Controls Engineer – Power Generation
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Controls Engineer designing and commissioning power-generation automation for OpenAI’s AI data center infrastructure. Integrating PLC, SCADA, microgrid, protection, and data center control systems.
Responsibilities:
- Design and integrate automation systems for on-site power generation serving large AI data center campuses
- Own control architecture and functional requirements across generation packages, balance-of-plant systems, electrical protection, microgrid controls, and data center monitoring
- Define control-system architecture, functional design specifications, sequences of operation, cause-and-effect matrices, alarm philosophy, and interface requirements
- Integrate OEM controls, PLCs, DCS, SCADA, historian, microgrid controllers, protection systems, and data center BMS or EPMS platforms
- Develop and review I/O lists, network architecture, control narratives, graphics, alarm limits, interlocks, permissives, and fail-safe behavior
- Coordinate synchronization, load sharing, islanding, black start, load shedding, restoration, and generation-to-data-center operating modes
- Evaluate cybersecurity, redundancy, time synchronization, communications protocols, data quality, and remote-support requirements
- Lead or support software reviews, simulator testing, factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, commissioning, and tuning
- Troubleshoot control-system and plant-performance issues and convert findings into corrective actions and reusable standards
- Partner with electrical, mechanical, CSA, IT, security, operations, OEM, EPC, and data center controls teams
- Work from concept through factory testing, site commissioning, performance validation, and operational improvement
- Travel approximately 50%
Requirements:
- 8+ years of controls, automation, or instrumentation engineering experience in power generation, industrial plants, utilities, or mission-critical infrastructure
- Strong experience with PLC, DCS, SCADA, historian, industrial networking, and control-system integration
- Knowledge of generation controls, synchronization, load sharing, protective interfaces, process control, and safety interlocks
- Experience developing functional specifications, sequences, I/O, alarms, graphics, and factory or site test procedures
- Ability to troubleshoot across software, instrumentation, electrical, mechanical, communications, and operating-process boundaries
- Understanding of industrial cybersecurity, redundancy, failover, and change-control practices
- Bachelor's degree in controls, electrical, mechanical, chemical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field
- Experience with major turbine or reciprocating-engine control platforms and microgrid controllers
- Experience with IEC 61850, Modbus, OPC UA, DNP3, EtherNet/IP, or comparable industrial protocols
- Experience integrating generation controls with BMS, EPMS, DCIM, or utility systems
- Professional Engineer license, functional-safety training, or industrial-cybersecurity certification are preferred
Benefits:
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave: up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave: up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays
- Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may also be provided
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