# Technical Lead, Facilities Software Automation

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Embedded Engineering
**Salary:** $269k – $317k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** controls, plc, bms, digital twin, simulation, safety-critical software
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Lead the architecture and implementation of facilities software automation for physical plant control, from telemetry to actuation with built-in safety. Own closed-loop control, simulation, rollout across sites, and set engineering standards while continuing to write critical code. Requires prior leadership of physical systems automation teams.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
- Lead facilities software automation: the systems that let software observe, decide, and act on physical plant.
- Own the architecture from telemetry through decision to actuation, with safety and authorization designed in.
- Set the engineering standards for a team shipping against live infrastructure.
- Carry the hardest problems: closed-loop control paths, simulation, and rollout strategy across the fleet.

## Requirements
- Led teams building software that controls or automates physical systems.
- Designed act-on-plant paths with interlocks, authorization, and audit.
- Taken automation from one site to many with a real rollout model.
- Architecture decisions balance speed with the blast radius of being wrong.
- Still write the critical code.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Controls background (PLC, BMS).
- Digital twin and simulation.
- Energy systems.
- Safety-critical software practices.

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