Software-Defined Controls Engineer

Fluidstack; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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