Controls Engineer, Data Center Engineering

Controls Engineer, Data Center Engineering

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Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple's Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It's Apple's 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, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.

Infrastructure Services is part of IS&T and the foundation of Apple's 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 question. Are you ready to shape the intelligence behind some of the world's 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 Apple's 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 Apple's Data Center Information System (DCIS), an integrated monitoring platform built on MQTT and Inductive Automation's 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 economizers.
• Author, 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 EORs.
• Configuration and programming of PLCs, PACs, and DDC controllers, or technical oversight of third parties providing those systems, across both electrical and mechanical control platforms.
• Support 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 domains.
• Commissioning oversight of electrical and mechanical control systems, ensuring all systems are validated and performing to design intent prior to handoff to operations.
• Troubleshoot controls and monitoring issues across both domains — analyzing operational data, leveraging fault detection and diagnostics (FDD), and implementing corrective actions to protect facility reliability.
• Serve as technical liaison between design teams, A&E consultants, vendors, contractors, and operations, driving high-quality deliverables on results-oriented schedules.
• Provide training and mentorship to Operations personnel on control systems and the DCIS environment, and support emergency response during significant facility incidents.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related field,…