Principal Data Centre Controls Engineer

About the job

Posted 6 days ago

Competitive USD / Year

Are you looking to join the team building the backbone of AI?

CrimsonXT has partnered with an AI Cloud Platform company, which, due to growth, is looking to hire a variety of positions across the data centre space. We are seeking a Principal Data Centre Controls Engineer to join this team, ideally based on the West Coast or the Central time zone.

Role responsibilities:

If successful, you will architect and program the brain of the company’s data centres, maximising uptime and surfacing real-time insights for tens of thousands of GPUs. Your focus will be:

• Manage all aspects of controls and monitoring systems
• Create a strategy for data centre control system design and deployment
• Develop control and monitoring system design standards for data centres with PLC / SCADA / DDC systems
• Lead innovation for control systems
• Develop and maintain the basis of design, master specification and master drawings
• Facilitate developing project-specific drawings and documentation
• Design PLC/SCADA architectures integrating HVAC, electrical and security subsystems
• Develop point lists, control sequences and HMI dashboards
• Implement secure OPC UA/MQTT data buses and high-frequency time-series databases
• Automate alarm workflows, predictive-maintenance analytics and KPI visualisations
• Collaborate with Software and SRE teams
• Produce control bill-of-materials, sequence-of-operations and commissioning scripts
• Interface with Mechanical, Electrical and Construction teams
• Willing and able to travel domestically and internationally to support projects (20% travel is expected for this role)

What we are looking for:

We are looking for someone with a B.S/B.E./B. A degree in an electrical or mechanical engineering discipline and at least 10 years of experience in BMS/EPMS design for high-availability data centres or semiconductor fabs. You should also have:

• Deep knowledge of BACnet, Modbus, SNMP, IEC 61850 and Niagara/Tridium
• Be proficient in Rockwell, Siemens or Schneider PLC ecosystems and Python/Golang for glue logic
• Have experience hardening OT networks to ISO 27001 / NIST CSF.

What’s in it for you?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a small, highly motivated team providing world-class supercomputing experience to its customers. You will be offered a competitive total compensation package (salary + equity), retirement or pension plan, health, dental, and vision insurance and a generous PTO policy.

Sound interesting? Get in touch to find out more information regarding this opportunity.