# Lead / Principal Controls Engineer, Design Development

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Controls Engineering, Division 25, Sequences Of Operations, Bms, Scada, Bacnet, Modbus, Csi Masterformat, Data Center Mep, Chiller Plants, Switchgear
**Posted:** 2026-07-06

> Lead the controls design team for modular data centers, owning template designs, SOOs, points lists, BOMs, Division 25 specs, and technical standards. Set direction, drive cross-functional decisions, grow the team, and ensure repeatable high-quality designs for 50GW+ of AI compute infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
Lead the controls design development team, owning the template designs, SOOs, points lists, BOMs, and Division 25 specifications that every modular data center build inherits.
Set the technical direction for controls design, deciding the standards, platforms, and reference architectures the whole fleet builds from.
Drive design decisions to resolution across mechanical, electrical, commissioning, and construction, so controls design is never the thing holding up a site's schedule.
Grow the team, hiring controls engineers and raising the bar on the design work they produce.
Own the quality and repeatability of every design package that leaves the team, so the hundredth site is designed faster and cleaner than the first.

## What We're Looking For
- Led a controls or design engineering team, owning both the technical output and the people producing it.
- Set controls design standards, reference architectures, or specifications that others built from across multiple projects.
- Authored or owned Division 25 integrated automation specifications.
- Written sequences of operations and seen them through to working code.
- Make design decisions fast and defend them across mechanical, electrical, and construction stakeholders.
- Hired controls engineers and grown people from competent to excellent.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Modular or productized data center delivery.
- Data center mechanical and electrical systems (chiller plants, CRAH/CRAC, fan wall units, switchgear).
- BMS and SCADA platforms over BACnet and Modbus.
- CSI MasterFormat and Division 25 authorship.
- Building a controls design function up from a small team.

## Compensation
$250,000 - $300,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. Offers equity in the form of stock options.

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