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Principal Controls Operations Lead — Data Center Operations

Job Overview

Location

U.S. Remote

Job Type

Full-time

Category

Engineering

Date Posted

July 9, 2026

Full Job Description

📋 Description

  • Serve as the most senior technical authority for BMS, EPMS, PLC, and equipment-level controls across the fleet.
  • Own every material BMS change across the fleet and serve as final technical approver for high-consequence changes. Standardize where it matters, enforce change control everywhere it matters.
  • Lead technical and operational site audits on sequences, alarming, trending, integration health, and cybersecurity, and own the remediation roadmap through closure.
  • Personally sign off on controls operational readiness and the handover from commissioning to steady-state operations for every new site.
  • Feed operational learnings back into design and manufacturing as we shift to repeatable, productized builds, including standing up a full BMS in two days.
  • Author and approve high-risk MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs, and lead root cause analysis on significant controls events through to closure.
  • Travel 50 to 75% across the fleet. The work is in the field, not at a desk.
  • You've spent a career programming, commissioning, and operating controls on complex central plants and critical environments. You can walk into any site and own the front-end within a day.
  • You have platform-agnostic command of modern BMS/BAS (Ignition, Niagara, Metasys, EcoStruxure) earned in the field, plus PLC programming on at least one major platform.
  • You're fluent across BACnet, Modbus, SNMP, and the other major controls protocols, and you know the mechanical, electrical, and fire/life safety systems they coordinate.
  • You've authored and executed high-risk controls MOPs in live critical environments, and led root cause analysis on significant events through to closure.
  • You hold integrators, OEMs, and vendors to a programming and documentation standard without burning the relationship.
  • You teach. Operational health assessments, RCAs, sequences, and design feedback are second nature, and you build the people around you up.
  • Bonus: Hyperscale or large colocation at hundreds of MW+. EPMS platforms and DCIM. Historians and scripting in Python or SQL. OT network segmentation and cybersecurity.

🎯 Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in controls programming, commissioning, and operation on complex central plants and critical environments.
  • Platform-agnostic command of modern BMS/BAS (Ignition, Niagara, Metasys, EcoStruxure) earned in the field, plus PLC programming on at least one major platform.
  • Fluency across BACnet, Modbus, SNMP, and the other major controls protocols.
  • Experience with high-risk controls MOPs in live critical environments.
  • Strong leadership and teaching skills.

🏖️ Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
  • Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

Skills & Technologies

Python
Senior
Remote
$220k-260k

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About FluidStack Inc.

FluidStack Inc. operates a distributed cloud platform that aggregates under-utilized GPUs in data centers and individual machines worldwide, renting them on-demand to AI researchers, startups, and enterprises for training and inference workloads. The company automates deployment, security, and billing, offering prices up to 80% below traditional hyperscalers while providing instant access to high-end NVIDIA A100, H100, and consumer GPUs through a single API and web console. Headquartered in London, FluidStack targets machine-learning engineers who need scalable, low-cost compute without long-term commitments, claiming thousands of active nodes and customers including Fortune 500 enterprises and leading research labs.

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