Staff Controls Operator

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI and operates data centers and frontier compute infrastructure. We seek operators who can keep live facilities running through faults and ramps while scaling with new sites.

You will manage live control systems, diagnose faults, and write robust operating procedures. This role demands high ownership, fast iteration, and a focus on reliability and efficiency across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Experience operating live mission-critical facilities, data centers, industrial, or power environments.
• Ability to diagnose bad sequences or misconfigured points in BMS/SCADA/EPMS.
• Experience writing operating procedures and alarm response runbooks that are used by others.

Responsibilities

• Run building management and controls systems (BMS, SCADA, EPMS) for gigawatt-scale data centers.
• Own real-time load and thermal control across sites under development.
• Write operating procedures, alarm response runbooks, and standard control sequences.
• Diagnose and resolve controls faults on the floor before they impact operations.
• Tune control sequences/setpoints to balance reliability, efficiency, and cost.

Skills

BMS

SCADA

EPMS

Job description

Overview

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it. We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization‑scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

Data Center Operations Team

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

Key Problems the Team is Working On

• Operate at the scale of a nation, not a building. The fleet you run will draw more power than some countries, on the way to tens of gigawatts.
• Fly the plane while it's being built. Sites come online in pieces, and you keep the live ones running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
• Write the playbook, don't inherit it. No prior operations org has run at this speed and scale, so the standards you set become the standard.

Role Scope

• Run the building management and controls systems (BMS, SCADA, EPMS) that keep live gigawatt‑scale data centers cooling and powered in real time.
• Own real‑time load and thermal control across sites coming online in pieces, keeping the live halls running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
• Write the operating procedures, alarm response runbooks, and control sequences that become the standard for every site that follows.
• Diagnose and resolve controls faults on the floor, from a misbehaving chiller sequence to a breaker mis‑operation, before they touch a training run.
• Tune control sequences and setpoints to hold PUE and reliability targets as load ramps and hardware generations change.

What We're Looking For

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
• You have operated the controls for live mission‑critical facilities, data center, industrial, or power, and kept them running through faults, ramps, and construction next door.
• You know BMS, SCADA, and EPMS platforms deep enough to diagnose a bad sequence or a misconfigured point, not just read the alarm.
• You have written operating procedures and alarm response runbooks that other operators actually run.
• You have resolved a real controls fault under pressure, on a live floor, with load on the line.
• You tune control sequences and setpoints and can explain the tradeoff between reliability, efficiency, and cost.
• You catch the drifting sensor or the wrong setpoint before it becomes an outage.
• Bonus: Hyperscale or colocation data center operations. Liquid cooling controls. Electrical power monitoring systems. Behind‑the‑meter generation. Building the controls standards for a new fleet.

Compensation

Compensation Range: $220K - $260K

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.