Fluidstack
Plant Controls Lead (EMS/PPC)
Austin, TX. Posted a month ago
The role
The Plant Controls Lead will own the control stack for fully off-grid campuses. This includes the site energy management system, plant controllers, and dispatch logic across PV, BESS, and gas. You will write sequences of operation, lead field commissioning, and build a team of controls software and test engineers.
What you will do
- Own the control stack for fully off-grid campuses
- Write sequences of operation for all operating modes and transitions
- Build the plant model library and bench for testing
- Hold the generation side of the control contract
- Decide which components to buy and which to build
- Lead commissioning and tuning in the field
- Hire the controls software and test engineers
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in plant controls and energy management systems for utility-scale hybrid plants
- Experience owning the plant controller or EMS on a utility-scale hybrid plant combining at least two of PV, BESS and thermal generation
- Experience writing sequences of operation for source transitions, blackstart or islanding
- Experience shipping control software as a product, version-controlled, tested and released to running plants
- Experience bringing a third-party controller or component into a live plant and replacing it with own code without an outage
- Experience designing an interface between two control systems owned by different parties
- Experience tuning a plant in the field, frequency and voltage response, ramp rates and load steps
- Ability to write clearly for OEM controls engineers, commissioning agents, and CEOs
- Comfortable with regular travel of 25% or more
Nice to have
- Islanded or weak-grid operation (island utilities, mining and remote microgrids, offshore)
- Real-time simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing
- Industrial control protocols and OT security (DNP3, IEC 61850, IEC 62443)
About the company
Fluidstack designs, builds, and operates data centers to deliver compute infrastructure for AI. They focus on acquiring power and building civilization-scale infrastructure with speed and scale.