PCS Hardware Engineer

Xyntek Inc; Frederick (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Catalyx is seeking a PCS Hardware Engineer to lead the design, coordination, and documentation of physical hardware for Emerson DeltaV DCS installations, ensuring integration with process equipment, instrumentation, electrical systems and network infrastructure.

You will work across design teams and site personnel to align with standards, support long-term automation roadmaps, and document hardware layouts, cabinets, racks, and power and cooling needs.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing PCS/DCS hardware systems.
• Hands-on with control system cabinets, panels, remote I/O, servers, workstations, networking hardware.
• Experience integrating hardware with vendor equipment and packaged skids.
• Strong understanding of instrumentation, electrical interfaces, industrial networking, and system integration.
• Experience developing hardware design documentation and vendor scopes of work.
• Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams, site personnel, vendors, design-build contractors, and system integrators.
• Strong technical problem-solving, coordination, and communication skills.
• Previous experience supporting large-scale industrial, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or process engineering projects is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and layout of PCS hardware, including cabinets, panels, racks, servers, workstations, network equipment, and power supplies.
• Coordinate with site automation personnel to align designs with site standards, operational needs, and the long-term automation roadmap.
• Review control rooms, equipment layouts, and technical spaces to ensure appropriate access, cable routing, environmental conditions, power, cooling, and maintenance clearances.
• Collaborate with process, instrumentation and controls, electrical, networking, and equipment engineering teams to ensure seamless system integration.
• Support long-lead process equipment integration, including vendor-supplied packages, remote I/O cabinets, hardware interfaces, and definition of vendor scopes of work.
• Identify and resolve hardware layout, interface, and integration issues before procurement, fabrication, installation, and commissioning.
• Develop and maintain PCS hardware design documentation and support related project deliverables.
• Coordinate design requirements with the Design-Build Firm, system integrators, and equipment vendors, serving as the technical design lead for PCS hardware.

Skills

DCS hardware design

Emerson DeltaV

Cabinets & panels design

Remote I/O

Networking hardware

System integration

Job description

Frederick, United States | Posted on 10/23/2026

Catalyx specializes in the science of operational processes. With a footprint across North America and Europe, the company carefully automates and services R&D, production, packaging, and delivery processes—globally—with a sophisticated blend of products, technologies, and lifecycle services. The company was formed in 2022 after CXV Global (Crest Solutions, Xyntek, and VistaLink) and Panacea Technologies joined forces. For over three decades, Catalyx’s partnership-based culture has helped organizations in production-intense, highly regulated industries optimize their operational efficiency, performance, and safety. To learn more about the company's experience and comprehensive suite of capabilities and solutions, visit www.catalyx.ai

Job Description

Catalyx is seeking a PCS Hardware Engineer is responsiblefor leading the design, coordination, and documentation of physical hardwarearrangements for the project’s Emerson DeltaV Distributed Control System (DCS).The role ensures that PCS hardware is properly integrated with processequipment, instrumentation and controls, electrical systems, networking, andfacility layouts while supporting site standards, maintainability, futureexpansion, and successful project execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and layout of PCShardware, including cabinets, panels, racks, servers, workstations, networkequipment, and power supplies.
• Coordinate with site automation personnel toalign designs with site standards, operational needs, and the long-termautomation roadmap.
• Review control rooms, equipment layouts, andtechnical spaces to ensure appropriate access, cable routing, environmentalconditions, power, cooling, and maintenance clearances.
• Collaborate with process, instrumentation andcontrols, electrical, networking, and equipment engineering teams to ensureseamless system integration.
• Support long-lead process equipment integration,including vendor-supplied packages, remote I/O cabinets, hardware interfaces,and definition of vendor scopes of work.
• Identify and resolve hardware layout, interface,and integration issues before procurement, fabrication, installation, andcommissioning.
• Develop and maintain PCS hardware designdocumentation and support related project deliverables.
• Coordinate design requirements with theDesign-Build Firm, system integrators, and equipment vendors, serving as thetechnical design lead for PCS hardware.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing andimplementing PCS/DCS hardware systems, preferably Emerson DeltaV.
• Hands-on experience with control systemcabinets, panels, remote I/O, servers, workstations, networking hardware, andassociated infrastructure.
• Experience integrating control system hardwarewith vendor-supplied process equipment and packaged skids.
• Strong understanding of instrumentation andcontrols, electrical interfaces, industrial networking, equipment layouts, andsystem integration.
• Experience developing hardware designdocumentation, equipment specifications, interface definitions, and vendorscopes of work.
• Ability to collaborate effectively withmultidisciplinary engineering teams, site personnel, vendors, design-buildcontractors, and system integrators.
• Strong technical problem-solving, coordination,and communication skills.
• Previous experience supporting large-scaleindustrial, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or process engineering projects ispreferred.