Senior Staff Controls Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems

• Extensive Experience: At least 10+ years of technically applicable, hands-on professional experience in complex engineering or critical infrastructure environments
• Core Technology Expertise: Recognized Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least two of the following three domains: Inductive Automation Ignition infrastructure, DevOps practices, or containerization / orchestration technologies
• Continuous Mastery: Demonstrated track record of rapidly mastering emerging enterprise tech stacks, with the expectation to achieve SME status across all three core domains (Ignition, DevOps, and containerization)
• Critical Environment Background: Direct professional experience in data centers (highly preferred) or similar mission-critical environments such as Oil & Gas, semiconductor manufacturing, or energy generation
• Strategic Blueprinting: Proven ability to translate business goals into an actionable enterprise scaling plan and robust technical architecture
• Mandatory Education: A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Desirable

• As a Sr Staff Controls Engineer, Platform, you will be a driving visionary force and primary governance authority for the software and data architecture of Crusoe's control systems
• This role is fundamental to Crusoe’s mission: by owning the overall strategy and technical makeup of our telemetry evolution, development standards, and facility systems compute deployment, you will ensure our AI-optimized infrastructure scales seamlessly and reliably across the enterprise
• Working closely with cross-functional technical leadership and managing enterprise-focused vendors, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the technical strategy that directly supports our rapidly expanding greenfield projects and campuses
• You won't just be managing systems; you will be defining the standards and deployment blueprints that govern our global footprin
• Strategic Technical Leadership: Serve as a lead architect and collaborative driver for the enterprise scaling plan and compute deployment strategy for all facility control systems and servers
• Enterprise Collaboration: Work directly with technical peers and enterprise partners to architect and develop our global controls strategy, acting as a defining technical authority
• Repository Governance: Maintain and govern our git repositories, ensuring the integrity and standardization of enterprise-level templates for Ignition UDT primitives and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions
• Documentation & Scaling: Develop and own a comprehensive documentation strategy to enable ongoing maintenance, seamless operations, and rapid enterprise scaling
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Coordinate extensively with the broader controls team to ensure strict compliance and standardization with ongoing greenfield projects and campus build-outs
• Telemetry Evolution: Lead the evolution of our telemetry architecture, establishing robust development and standardization strategies for critical facility data
• Technical Mentorship: Mentor and elevate the technical capabilities of surrounding engineers and controls team members on best practices for software, data architecture, and enterprise standards