Controls Engineer – Design Development

FluidStack

Controls Engineer designing template controls for modular data centers at Fluidstack. Collaborating across teams to ensure integration and functionality for advanced AI infrastructure builds.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create template controls designs for our fully modular data center builds, so one validated design set deploys across every site instead of being redrawn project by project.
Write sequences of operations that define how the mechanical and electrical systems run, and hand them to the programming team as the source of truth for the code.
Build the standard points lists and bills of materials that lock the instrumentation, IO, and controls hardware every modular build draws from.
Own the Division 25 integrated automation specification end to end, keeping it current as equipment, vendors, and site designs change.
Coordinate the controls design across the mechanical, electrical, and commissioning teams so it matches the equipment it will run and the tests it has to pass.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You’ve produced controls design packages, drawings, points lists, or specifications, that a contractor or programmer built from without coming back with a list of questions.
You’ve written sequences of operations for mechanical or electrical systems and seen them implemented in real controllers, so you know where a vague SOO breaks down in code.
You’ve authored or owned a Division 25 integrated automation specification, or an equivalent controls spec, and kept it accurate across multiple projects.
You’ve built standard points lists and BOMs, and you know how a wrong point count or a mis-specified device shows up as a change order months later.
You design for repeatability, turning one-off engineering into templates that get reused rather than redrawing every project from scratch.
You catch the coordination gaps between mechanical, electrical, and controls scopes before they reach the field.
Bonus: Data center mechanical and electrical systems (chiller plants, CRAH/CRAC, fan wall units, switchgear). Modular or productized build delivery. BMS and SCADA platforms over BACnet and Modbus. CSI MasterFormat and Division 25 spec writing. Points list and IO schedule tooling.

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Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

Controls DesignMechanical Systems DesignElectrical Systems DesignSpecification WritingTemplate Engineering

Soft Skills

CoordinationProblem-Solving