Senior AI Controls Solutions Engineer – Electrical Systems

🕒 May 5

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $119k - $192.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Phaidra

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51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

⚡ Energy

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • Energy • SaaS

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

• You will work closely with the Technical Program Managers (TPMs) and Data Scientists (DSs), as the technical experts for Phaidra's customers. Your role is to use Phaidra's platform and tools to put AI into production. • As the subject matter expert, (SME), you will use Phaidra’s products and your knowledge of the customers' needs to create a model of the facility for ingestion by our product lineup. This will require working closely with our Data Science team. You’ll create a representation of the facility in Mort system builder, map tag data, review our Insights logic for facility specific requirements, and assist in analyzing and triaging these systems in the support phase. • You will work with the product team to identify and define product requirements based upon each customer’s specification and needs. You will work closely with other AI Controls Solutions Engineers and the Product team to ensure our automated tools enable Phaidra to scale across thousands of customers. • This role can include 25% travel.

🎯 Requirements

• 10-15 years of work experience as a controls engineer, programmer, or equivalent. • Possesses expertise in Power Distribution Systems in Data Centers and general knowledge the systems they power. • Has the ability to operate as an Solutions Engineer independently. • Understanding of applied physics for electrical systems. • Experience designing, programming, or strong working knowledge of industrial and commercial control systems, on-premises, and cloud protocols. • Understanding the applications and control strategies of power distribution systems and electrical power management systems. • Ability to troubleshoot, triage, and analyze issues with control systems and equipment. • Strong proficiency in working with data center operations teams and contributing to solving field operations related problems and challenges. • Experience programming control systems with PLC, ladder logic, text, or block programming languages. • Ability to analyze the performance and viability of your engineered solutions. • Passion for problem solving and using scalable solutions to solve repeat problems. • Ability to translate a combination of customer-stated and customer-implied needs into coherent needs documentation for use by the software development team. • Good educational background in one or more related disciplines pertinent to your area of expertise. Example disciplines include Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Control Theory, Applied Mathematics and other various engineering and applied science fields. • Ability to read and write Python scripts (in collaboration with the software engineering team) to implement Insights and scrappy tooling. • Ability to work independently to resolve onboarding or support tickets by coordinating with the right people or providing direct solutions. You will possesses deep knowledge of Phaidra’s pipelines and effectively identify and addresses issues and manage risks actively. • Exhibits excellent communication skills and has the ability to explain complex domain specific concepts to non-domain experts and also explain complex AI and ML specific concepts to non-AI/ML specific customers. • Ability to own and manage large sections of documentation, fostering a culture of high standards in documentation and communication. • Ability to understand customers well and drive a culture of pragmatic urgency and customer satisfaction. • Ability to lead the deployment and support of multiple Solutions, perhaps in parallel. • Ability to own project delivery within team, work as an independent contributor, and rally other individuals on the team to accomplish substantial tasks that cannot be completed independently. • Ability to mentor peers, delegate within team, handle project stakeholders, build relationships with other departments within Phaidra, and collaborate with their manager on the roadmap, backlog, and work planning. • Shares our company values: Collaboration, Transparency, Operational Excellence, Ownership, & Empath.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fast-paced, team-oriented environment where your work directly shapes the company’s direction. • We are a 100% remote company. • Competitive compensation & meaningful equity. • Outsized responsibilities & professional development. • Training is foundational; 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.