Controls Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Houston

Employment Type: FullTime

What you'll do

You'll support controls for data center cooling products: CDUs, FWUs, chillers, and chiller plant managers. Job entails product development and improvement, field support, factory testing, and troubleshooting. You'll also update as-built drawings and make design changes when needed.

Where you'll work

We are an in-office culture — velocity matters when you're building physical infrastructure, and the best decisions happen in the room. This role is ideally based in our San Francisco, Long Beach, or Houston offices, with full-time onsite expectations outside of bi-weekly WFH Fridays.

That said, we will make exceptions for truly exceptional talent if you live outside one of our hubs. If you're the right person for this role, we'll have a conversation about what works.

Responsibilities

Product Support

• Review Schematics, Layouts, BOM and verify against control narratives and basis of design.

• Support PLC logic on CDUs, FWUs, chillers, and chiller plant managers.

• Make logic changes and tune PID loops as needed.

• Support Ignition BMS screens, tags, and alarms.

• Work with OEMs on product issues and improvements.

• Support factory acceptance testing (FAT) and unit validation before shipment.

Field Support

• Support startup and commissioning on site.

• Troubleshoot PLCs, VFDs, instruments, and networks.

• Do loop checks and I/O checkouts.

• Resolve comms issues (EtherNet/IP, Modbus, OPC-UA).

• Capture field changes and redlines.

Design (as needed)

• Turn field redlines into as-built drawings.

• Update schematics, wiring diagrams, and P&IDs for design changes.

• Update I/O lists and control narratives to match.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of controls experience

• Bachelor's in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

• Design experience with control schematics and P&IDs

• AutoCAD Electrical or EPLAN

• Rockwell Studio 5000 programming

• PID tuning experience

• Strong field troubleshooting skills

• Able to travel up to 50%

Bonus points

• Data center experience.

• OEM or product-based controls experience.

• Hands-on work with CDUs, FWUs, or chillers.

• Ignition or BMS experience.