Staff Instrumentation & Controls Engineer – Deployment

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Lead the deployment, integration, and initiation of automation solutions for BMS/EPMS systems, ensuring smooth integration and monitoring with electrical and cooling infrastructures.

• Implement system standards, frameworks, and deployment patterns for controls, BMS, and EPMS rollouts across various projects and locations.

• Deploy and configure dashboards, HMIs, and operator workstations, ensuring site personnel have clear, functional visibility and control over intricate building and power systems.

• Supervise system integrators during standard deployments and point-to-point checks to guarantee strict adherence to design standards, acting as the controls escalation point to resolve complex automation integration, system inconsistencies, and network integration challenges.

• Collaborate with design engineers, contractors, and OEM partners in the field to configure, integrate, and troubleshoot networks using BACnet, Modbus, OPC-UA, and MQTT protocols.

• Perform system testing, simulation, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) to confirm functionality, sequencing, and data accuracy before operational handover.

• Ensure controls platforms accurately collect and transmit real-time and historical data, facilitating performance insight and analysis.

• Mentor and train other controls engineers on control system operations, troubleshooting best practices, and execution methodologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive professional experience in the physical deployment, integration, and initiation of PLC, SCADA, BMS, and EPMS platforms.

• Proven track record of successfully executing, deploying, and starting up automation systems in data centers or other high-availability environments.

• In-depth hands-on familiarity with configuring and troubleshooting control protocols such as BACnet, Modbus, OPC-UA, and MQTT, integrating various field devices into cohesive platforms.

• Strong practical knowledge of HVAC, electrical systems, PLC/DDC logic, and operations of industrial automation equipment.

• Demonstrated ability to convert engineering designs into physical installations, managing deployment timelines, and navigating a fast-paced construction environment.

• A history of resolving complex automation issues, swiftly diagnosing integration problems, and ensuring systems function precisely as intended.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation

• Restricted Stock Units

• Paid time off & paid holidays

• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance

• Employer contributions to HSA account

• Paid parental leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Professional development & tuition reimbursement

• Mental health & wellness support

• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)

• Cell phone stipend

• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

• Volunteer time off