Controls PLC Programming Engineer

Advanced Giga Inc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 39,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Giga Inc. designs, fabricates, and deploys modular data center infrastructure for hyperscale operators. We are an engineering-led manufacturer owning the full lifecycle from design to on-site commissioning.

We are a small, high-impact team where decisions directly shape multi-million-dollar programs. The Electrical and Controls Technician role ensures rigorous checkout and FAT readiness for our modules and supports startup and commissioning on hyperscale sites.

Qualifications

• Journeyman-level electrical credential or 3+ years as an industrial E&I technician.
• Hands-on industrial wiring and checkout experience: panels, MCCs, VFDs, field instruments.
• Able to read schematics, loop sheets, and panel drawings.
• Test equipment fluency: multimeter, megger, process calibrator.
• LOTO and NFPA 70E safe-work discipline.
• Careful, honest documentation habits.

Responsibilities

• Perform point-to-point checks from field devices through panels to controllers, and document every point.
• QC terminations: torque, labeling, ferrules, shield landing, and separation practice per drawings.
• Support instrument loop checks with process calibrators and multimeters under the controls engineer's direction.
• Load VFD parameters, verify motor rotation, and support first-run checks.
• Execute panel checkout: power-up checks, I/O verification, fuse and breaker verification, and wiring corrections.
• Run megger and continuity tests under the electrical engineer's supervision and record results.
• Maintain calibrated test equipment and the E&C tool crib.
• Red-line drawings accurately as built and turn in clean documentation.
• Assist FAT execution and client witness days for the electrical and controls scope.

Skills

Wiring & checkout

Schematics reading

Test equipment fluency

LOTO & NFPA 70E safety

Documentation habits

Education

Journeyman electrical credential

3+ years industrial E&I experience

Tools

Multimeter

Megger

Process calibrator

Job description

Advanced Giga Inc. designs, fabricates, and deploys modular data center infrastructure for hyperscale operators. Our flagship products, the MDH (Modular Data Hall), MTCS (Modular Technology Cooling System), and MES (Modular Energy Server), are factory-built, tested, and commissioned before they ever leave our facility. We are not a general contractor. We are an engineering-led manufacturer that owns the full lifecycle: design, fabrication, controls integration, factory acceptance testing, delivery, and on-site commissioning.

We are a small, high-impact team where your decisions directly shape outcomes on programs worth tens of millions of dollars. If you have spent your career inside large organizations and are looking for a place where your experience actually gets used, not diluted across layers of bureaucracy, this is it.

The Role

AGI is hiring an Electrical and Controls Technician to execute the electrical and controls checkout that every module goes through before FAT: terminations verified, points rung out, instruments looped, panels checked, and deficiencies written up honestly so they get fixed before the client is watching.

This is a craft seat with a growth path into startup and commissioning work on hyperscale sites.

What You Will Actually Do

• Perform point-to-point checks from field devices through panels to controllers, and document every point
• QC terminations: torque, labeling, ferrules, shield landing, and separation practice per drawings
• Support instrument loop checks with process calibrators and multimeters under the controls engineer's direction
• Load VFD parameters, verify motor rotation, and support first-run checks
• Execute panel checkout: power-up checks, I/O verification, fuse and breaker verification, and wiring corrections
• Run megger and continuity tests under the electrical engineer's supervision and record results
• Maintain calibrated test equipment and the E&C tool crib
• Red-line drawings accurately as built and turn in clean documentation
• Assist FAT execution and client witness days for the electrical and controls scope

Who You Are

• Journeyman-level electrical credential or 3+ years as an industrial E&I technician
• Hands-on industrial wiring and checkout experience: panels, MCCs, VFDs, field instruments
• Able to read schematics, loop sheets, and panel drawings
• Test equipment fluency: multimeter, megger, process calibrator
• LOTO and NFPA 70E safe-work discipline
• Careful, honest documentation habits

Preferred (Not Required)

• Instrumentation calibration experience or NICET/ISA coursework
• PLC familiarity (recognizing I/O, forcing points under direction)
• Data center, semiconductor, or industrial plant experience
• TDLR license; OSHA 10/30

What We Offer

• Direct impact on a high-growth company at the intersection of manufacturing and critical infrastructure
• Ownership of your domain: you set the processes, you build the relationships, you drive the outcomes
• A technical leadership team that speaks your language (engineering-led company, not sales-led)