Senior Staff Controls Engineer, Platform

What You’ll Be Working On

• Strategic Technical Leadership: Serve as a lead architect and collaborative driver for the enterprise scaling plan and compute deployment strategy for all facility control systems and servers.
• Enterprise Collaboration: Work directly with technical peers and enterprise partners to architect and develop our global controls strategy, acting as a defining technical authority.
• Repository Governance: Maintain and govern our git repositories, ensuring the integrity and standardization of enterprise-level templates for Ignition UDT primitives and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
• Documentation & Scaling: Develop and own a comprehensive documentation strategy to enable ongoing maintenance, seamless operations, and rapid enterprise scaling.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Coordinate extensively with the broader controls team to ensure strict compliance and standardization with ongoing greenfield projects and campus build-outs.
• Telemetry Evolution: Lead the evolution of our telemetry architecture, establishing robust development and standardization strategies for critical facility data.
• Technical Mentorship: Mentor and elevate the technical capabilities of surrounding engineers and controls team members on best practices for software, data architecture, and enterprise standards.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• At least 10+ years of technically applicable, hands-on professional experience in complex engineering or critical infrastructure environments.
• Recognized Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least two of the following three domains: Inductive Automation Ignition infrastructure, DevOps practices, or containerization / orchestration technologies.
• Demonstrated track record of rapidly mastering emerging enterprise tech stacks, with the expectation to achieve SME status across all three core domains (Ignition, DevOps, and containerization).
• Direct professional experience in data centers (highly preferred) or similar mission-critical environments such as Oil & Gas, semiconductor manufacturing, or energy generation.
• Proven ability to translate business goals into an actionable enterprise scaling plan and robust technical architecture.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Bonus Points

• Expertise with Postgres, MSSQL, or other relational databases in high-availability environments.
• Proficiency with industry-standard control platforms such as Rockwell, Siemens, or Codesys.
• Experience with low voltage electrical systems, controls I/O, and industrial networking design and/or configuration w/ systems such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
• Volunteer time off
• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
• Daily meals allowance