Apple
Controls Engineer, Data Center Engineering
Dallas, Texas +4 · Full-time · Posted Jul 27, 2026
- Location
- Dallas, Texas
Maiden, North Carolina
Mesa, Arizona
Prineville, Oregon
Sparks, Nevada - Experience
- 5+ years required; preferred qualification states 8+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent job-related experience.
About the job
Designs, deploys, commissions, and improves integrated electrical and mechanical control systems for Apple data centers, including their monitoring platform.
What you'll do
- Design and review electrical and mechanical automation systems, specifications, and sequences of operations.
- Program or oversee controllers, integrate system data into the Ignition-based DCIS, and oversee commissioning and troubleshooting.
- Coordinate with project stakeholders and support operations through training, mentorship, and incident response.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent job-related experience.
- 5+ years of engineering experience with control systems in data centers or mission-critical environments for both electrical power and mechanical/HVAC systems.
- Understanding of controls for high-availability electrical and mechanical systems.
- Experience programming DDC/PLC controllers and redlining controls drawings.
Nice to have
- 8+ years of data center controls experience spanning design, construction, and commissioning; specification authorship experience.
- Experience with named control platforms, communication protocols, DCIS technologies, AI tools, or AI/ML analytics.
Tools
EPMS, BAS, DDC, PLC, MQTT, Inductive Automation's Ignition, BACnet, Modbus
AI focus
Preferred proficiency using AI for specification and sequence authoring, control-logic and Python development, and applying AI/ML analytics to operational data for predictive fault detection, anomaly detection, and performance optimization.
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