents, OEMs, and engineering teams.
• Experience troubleshooting controls issues from the field device, point list, network, controller, and sequence-of-operation levels.
• Working knowledge of BACnet, Modbus, TCP/IP networking, and common industrial or building automation communication protocols.
• Experience supporting mission-critical operations where uptime, reliability, and redundancy are key design requirements.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience supporting hyperscale data centers, colocation facilities, AI infrastructure, critical facilities, semiconductor facilities, or industrial automation environments.
• Experience with Niagara, Tridium, Ignition, Siemens Desigo, ALC, Schneider EcoStruxure, Johnson Controls Metasys, or similar Client/Client platforms.
• Experience supporting EPMS systems and electrical monitoring infrastructure.
• Experience integrating chillers, cooling towers, CDUs, liquid-cooling systems, pumps, generators, switchgear, UPS systems, and power monitoring equipment into controls platforms.
• Experience reviewing or modifying PLC logic and industrial control programs.
• Experience performing factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), and integrated systems testing (IST).
• Experience supporting controls commissioning for liquid-cooling or direct-to-chip cooling environments.
• Experience with control-system networking, OT infrastructure, industrial cybersecurity, and controls protocol integration.
• Familiarity with alarming strategies, graphics standards, trend analysis, data validation, and controls documentation standards.
• Experience supporting fast-track construction, commissioning, and data center deployment programs.

The Capacity Delivery Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Engineer gigawatts from drawing to energized, in months not years. Capacity Delivery owns technical execution across every build: the drawings, the field questions, and the engineering calls that keep multiple concurrent gigawatt sites moving.

• Engineer data centers that go up in months, not years. At that pace rework is not an option: problems get caught on paper or they cost a data hall.

• Design it once, build it a hundred times. Every site's lessons roll into the reference design on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs, so each build starts ahead of the last.

Role Scope

• Own controls engineering for assigned sites: Client and EPMS design review, integration oversight, and commissioning support.

• Review controls submittals against the standard: architecture, points, sequences, graphics.

• Oversee integrator programming quality before it reaches the field.

• Support Level 3 through 5 commissioning with engineering answers in hours.

What We're Looking For

• You’ve engineered building or industrial controls on mission critical projects.

• You read and write sequences of operations.

• You’ve reviewed integrator work and sent it back with specifics.

• You debug controls issues from the points list up.

• Bonus: Niagara or Ignition. EPMS platforms. Networking for controls. Commissioning experience.

BENEFITS SUMMARY

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.

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FAIR CHANCE POLICY

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.