Staff Controls Operator

FluidStack
Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 310,000 - 378,000 annuallyFunction: Facilities, Workplace & Physical OperationsSkills: ["Extreme ownership","First principles thinking","Diagnosing faults","Tuning setpoints","Working under pressure"]

Operate building management and controls systems (BMS, SCADA, EPMS) that keep gigawatt-scale data centers cooling and powered in real time. Own real-time load and thermal control across sites as they come online in phases, writing operating procedures, alarm response runbooks, and control sequences. Diagnose and resolve controls faults on the live floor, and tune sequences and setpoints to meet PUE and reliability targets.

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Staff Controls Operator

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Job Summary

Operate building management and controls systems (BMS, SCADA, EPMS) that keep gigawatt-scale data centers cooling and powered in real time. Own real-time load and thermal control across sites as they come online in phases, writing operating procedures, alarm response runbooks, and control sequences. Diagnose and resolve controls faults on the live floor, and tune sequences and setpoints to meet PUE and reliability targets.
Location: Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Facilities, Workplace & Physical Operations
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Run building management and controls systems (BMS, SCADA, EPMS) to keep gigawatt-scale data centers cooling and powered in real time.
  • •Own real-time load and thermal control across sites coming online in pieces to keep live halls running flawlessly during construction.
  • •Write operating procedures, alarm response runbooks, and control sequences that become the standard for every site.
  • •Diagnose and resolve controls faults on the floor, from chiller sequence issues to breaker mis-operations, before they affect a training run.
  • •Tune control sequences and setpoints to hold PUE and reliability targets as load ramps and hardware generations change.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 310,000 - 378,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Operate the controls for live mission-critical facilities, including data centers, industrial facilities, or power systems, through faults and ramp conditions.
  • •Know BMS, SCADA, and EPMS platforms deeply enough to diagnose bad sequences or misconfigured points beyond reading alarms.
  • •Write operating procedures and alarm response runbooks that other operators actually run.
  • •Resolve real controls faults under pressure on a live floor with load on the line.
  • •Tune control sequences and setpoints, and explain tradeoffs between reliability, efficiency, and cost.
Experience:Data center operationsIndustrialPower
Skills:Extreme ownershipFirst principles thinkingDiagnosing faultsTuning setpointsWorking under pressure
Tech Stack:BMSSCADAEPMSPUELiquid coolingElectrical power monitoring systemsBehind-the-meter generation

Company Brief

FluidStack
Builds and deploys large-scale GPU cloud infrastructure for AI labs, enterprises and governments, providing high-performance AI training and inference capacity and rapid data-center deployment services.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2017
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