Python
AI Controls Solutions Engineer
Overview
Phaidra is building the future of industrial automation by creating AI-powered control systems for the industrial sector, enabling facilities to automatically learn and improve over time.
Job Description
Phaidra creates AI-powered control systems for the industrial sector, enabling industrial facilities to automatically learn and improve over time. They use reinforcement learning algorithms to convert raw sensor data into high-value actions and decisions, focusing on industrial applications.
Responsibilities
- - Work closely with Technical Account Managers and Data Scientists as the technical experts for Phaidra's customers
- - Use Phaidra's platform and tools to put AI into production
- - Create a model of the facility for ingestion by the AI Agent
- - Work closely with AI research and machine learning application engineering teams
- - Help customers get the most out of Phaidra's technologies
- - Define AI problems, understand technology capabilities and limitations
- - Identify opportunities for value creation and process improvement
- - Rapidly deploy solutions to production using Phaidra's platform and tools
- - Work with the product team to identify and define product requirements
- - Ensure automated tools enable Phaidra to scale across thousands of customers
- - Role can include 25% travel
Required Skills
- - 5-10 years of work experience as a controls engineer, programmer, or equivalent
- - Knowledge of chiller plant fundamentals, configurations, and sequence of operations
- - Understanding of applied thermodynamics for cooling systems, refrigeration systems, and hydronics
- - Experience in controls design engineering or strong working knowledge of industrial and commercial control systems and protocols such as BACnet and Modbus
- - Experience programming control systems with PLC, ladder logic, text, or block programming languages
- - Deep understanding of data center specific controls and cooling methodologies
- - Understanding the applications and control strategies of air side chilled water and direct expansion cooling systems
- - Strong proficiency in working with data center operations teams
- - Ability to analyze the performance and viability of engineered solutions
- - Passion for problem solving and using scalable solutions to solve repeat problems
- - Ability to translate customer needs into coherent needs documentation
- - Good educational background in related disciplines
- - Ability to read and write Python scripts
- - Excellent communication skills
- - Supports peers and helps them to improve their work
- - Shares company values: curiosity, transparency & directness, outcome-based performance, and customer empathy
Benefits
- - Fast-paced and team-oriented environment
- - 100% remote company with a digital nomad policy
- - Competitive compensation & equity
- - Outsized responsibilities & professional development
- - Training is foundational; functional, customer immersion, and development training
- - Medical, dental, and vision insurance (exact benefits vary by region)
- - Unlimited paid time off, with a minimum of 20 days off per year requirement
- - Paid parental leave (exact benefits vary by region)
- - Home office setup allowance, coworking space stipend, and company MacBook
About the company
Phaidra provides artificial intelligence controls to optimize mission critical facilities. Our closed-loop AI control service helps your operations team deliver step function improvements in plant stability, energy efficiency and sustainability.