Controls Engineer, Thermofluids

Required

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
• 10+ years of experience in controls engineering for rotating machinery, including control architecture, safety interlocks, and hardware-in-the-loop validation.
• You’ve written control logic for rotating machinery and you were in the room the first time it ran.
• You’ve designed interlocks where a fault means destroyed hardware or an injured person, and you can justify every one of them from first principles.
• You’ve run hardware-in-the-loop testing that caught something real before it reached commissioning.
• You’ve tuned loops on a live machine and worked out why the model and the plant disagreed.
• You’ve handed a control system to people who did not write it, with documentation they could actually use at three in the morning.
• You're comfortable with regular travel: expect 25% or more, depending on business needs.
• Most of our engineering team, stakeholders, and work are based in Austin, TX, and we value working in person. We have a strong preference for Austin and run a hybrid model, but we're open to other locations for the right role and candidate.
• Bonus: Propulsion or vehicle test controls (engine sequencing, abort and safing logic). Variable-speed drives and high-speed motor control (VFDs, magnetic bearing controllers). Refrigeration and chiller control (superheat, head pressure, capacity staging). Industrial control platforms (Beckhoff, Siemens, Allen-Bradley, CODESYS). Model-based development and HIL (Simulink, dSPACE, NI VeriStand).
• We are committed to pay equity and transparency.
• Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.