SCADA/BMS Engineer — Build AI Data Center Infra Equity

Talanto; Long Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Equity (options) in a startup

401(k) with 4% match

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

HSA/FSA healthcare accounts

Commuter benefits

Periodic team on-sites

Job summary

Giga is building AI data centers and seeks a hands-on SCADA/BMS Engineer to own the Ignition environment, screens, historian, alarms, and dashboards across sites. You will shape templates to deploy quickly as we expand.

The role requires deep SCADA experience and the ability to read electrical/mechanical drawings and work with OT/IT teams. You will travel to active sites regularly and collaborate with network and security teams to ensure reliable data integration and robust operations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining SCADA/HMI applications in Ignition or FactoryTalk, including tag structures, alarm configuration, historian, and operator screens.
• 5+ years designing, programming, and maintaining SCADA or BMS systems in data centers, industrial facilities, utilities, or comparable mission-critical environments.
• Experience owning a SCADA system in production: alarm tuning, historian management, backups, and troubleshooting live issues.
• Strong working knowledge of Modbus TCP, plus familiarity with BACnet and at least one of SNMP, OPC UA, DNP3, or IEC-61850.
• Ability to read mechanical and electrical drawings, one-lines, points lists, and sequences of operation.
• Practical understanding of data center mechanical and electrical infrastructure.
• Willingness to travel to sites regularly.
• Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, controls, or computer engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and architecture of our SCADA and BMS platform across the portfolio: Ignition environment, server and gateway topology, tag structures, naming standards, and redundancy.
• Build and maintain what operations run on: operator screens, historian, trending, alarm configuration and rationalization, dashboards, and reporting.
• Build reusable visualization and tag templates on the first site so each site after it is a deployment rather than a rebuild.
• Integrate data from mechanical and electrical systems into SCADA: chillers, CRAHs, switchgear, generators, UPS, ATS, and metering, primarily over Modbus TCP.
• Work with the network and security teams on the OT side: segmentation from IT, remote access, and getting device data to the SCADA servers reliably.
• Integrate SCADA data with DCIM and other monitoring and reporting platforms.
• Maintain systems in production: software and firmware updates, configuration control, backup and recovery, as‑built documentation, and root cause analysis on system events.
• Support the testing phase at each site by validating points, alarms, and screens against what is actually installed.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation for after‑hours incident response, and act as the escalation point for alarms operations cannot resolve.
• Write and maintain the standards, documentation, and runbooks that let us repeat this at the next site without starting over.

Skills

SCADA/HMI design

Ignition

FactoryTalk

Modbus TCP

BACnet

OPC UA

Electrical drawings

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical/Mechanical/Controls/CE

Tools

Ignition

FactoryTalk

Job description

Giga is building AI data centers and seeks a hands-on SCADA/BMS Engineer to own the Ignition environment, screens, historian, alarms, and dashboards across sites. You will shape templates to deploy quickly as we expand.

The role requires deep SCADA experience and the ability to read electrical/mechanical drawings and work with OT/IT teams. You will travel to active sites regularly and collaborate with network and security teams to ensure reliable data integration and robust operations.