Plant Controls Lead (EMS/PPC)
Core
Lead the control stack for fully off-grid AI data center campuses, managing site energy management, plant controllers, and dispatch logic across PV, BESS, and gas to enable gigawatt-scale compute deployment.
Role type
Senior IC Plant Controls Lead (Energy Management Systems / Power Plant Control)
Builds
Standardized control architectures and sequences of operation for islanded grid power blocks feeding data centers.
Domain
Renewable energy, power systems engineering, and AI infrastructure. (via careerplan.io/jobs/ac945197-00f5-421b-9515-07799cbbf447-plant-controls-lead-emsppc-at-fluidstack)
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Utility-scale hybrid plant control (PV/BESS/thermal), sequence of operation design, control software productization, third-party controller integration, interface design between control systems, field tuning of frequency/voltage response.
Preferred skills
Islanded/weak-grid operation, real-time simulation (RTDS, OPAL-RT), commercial plant controllers (FlexGen, Tesla, Schneider), industrial protocols (DNP3, IEC 61850), control languages (Go, Rust, C++, IEC 61131-3).
Responsibilities
Own the control stack for off-grid campuses including EMS and plant controllers; translate control philosophy into executable sequences of operation; manage the control contract between power plants and data centers; decide on component sourcing vs. in-house development; build controls test capability and hardware-in-the-loop benches; lead field commissioning and tuning; hire controls software and test engineers.
