# Staff Instrumentation & Controls Engineer, Deployment

**Company:** [Crusoe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/crusoe)
**Location:** Abilene, TX, Dallas, TX, Amarillo, TX
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $148k – $170k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Bms, Epms, Scada, Plc, Bacnet, Modbus, Opc-Ua, Mqtt, Hvac, Electrical Systems, Ignition, Rockwell
**Posted:** 2026-05-19

> Lead deployment, integration, and startup of BMS, EPMS, and SCADA systems for hyperscale AI data centers. Bridge engineering design with on-site execution while enforcing standards and troubleshooting protocols.

## Job Description

## System Deployment & Execution
- Lead the field deployment, integration, and startup of automation solutions for BMS/EPMS systems, ensuring seamless integration and monitoring with electrical and cooling infrastructure.

## Standardization & Implementation
- Enforce system standards, frameworks, and deployment patterns for controls, BMS, and EPMS rollouts across multiple projects and sites.

## SCADA & Graphics Configuration
- Deploy and configure dashboards, HMIs, and operator workstations, ensuring site personnel have clear, functional visibility and control over complex building and power systems.

## Startup Governance & Escalation Resolution
- Oversee system integrators during standard deployments and point-to-point checkouts to ensure strict compliance with design standards.
- Operate as the controls escalation point to troubleshoot complex automation integration, system inconsistencies, and network integration issues.

## Protocol Integration & Troubleshooting
- Collaborate with design engineers, contractors, and OEM partners in the field to configure, integrate, and troubleshoot networks utilizing BACnet, Modbus, OPC-UA, and MQTT protocols.

## Site Validation & Handover
- Conduct system testing, simulation, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) to validate functionality, sequencing, and data accuracy prior to operational handover.

## System Optimization & Turnover
- Ensure controls platforms correctly collect and push real-time and historical data, enabling performance insight and analysis.

## Site Support & Training
- Mentor and train other controls engineers on control system operation, troubleshooting best practices, and execution methodology.

## What You’ll Bring
- Extensive professional experience in the physical deployment, integration, and startup of PLC, SCADA, BMS, and EPMS platforms.
- Proven ability to successfully execute, deploy, and startup automation systems in data center or other high-availability environments.
- Deep hands-on familiarity with configuring and troubleshooting control protocols such as BACnet, Modbus, OPC-UA, and MQTT.
- Strong practical knowledge of HVAC, electrical systems, PLC/DDC logic, and industrial automation equipment operations.
- Demonstrated ability to translate engineering designs into physical installations and drive deployment timelines.
- A track record of solving complex automation challenges and diagnosing integration issues.

## Bonus Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a relevant engineering or technical field.
- Relevant professional certifications in specific PLC or SCADA platforms (Ignition and Rockwell preferred).
- Experience ensuring controls implementations comply with industrial cybersecurity best practices.
- Passion for leveraging automation to meet energy efficiency and sustainability goals.

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