Controls Engineer, SCADA

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking an experienced SCADA/industrial controls professional to design and deploy the telemetry and HMI stack across gigawatt-scale data center sites. You will integrate field devices and protocols, build alarm logic, and standardize the architecture for repeatable deployments.

You will ensure data accuracy by validating signals with cross‑functional teams before site go‑live. The role emphasizes end‑to‑end ownership, rapid execution, and collaboration with operations to support

Qualifications

• Designed and commissioned SCADA or industrial control systems for critical facilities.
• Integrated field devices and protocols into telemetry platforms.
• Built HMI and alarm systems trusted for real fault conditions.
• Standardized controls/telemetry designs for multi-site deployments.
• Identified instrumentation and data-quality issues during commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy the SCADA architecture for real-time monitoring of data center sites.
• Integrate telemetry from switchgear, generators, chillers, and BMS into a unified data platform.
• Build tag databases, HMI screens, and alarm logic for lean operations.
• Standardize the SCADA/telemetry stack to enable repeatable deployments.
• Validate data with controls, commissioning, and operations teams before go-live.

Skills

SCADA design

Telemetry integration

HMI development

Standards & documentation

Instrumentation data quality

Industrial control systems

Tools

Ignition

AVEVA

OPC UA

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.
• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• Reason from 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.
• Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

Role Scope

• Design and deploy the SCADA architecture that monitors and controls power, cooling, and mechanical systems across gigawatt-scale data center sites in real time.
• Integrate telemetry from switchgear, generators, chillers, and building management systems into a unified data platform so operators see the full state of a site from a single view.
• Build the tag databases, HMI screens, and alarm logic that let a lean operations team run live sites without missing a fault.
• Standardize the SCADA and telemetry stack into a repeatable reference design so each new site deploys the same instrumentation and data model rather than a bespoke build.
• Validate every point and signal with the controls, commissioning, and operations teams before a site goes live, so the data operators depend on is trustworthy from day one.

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 designed and commissioned SCADA or industrial control systems for critical facilities, mission‑critical, industrial, or power infrastructure.
• You’ve integrated field devices and protocols (Modbus, BACnet, DNP3, OPC UA) into a working telemetry platform rather than a pile of disconnected points.
• You’ve built HMI and alarm systems that operators actually trusted and used under real fault conditions.
• You’ve standardized a controls or telemetry design so it could be deployed repeatably across multiple sites instead of rebuilt each time.
• You’ve caught instrumentation and data‑quality problems during commissioning before they reached a live operations team.
• You write configuration and point documentation precise enough that another engineer can maintain or extend the system without reverse‑engineering it.
• Bonus: Data center or high‑density power environment experience. Ignition, AVEVA, or comparable SCADA platforms. Time‑series data pipelines and historians. Level 4 and Level 5 commissioning exposure.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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