Director, Controls, AMERS

Location: AMER; remote-first team with travel across regions as required.

Salary: USD 170,000–240,000 base per year, with potential bonus, equity, commission, and benefits.

Company

Nscale operates an integrated AI cloud infrastructure platform spanning energy, data centers, GPU superclusters, orchestration, and AI services for AI-native companies, enterprises, and governments across Europe and the US.

What you will do

• Own controls standards for narratives, sequences, alarm management, high-performance HMI, master points lists, telemetry, and MQTT/Sparkplug B conventions.
• Govern the SCADA platform portfolio, including Ignition, platform qualification, standards deviations, and the Skid-to-Master Interface Specification.
• Approve management of change for operating controls and BMS systems, oversee patch testing, and coordinate implementation with the CISO organization.
• Lead commissioning governance, including project Cx strategy, FAT/CAT/SAT, readiness gates, turnover, and independent acceptance.
• Drive DMfA through control-panel catalogs, build-to-print packages, and fabricator skid-PLC integration under Master PLCs.
• Lead, coach, recruit, and develop SCADA, controls, MEP, commissioning, and engineering specialists across the directorate.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in industrial automation, controls, SCADA, or mission-critical facility systems, including leadership of senior specialists or engineers across multiple sites.
• Deep expertise in BMS/BAS, EPMS, SCADA/HMI, Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider Electric, OPC UA, and MQTT/Sparkplug B telemetry architectures.
• Experience setting and enforcing organization-wide engineering standards, including ISA-18.2 alarm management and ISA-101 HMI practice.
• Proven commissioning governance for complex facilities, including FAT/CAT/SAT regimes, readiness gates, turnover, and early-life stability.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, controls, mechanical, or computer engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Multi-site SCADA standardization or platform migration across mixed incumbent systems.
• Design for Manufacture and Assembly, modular or off-site manufacturing, and build-to-print delivery experience.
• ISA Certified Automation Professional, PE/P.Eng./CEng, or ISA/IEC 62443 credential.
• Hyperscale, AI, or GPU-dense data center experience, including liquid cooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, flexible workplace with autonomy over the working day and virtual collaboration across geographies.
• Collaborative, supportive, innovative environment centered on ownership, accountability, openness, transparency, and inclusion.
• Competitive package with base salary, equity, annual compensation reviews, and potential bonus or commission programs.
• Potential medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.
• Progression plan with opportunities to lead, challenge the status quo, and develop professionally.