Senior Data-Center Controls Engineer for AI Cloud

Lambda; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 204,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Wellness stipend

Commuter stipend

401k with match

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking a Senior Controls Engineer to own and define control architectures for large-scale AI data centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will design sequences of operation, specify sensors and PLCs, and coordinate across mechanical, electrical, and network teams to ensure reliable, high-performance cooling systems.

You will review vendor designs and support field testing, commissioning, and live facility bring-up, while applying commissioning lessons

Qualifications

• Experience designing or commissioning mechanical controls for data centers or mission-critical facilities.
• Understand chilled-water, condenser-water, heat-rejection, air-cooling and liquid-cooling systems.
• Translate operational requirements into clear, testable control behavior.

Responsibilities

• Own controls standards and reference architectures for mechanical systems supporting large-scale AI data centers.
• Develop control narratives, sequences of operation, points lists, alarm matrices, cause-and-effect diagrams, and controller requirements.
• Define automation for central cooling plants, heat-rejection systems, pumps, heat exchangers, CRAHs, CDUs, liquid-cooling loops, valves, and associated equipment.
• Design system behavior for startup, shutdown, maintenance, component failure, utility loss, and recovery.
• Establish requirements for sensors, actuators, meters, control panels, PLCs, DDC controllers, gateways, and operator interfaces.
• Define BMS integration, mechanical telemetry, trending, alarming, data retention, and interfaces with other operational systems.
• Review partner designs, vendor submittals, control drawings, network architectures, and equipment packages for compliance with Lambda standards.
• Coordinate controls requirements across mechanical, electrical, network, hardware, construction, commissioning, and operations teams.
• Support factory testing, site acceptance testing, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and cooling-system bring-up.
• Troubleshoot control-loop instability, sensor errors, communication failures, nuisance alarms, and sequence deficiencies.
• Incorporate commissioning results and operating lessons into future designs and control standards.
• Travel to project sites, manufacturers, and partner facilities as needed.

Skills

Mechanical controls design

Data center experience

Controls commissioning

System engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, controls, or systems engineering

Tools

Siemens

Schneider Electric

Johnson Controls

Honeywell

Rockwell

Tridium

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking a Senior Controls Engineer to own and define control architectures for large-scale AI data centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will design sequences of operation, specify sensors and PLCs, and coordinate across mechanical, electrical, and network teams to ensure reliable, high-performance cooling systems.

You will review vendor designs and support field testing, commissioning, and live facility bring-up, while applying commissioning lessons