AI Controls Solutions Engineer – HVAC Systems

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $95.7k - $143.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Phaidra

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51 - 200 employees

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

Manufacturing • Logistics • Construction

Phaidra is a company providing artificial intelligence controls to optimize mission-critical facilities such as data centers and industrial plants. Their closed-loop AI control service enhances plant stability, energy efficiency, and sustainability by reducing downtime, increasing productivity, and lowering CO2 emissions. Unlike traditional control systems, Phaidra's AI-driven controls continuously learn and improve over time without the need for new hardware. The system provides real-time optimization and integrates with existing control systems, enhancing safety and operational stability while providing full transparency of performance data. Phaidra uses cutting-edge deep reinforcement learning techniques to deliver exceptional results in some of the world's toughest challenges, including significant energy savings in Google's data centers.

📋 Description

• Operationalize and scale Phaidra’s AI-powered control solutions for enterprise data center customers • Create facility models for ingestion by Phaidra’s products in collaboration with Data Science • Understand facilities and configure products according to facility and customer requirements • Commission, tune, analyze, and triage deployed control systems • Identify and define product requirements based on customer specifications and needs • Translate customer-stated and customer-implied needs into documentation for software development • Lead deployment and ongoing support of multiple solutions, potentially in parallel • Resolve onboarding and support tickets by coordinating with stakeholders or providing direct solutions • Monitor solution performance, troubleshoot control systems and equipment, analyze issues, and manage risk • Act as an internal and customer-facing subject matter expert • Deliver platinum customer support, advise research projects, and support sales and marketing efforts • Participate in customer onboarding, new system creation, troubleshooting, site visits, code repository contributions, and business process refinement

🎯 Requirements

• Located in the USA or Canada • 5–10 years of work experience as a controls engineer, programmer, or equivalent • Expertise in HVAC and data center cooling control methodologies and strategies • Knowledge of chiller plant fundamentals, configurations, and sequence of operations • Understanding of applied thermodynamics for cooling systems, refrigeration systems, and hydronics • Experience in controls design engineering or strong working knowledge of industrial and commercial control systems and protocols such as BACnet and Modbus • Understanding of air-side chilled-water and direct-expansion cooling systems and control strategies • Proficiency working with data center operations teams and solving field-operations problems • Experience programming control systems with PLC, ladder logic, text, or block programming languages • Good educational background in a related discipline such as Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Control Theory, Applied Mathematics, engineering, or applied sciences • Ability to read and write Python scripts in collaboration with software engineering • Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex domain-specific and AI/ML concepts to non-experts • Ability to own and manage documentation • Ability to understand customers and drive customer satisfaction • Ability to support peers and conduct pairing sessions • Ability to independently use AI tools to improve workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and support onboarding and troubleshooting • Alignment with Collaboration, Transparency, Operational Excellence, Ownership, and Empathy • Ability to travel up to 25% • Legally authorized to work in the specified location; no employment sponsorship provided • Candidates advancing beyond initial screening must sign an NDA • Employment offers contingent on employment authorization verification and applicable background checks

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote company • Competitive compensation & meaningful equity • Outsized responsibilities & professional development • Functional, customer immersion, and development training • Medical, dental, and vision insurance (exact benefits vary by region) • Unlimited paid time off, with a required minimum of 20 days per year • Paid parental leave (exact benefits vary by region) • Flexible stipends to support your workspace, well-being, and continued professional development • Company MacBook • Virtual team-building activities and social events • Weekly all-hands meetings • Asynchronous communication supporting focus and flexibility across time zones