Controls Engineer – Power Generation

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $177k - $285k / year

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📋 Description

• Design and integrate automation systems for on-site power generation serving large AI data center campuses • Own control architecture and functional requirements across generation packages, balance-of-plant systems, electrical protection, microgrid controls, and data center monitoring • Define control-system architecture, functional design specifications, sequences of operation, cause-and-effect matrices, alarm philosophy, and interface requirements • Integrate OEM controls, PLCs, DCS, SCADA, historian, microgrid controllers, protection systems, and data center BMS or EPMS platforms • Develop and review I/O lists, network architecture, control narratives, graphics, alarm limits, interlocks, permissives, and fail-safe behavior • Coordinate synchronization, load sharing, islanding, black start, load shedding, restoration, and generation-to-data-center operating modes • Evaluate cybersecurity, redundancy, time synchronization, communications protocols, data quality, and remote-support requirements • Lead or support software reviews, simulator testing, factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, commissioning, and tuning • Troubleshoot control-system and plant-performance issues and convert findings into corrective actions and reusable standards • Partner with electrical, mechanical, CSA, IT, security, operations, OEM, EPC, and data center controls teams • Work from concept through factory testing, site commissioning, performance validation, and operational improvement • Travel approximately 50%

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of controls, automation, or instrumentation engineering experience in power generation, industrial plants, utilities, or mission-critical infrastructure • Strong experience with PLC, DCS, SCADA, historian, industrial networking, and control-system integration • Knowledge of generation controls, synchronization, load sharing, protective interfaces, process control, and safety interlocks • Experience developing functional specifications, sequences, I/O, alarms, graphics, and factory or site test procedures • Ability to troubleshoot across software, instrumentation, electrical, mechanical, communications, and operating-process boundaries • Understanding of industrial cybersecurity, redundancy, failover, and change-control practices • Bachelor's degree in controls, electrical, mechanical, chemical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field • Experience with major turbine or reciprocating-engine control platforms and microgrid controllers • Experience with IEC 61850, Modbus, OPC UA, DNP3, EtherNet/IP, or comparable industrial protocols • Experience integrating generation controls with BMS, EPMS, DCIM, or utility systems • Professional Engineer license, functional-safety training, or industrial-cybersecurity certification are preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match • Paid parental leave: up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents • Paid medical and caregiver leave: up to 8 weeks • Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees • 13+ paid company holidays • Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year • Paid sick or safe time • Mental health and wellness support • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage • Annual learning and development stipend • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible • Relocation support for eligible employees • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may also be provided

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