# Controls Engineer, Commissioning Automation

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Embedded Engineering
**Salary:** $197k – $227k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** bms, plc, tridium, alc, siemens, trend data analysis, automated commissioning, controls programming
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Engineer automated commissioning for data center control systems by embedding test sequences into BMS/PLC logic, building test libraries, executing on live sites, analyzing failures, and driving upstream design fixes. Requires hands-on commissioning experience writing test procedures for building/data center controls.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Engineer automated commissioning from the controls side: test sequences written into the control layer itself.
- Build the functional test library: every device and sequence in the reference design with an automated test to match.
- Run automated commissioning on live sites: execute, analyze, and disposition failures with the field team.
- Feed results upstream: design and controls standards fixed where tests keep failing.

## Requirements
- Commissioned building or data center control systems hands-on.
- Written the test procedures, not just executed them.
- Program BMS or PLC platforms well enough to embed tests in logic.
- Analyze trend data to find the failure the point check missed.
- Turned repeat findings into upstream fixes.

## Nice-to-Haves
- L4 and L5 commissioning at scale.
- Tridium, ALC, Siemens, or PLC platforms.
- Analytics tooling.
- Electrical commissioning interface.

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