Software-Defined Controls Engineer

Fluidstack

Austin, Northern (TX, KY)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking an experienced Industrial Controls Engineer to advance the virtualized PLC platform and software-defined infrastructure for frontier compute. You will port and validate control applications, build test harnesses, and define reference architecture for software-based controls.

Ideal candidates have PLC programming experience (IEC 61131), familiarity with virtualization, and a disciplined approach to deterministic runtime behavior, safety, and documentation of control

Qualifications

  • Experience programming industrial controls and PLC platforms.
  • Familiarity with IEC 61131 languages and verification of control logic.
  • Experience with virtualization or software-based control runtimes.
  • Ability to document control narratives for engineers and operators.

Responsibilities

  • Engineer the virtualized PLC platform: software-defined infrastructure.
  • Port and validate control applications onto virtual runtimes with determinism and safety.
  • Build test harnesses that prove virtual controls against hardware behavior.
  • Define the reference architecture: networking, redundancy, and failover for controls as software.

Skills

Industrial controls programming
PLC platforms
IEC 61131 languages
Virtualization software runtimes
Testing control logic
Documentation
Codesys
RT-Linux

Tools

Codesys
RT-Linux

Job description

Fluidstack is seeking an experienced Industrial Controls Engineer to advance the virtualized PLC platform and software-defined infrastructure for frontier compute. You will port and validate control applications, build test harnesses, and define reference architecture for software-based controls.

Ideal candidates have PLC programming experience (IEC 61131), familiarity with virtualization, and a disciplined approach to deterministic runtime behavior, safety, and documentation of control

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