# Building Engineer

**Company**: Arc Institute
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,000 to $132,000
**Category**: Facilities & Maintenance

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## Description

Arc Institute is seeking a hands-on Facilities Building Engineer to own the reliability of its building systems and lab-critical environments. The successful candidate will diagnose and fix problems, direct vendor and contract-support partners, and serve as the primary point of contact for researchers.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the primary onsite contact for facilities service requests

- Operate and maintain lab HVAC systems

- Support lab utilities

- Coordinate biosafety-adjacent equipment maintenance

- Self-perform routine multi-trade work

- Interpret and adjust the building automation system

- Exercise sound judgment on when to self-perform vs. engage a specialist

- Maintain standby-power readiness

- Run small-to-mid facility projects

- Support compliance with various regulations and guidelines

- Drive energy efficiency and monitoring across high-load systems

Requirements:

- 5+ years operating and maintaining building mechanical systems

- Demonstrated ability to self-perform routine work across mechanical/HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and general construction

- Proven ability to direct and manage the quality of vendors and contract support

- Ability to read MEP drawings

- EPA 608 Universal refrigerant certification

- Valid California driver's license

- Willingness to participate in a shared after-hours on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications:

- Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

- Experience in a BSL-2 research or vivarium environment

- Journey-level trade credential or Stationary Engineer certification

- OSHA 30, boiler operator, or backflow tester certification

- Experience with -80°C freezer farms and cryogenic systems

- Bilingual in English and Spanish

## Skills

### Required
- HVAC
- mechanical
- electrical
- plumbing
- building automation systems
- EPA 608 Universal refrigerant certification
- Spanish

### Nice to have
- Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- BSL-2 research or vivarium environment
- Journey-level trade credential or Stationary Engineer certification
- OSHA 30
- -80°C freezer farms and cryogenic systems

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