Staff Controls Operator — Data Center Operations

Fluidstack; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack, based in New York, is building civilization-scale data centers and seeks an engineer to operate live BMS/SCADA/EPMS systems, keeping halls running during construction and ramping.

You will own real-time load, write procedures, diagnose faults, and tune sequences to balance reliability, efficiency, and cost. This role requires autonomous, high-ownership work at gigawatt scale.

Qualifications

• Operate live mission-critical data center facilities.
• Diagnose sequence faults and optimize controls.
• Write operating procedures and alarm runbooks.
• Explain reliability, efficiency, and cost tradeoffs.
• Catch drifting sensors before outages.

Responsibilities

• Run building management and controls systems in real time.
• Own real-time load and thermal control across new sites.
• Write standard operating procedures and alarm sequences.
• Diagnose and resolve floor faults during ramping.
• Tune control sequences to meet PUE targets.

Skills

BMS

SCADA

EPMS

Diagnostics

Runbooks

Procedures

Job description

About Fluidstack

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.

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

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.

The Data Center Operations Team

Examples of 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’ve 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’ve written operating procedures and alarm response runbooks that other operators actually run.

• You’ve 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.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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.