Controls Engineer — Onsite Data Center Projects & Growth

Riot Platforms, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Sign-on equity grant

401(k) matching

Company-paid health coverage

Gym membership

Pet insurance

Childcare discounts

Job summary

Riot Platforms, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Controls Engineer to lead commissioning and project delivery on-site at our Rockdale, Texas facilities.

You will work with operations, thermal and mechanical teams to deploy liquid-cooled, mission-critical data center infrastructure and grow the controls organization. You’ll own on-site commissioning, vendor management for deployments up to 200 MW, monitor alarms, and mentor junior engineers while developing robust controls standards and governance

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of controls engineering experience in data center or mission-critical infrastructure.
• Hands-on commissioning and vendor management experience.
• Strong working knowledge of EPMS and BMS/SCADA integration and commissioning.
• Familiarity with industrial protocols such as BACnet, Modbus, and OPC-UA.
• Comfort owning incident response and change management for live, critical infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead on-site commissioning and project management across deployments — including close-out, warranty resolution, and vendor management, which recur on every project we bring online
• Own commissioning and vendor management for new deployments as they come online, including projects as large as 200 MW
• Support monitoring, alarm thresholds, and controls integration for our liquid-cooled infrastructure, working alongside our thermal and mechanical teams
• Lead hands-on, on-site troubleshooting and technical support for our operations teams
• Mentor and directly help develop junior controls team members, including team members transitioning into controls engineering roles
• As your on-site workload stabilizes, grow into reviewing — and eventually co-owning — our controls standards and governance documentation

Skills

Controls engineering

Data center exposure

Incident response

Change management

Vendor management

Tools

EPMS

BMS/SCADA

BACnet

Modbus

OPC-UA

Job description

Riot Platforms, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Controls Engineer to lead commissioning and project delivery on-site at our Rockdale, Texas facilities.

You will work with operations, thermal and mechanical teams to deploy liquid-cooled, mission-critical data center infrastructure and grow the controls organization. You’ll own on-site commissioning, vendor management for deployments up to 200 MW, monitor alarms, and mentor junior engineers while developing robust controls standards and governance