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Controls Engineer, Power Generation and Microgird

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Controls Engineer, Power Generation and Microgird is a still-open role at OpenAI on Jobrow. Location: On-site · San Francisco · California · United States. Listed pay: $257k–$327k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 23 hours ago; last confirmed 15 hours ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.

Pay
$257k–$327k
Workplace
On-site
Location
San Francisco · California · United States
First seen
23 hours ago
Last seen
15 hours ago
Board
Ashby
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About this role

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital and delivery partners, is building the infrastructure required to support frontier AI systems.

  • Function: Engineering
  • Seniority: mid

Location & pay

On-site · San Francisco · California · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $257k–$327k.

Source

Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for OpenAI. First seen 23 hours ago; last seen 15 hours ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.

Posting

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital and delivery partners, is building the infrastructure required to support frontier AI systems. The Data Center Engineering team defines repeatable technical standards and carries them through design, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness. The team works across data center facilities, power generation, compute infrastructure, construction, procurement, and operations to deliver reliable capacity at unprecedented scale and speed. About the Role We are seeking a Controls Engineer to design, program, integrate and commission on-site power generation and microgrid control systems serving large AI data center campuses. You will own control architecture and functional requirements across generation packages, balance-of-plant systems, electrical protection, microgrid controls, and data center monitoring. You will work from concept through factory testing, site commissioning, performance validation, and operational improvement. This role requires hands-on experience with industrial control systems, including PLC and DCS programming, plant-level control sequences, equipment integration, simulation, testing and commissioning. The engineers will work with equipment vendors, system integrators and the broader data center team to make sure the complete power system operates safely and reliably across normal and failure conditions. Travel: 50% Key Responsibilities - Power Generation and Microgrid Controls - Design, program and commission plant power controllers (PPCs) and microgrid control systems for gas turbine and reciprocating engine power plants. - Develop control sequences for grid-connected, islanded and transition modes, including startup, shutdown, synchronization, load sharing, import/export control, load shedding, black start, restoration and resynchronization. - Coordinate active power, reactive power, voltage and frequency controls across generators, energy storage, MV UPS and other distributed energy resources. - Define how the plant responds to generator trips, loss of utility power, large load changes, equipment failures and loss of communication. - Work with OEMs to define the boundaries between turbine or engine controls, generator controls, the PPC, protection systems and data center controls. - Electrical systems and utility interconnection - Review utility and transmission-provider interconnection requirements and transl

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