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FluidstackFluidstackAustin, TX

Controls Engineer, Virtualized PLCs

Engineer virtualized PLC platform for data center controls, porting industrial control logic to software-defined infrastructure while preserving determinism, safety, and real-time performance. Requires professional PLC programming experience and knowledge of virtualization for controls.

197k – 227k/yr
On-site5+ YOEEmbedded Engineering

About the role

Role Scope

  • Engineer the virtualized PLC platform: control logic moving from proprietary boxes to software-defined infrastructure.
  • Port and validate control applications onto virtual runtimes without giving up determinism or safety.
  • Build the test harnesses that prove virtual controls against hardware behavior before a site sees them.
  • Define the reference architecture: networking, redundancy, and failover for controls as software.

Requirements

  • Programmed industrial controls professionally: PLC platforms and IEC 61131 languages.
  • Worked with virtualization or software-based control runtimes.
  • Test control logic like lives depend on it, because they can.
  • Understand determinism, scan times, and what breaks when controls become software.
  • Document control narratives engineers and operators both use.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Codesys or software PLCs.
  • Hypervisors and real-time Linux.
  • BMS and EPMS applications.
  • Functional safety.

Skills

plciec 61131virtualizationcodesyshypervisorsreal-time linuxbmsepmsfunctional safety
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