Senior BAS Enterprise Engineer

Clark Group; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Fitness reimbursement

Job summary

Altura is seeking a seasoned Building Automation Engineer to design, implement, and optimize Niagara-based control systems for multiple clients across the U.S. The role emphasizes enterprise-scale analytics integration, cyber-aware networking, and collaborative work with IT teams.

The ideal candidate has Niagara 4 certification and hands-on experience deploying scalable BAS solutions with third-party devices. Hybrid/remote work within the U.S. is considered.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of hands-on building automation experience.
• Strong IT knowledge for BAS networks and security.
• Experience with Niagara networks, licensing, and version control.
• Niagara 4 certification and proficiency with 3rd‑party device integration.
• Ability to troubleshoot BACnet communications across IP and MS/TP.

Responsibilities

• Support development of client technical strategies for Smart Building control systems.
• Design and optimize Niagara programming, graphics, and analytics integration.
• Coordinate enterprise management across multiple clients and vendors.
• Balance ~5% field work with 95% office-based tasks.

Skills

Building automation

IT collaboration

BAS networking

Project oversight

Niagara development

Tools

Niagara 4

JSON development

BACnet stack

3rd-party device integration

Station management

Job description

Scope & Responsibilities

• Support on-going client technical strategy development for Smart Building control systems, including retrofit, new construction, conversion, and optimization projects
• Design, implement, optimize, and manage scalable Niagara programming and graphics supervisors to deliver centralized project optimization and analytics integration across existing and new building control systems
• Support on going enterprise management of open Niagara enterprise automation systems across multiple clients, including direct client engagement and oversight of multiple third party systems integration vendors
• Manage a workload that incorporates roughly 5% field work and 95% office-based work

Required Qualifications

• 5-10 years of direct experience using a variety of building automation systems, including installing, configuring, programming, calibrating, validating and networking BAS serial and Ethernet devices; HVAC unit controls; Lighting controls; Energy metering
• Solid understanding of Information Technology (IT) as it relates to building automation including experience collaborating and communicating with Information Technology personnel, experience and know how prescribing reliable, secure communication pathways and network subnetting configurations, familiarity and comprehension of common IT tools such as routers, switches, firewalls, and media converters, understanding of the different tools and techniques for managing BAS data across different layers of network architecture, and deep experience troubleshooting BAS communication and networking issues
• Experience procuring, implementing and managing scaled deployments of Niagara networks, including licensing and version control, compatibility requirements, vulnerability patching, resource monitoring and troubleshooting, architecture additions and expansion best practices
• Direct experience and skills using Tridium Niagara 4, including Niagara 4 certification, integration of a wide variety of 3rd party devices including proprietary and non-proprietary protocols, complex wire sheet programming skills, JSON development experience, comprehensive understanding and skills managing Niagara databases, including platform management and services, station configuration and management, and efficient station to station importing of schedules, histories, alarms, and point data, and graphics and visualization
• Ability to assist in troubleshooting BACnet communications and be able to explain root cause of failures/problems as well as the functionality of the full BACnet stack (Both IP and ms/tp) in support of both clients and other teams within the company

Desired Qualifications

• Design and implementation of end-to-end building automation hardware and software solutions, including controller selection and layout, sensor selection and layout, network architecture layout, detailed articulation of sequences of operations, BAS scope of work documentation
• Experience developing custom code within the Niagara developer framework
• Deep experience integrating legacy proprietary control systems into the Niagara framework

Location

Location Irvine, CA or Oakland, CA (Preferred); hybrid or remote (within the U.S.) candidate would be considered.

About Altura

Altura is proud to offer a generous total compensation package that includes base salary, bonus potential, and a comprehensive benefit package that includes health benefits (medical and dental plans), paid time off (vacation, sick and holiday), financial benefits (retirement plan with both match and annual company contribution, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and commuter benefits). Additional benefits for regular full-time employees include fitness reimbursement, healthcare and dependent care pre-tax spending plans, tuition reimbursement, back-up daycare, family support benefits, EAP, work life assistance and holiday contribution program. Base salaries will be determined by factors such as geographic location, education, skills, experience, and market considerations. For this role the annual base salary range is $150,000 -$170,000. We pride ourselves on our company’s unique entrepreneurial, high-energy culture and flat organizational structure which empowers employees to take action and achieve results for our clients.