Data Center Controls & Automation Engineer

TeraWulf Inc.; West Palm Beach, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

TeraWulf Inc. is seeking a Controls Engineer to lead owner-side controls for BMS, EPMS, SCADA, PLCs, and metering across data-center projects. You will ensure observability, operability, and secure integration with IT/OT systems.

Ideal candidates bring 5–8 years in controls, data centers or large MEP systems, with strong CS/automation knowledge and willingness to travel up to 25%. This role requires a bachelor’s in a related engineering field and familiarity with industry standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Controls Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
• 5–8 years of progressive experience in controls, automation, BMS, EPMS, SCADA, industrial systems, or mission-critical facility operations.
• Direct experience with data centers, central plants, industrial facilities, utilities, or large-scale commercial MEP systems strongly preferred.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% for jobsites, design reviews, FATs, commissioning activities, vendor visits, and key project milestones.
• PE, EIT, controls certifications, cybersecurity credentials, or platform-specific certifications a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the owner-side controls engineering resource for BMS, EPMS, SCADA, PLCs, metering, controls networks, dashboards, and related OT systems.
• Support development of controls standards, integration requirements, points lists, alarm standards, trending requirements, dashboard requirements, and sequence-of-operation expectations.
• Review controls architecture for reliability, cybersecurity, network segmentation, maintainability, commissioning readiness, and operational usability.
• Coordinate controls requirements across mechanical, electrical, EPMS, BMS, fire alarm, security, IT/OT, commissioning, and tenant systems.
• Review controls drawings, specifications, sequences of operation, control diagrams, network architecture, points lists, graphics packages, alarm matrices, and integration narratives.
• Support vendor and integrator evaluation, including BMS/EPMS platforms, PLC-based systems, SCADA tools, metering platforms, data historians, and dashboarding solutions.
• Participate in FATs, factory testing, software demonstrations, controls bench testing, commissioning, IST, and construction-to-operations turnover.
• Support tenant-facing Solutions Engineering by translating tenant controls, monitoring, telemetry, data-feed, API, alarm, and reporting requirements into actionable design criteria.
• Help define controls scope demarcations between Landlord base build, tenant fit-out, tenant equipment, vendor packages, and operational integrations.
• Support lease exhibits, technical narratives, responsibility matrices, and SLA-related monitoring requirements where controls data is needed to validate performance.
• Support Program Delivery through milestone drawing reviews, RFI and submittal review, change assessment, issue tracking, field coordination, and turnover documentation.
• Identify gaps in monitoring, alarming, controllability, data quality, system integration, commissioning scripts, and operational readiness; drive issues to resolution.

Skills

Industrial controls

BMS/EPMS/SCADA

OT networks

Data center monitoring

Cybersecurity awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Controls/Electrical/Mechanical/Computer Engineering or related

Job description

TeraWulf Inc. is seeking a Controls Engineer to lead owner-side controls for BMS, EPMS, SCADA, PLCs, and metering across data-center projects. You will ensure observability, operability, and secure integration with IT/OT systems.

Ideal candidates bring 5–8 years in controls, data centers or large MEP systems, with strong CS/automation knowledge and willingness to travel up to 25%. This role requires a bachelor’s in a related engineering field and familiarity with industry standards.