# Controls Engineer, Power Generation and Microgird

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $257K - $327K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

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.

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## Skills

### Required
- PLC
- DCS
- SCADA
- industrial-networking
- control-system integration
- power generation
- microgrid control systems

### Nice to have
- major turbine or reciprocating-engine control platforms
- microgrid controllers
- data center power systems
- AI or GPU loads
- gas generation with BESS, MV UPS and grid-forming or grid-following inverters

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