Controls Engineer, Data Center Engineering

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world Join Apples Information Systems and Technology (ISu0026T) organization. ISu0026T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. Its Apples central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices processing billions of secure transactions and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly ISu0026T makes the impossible feel you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale Imagine what you could do Services is part of ISu0026T and the foundation of Apples global network operations managing data center equipment and systems to deliver compute storage and networking services for teams across Apple including its internal developer community. From individual facilities to a worldwide network Infrastructure Services ensures the technology underneath everything works without questionnnAre you ready to shape the intelligence behind some of the worlds most advanced critical facilities Can you bridge the worlds of electrical power control and mechanical building automation bringing both domains together into a seamless unified operational experience We are actively seeking a Data Center Controls Engineer who will thrive among a team of thinkers and doers designing and deploying the integrated control systems that keep Apples global data center infrastructure running at its best.

The Data Center Engineering team is looking for a Controls Engineer with depth in both electrical and mechanical control systems. The successful candidate will design implement and optimize automation and control systems across the full spectrum of data center infrastructure spanning electrical power mechanical systems and Apples Data Center Information System (DCIS) an integrated monitoring platform built on MQTT and Inductive Automations Ignition. This role spans the complete project lifecycle design construction administration commissioning and ongoing operational improvement with a strong emphasis on specification authorship and cross-domain technical leadership.

Design of data center automation and control systems for both electrical infrastructure: EPMS MV Power Distribution Control Systems LV transfer schemes; and mechanical infrastructure: BAS chilled water plants cooling towers CRAC/CRAH units air handling units pumping systems and airside own and continuously improve control system specifications and sequences of operations writing from scratch for new systems and scopes and iterating based on construction lessons learned RFI/change order trends and feedback from internal teams general contractors and vendors. Review project controls drawings developed by and programming of PLCs PACs and DDC controllers or technical oversight of third parties providing those systems across both electrical and mechanical control the DCIS platform by integrating electrical and mechanical system data into the Ignition-based HMI environment over MQTT ensuring a cohesive and intuitive operator experience across all control oversight of electrical and mechanical control systems ensuring all systems are validated and performing to design intent prior to handoff to controls and monitoring issues across both domains analyzing operational data leveraging fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) and implementing corrective actions to protect facility as technical liaison between design teams Au0026E consultants vendors contractors and operations driving high-quality deliverables on results-oriented training and mentorship to Operations personnel on control systems and the DCIS environment and support emergency response during significant facility incidents.

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Systems Engineering Controls Engineering or a related field or equivalent job-related experience.n5 years of engineering experience with control systems in data centers or mission-critical environments for both electrical power and mechanical/HVAC systemsnUnderstanding of controls for high-availability electrical systems (such as EPMS and MV PDCS) and mechanical systems (such as chilled water plants and BAS infrastructure)nExperience programming DDC/PLC controllers and redlining controls in IEC 61131-3 programming languages such as Structured Text (ST) Ladder Diagram (LD) Function Block Diagram (FBD) and Instruction List (IL)

8 years of experience with data center control systems with demonstrated involvement across design construction and commissioning phases for both electrical and mechanical control experience authoring and maintaining technical control system specifications including the ability to develop specifications and Sequences of Operations (SOO) from scratch for new systems or scopes; experience with MV PDCS specifications strongly and maintained comprehensive control system specifications from the ground up for greenfield projects or new scopes of work including writing Sequences of Operations (SOO).nDemonstrated track record of reducing RFIs and change orders through high-quality specification authorship with direct experience writing or revising controls specifications based on lessons learned from construction and vendor knowledge of electrical and mechanical control platformsincluding: Schneider Electric Modicon M580; Siemens Desigo / Simatic S7; Johnson Controls Metasys; Tridium Niagara (JACE); SEL RTAC; and generator controllers such as Woodward easYgen or DEIF with field communication protocols including BACnet Modbus OPC UA and IEC 61850 (MMS/GOOSE) and integration of those systems into facility management and monitoring with data center information system stacks including: MQTT as the messaging and telemetry transport layer; Inductive Automations Ignition as the unified SCADA/HMI and data aggregation platform; and cloud analytics integration delivering a cohesive operational view across electrical and mechanical with IEC 61499 event-driven Function Block architecture and its design principles for distributed control; Python scripting for data analysis or system integration; experience with Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) data trending and alarming; and familiarity with software revision control tools (GitHub GitLab).nProficiency with AI tools to enhance daily work including AI-assisted authoring for specifications and sequences of operations AI coding assistants for control logic and Python development and applied understanding of how AI/ML-driven analytics can be layered over operational data platforms (such as DCIS/MQTT) to enable predictive fault detection anomaly detection and performance optimization.