Controls Engineer, Power Generation and Microgird

We are seeking a Controls Engineer to design, program, integrate and commission on-site power generation and microgrid control systems serving large AI data center campuses.

You will own control architecture and functional requirements across generation packages, balance-of-plant systems, electrical protection, microgrid controls, and data center monitoring.

Responsibilities:

• Design, program and commission plant power controllers (PPCs) and microgrid control systems for gas turbine and reciprocating engine power plants.
• Develop control sequences for grid-connected, islanded and transition modes.
• Coordinate active power, reactive power, voltage and frequency controls across generators, energy storage, MV UPS and other distributed energy resources.
• Define how the plant responds to generator trips, loss of utility power, large load changes, equipment failures and loss of communication.
• Work with OEMs to define the boundaries between turbine or engine controls, generator controls, the PPC, protection systems and data center controls.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, programming, integrating and commissioning industrial controls for power generation, industrial plants, utilities, or mission-critical infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience with PLC, DCS, SCADA, historian, industrial-networking, and control-system integration.
• Experience with plant power control, generator controls, synchronization, load sharing, islanding and load-shedding schemes.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with major turbine or reciprocating-engine control platforms and microgrid controllers.
• Experience with data center power systems and rapidly changing AI or GPU loads.
• Experience integrating gas generation with BESS, MV UPS and grid-forming or grid-following inverters.