FluidStack
Controls Engineer, Demand Management
About this role
Fluidstack seeks a Controls Engineer to design and deploy demand management systems that dynamically adjust gigawatts of data center load in response to grid signals and electricity prices. You'll engineer control logic coordinating IT, cooling, and on-site generation while maintaining SLAs, integrate with utility and market systems, and validate strategies through simulation before fleet deployment.
What you'll do
- Design and implement demand management control logic that responds to grid signals and market pricing
- Build coordination strategies across IT load, cooling systems, and behind-the-meter generation resources
- Integrate with utility and ISO/RTO market systems to receive signals and report verified settlement-grade responses
- Develop and validate control strategies in simulation environments before deployment
- Deploy control systems across the company's growing data center fleet
- Ensure all automation maintains strict SLA compliance without impacting customer service
What they're looking for
- Control systems engineering for energy or industrial applications
- Demand response or microgrid control experience
- Power systems knowledge and grid integration
- Utility and market signal integration
- Simulation and validation methodologies
- Data center power and cooling systems
- Optimization algorithms
- Real-time constraint management and systems thinking
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FluidStack
FluidStack builds AI infrastructure at scale, developing data centers and warehouse operations designed to handle gigawatt-capacity compute deployment. The company is hiring for warehouse engineers, data center operations specialists, product engineers, and people leaders to support rapid infrastructure expansion across multiple sites.
- Website
- fluidstack.io
Likely interview questions
- Describe a demand response or load control system you've engineered—what constraints did you maintain and how did you validate it wouldn't violate them?
- Walk us through how you'd approach integrating real utility market signals into automated control logic for safety and settlement compliance.