Instrumentation & Controls; I&C) Engineer – Data Center Power Generation

Brunel has partnered with SB Energy to hire an Instrumentation & Controls (I&C) Engineer
- Data Center Power Generation to support the development and execution of large-scale power generation and data center infrastructure projects across the U.S.

In this role, you will serve as SB Energy's owner-side I&C subject matter expert, providing technical oversight for simple-cycle and combined-cycle gas power generation projects from engineering and procurement through construction, commissioning, and turnover. You will work closely with OEMs, EPC contractors, control system suppliers, utilities, grid operators, consultants, and internal engineering teams to ensure safe, reliable, and fully integrated plant control systems.

SB Energy is a fast-growing energy and infrastructure company backed by Soft Bank Group and Ares Infrastructure
. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company develops, builds, owns, and operates large-scale power and data center infrastructure across the United States.

Since launching in 2019, SB Energy has grown into a leading integrated platform with more than 3 GW in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data center infrastructure nationwide. The company combines innovation, technical expertise, and execution excellence to deliver reliable and secure infrastructure that helps power America’s future.

The Instrumentation & Controls Engineer
- Data Center Power Generation will provide owner-side technical leadership for instrumentation, controls, and automation systems supporting simple-cycle and combined-cycle gas generation projects.

You will oversee I&C design and system integration, coordinate interfaces between major equipment packages and plant control systems, review engineering deliverables, resolve technical issues, and support projects through procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and final turnover.

This position will also play an important role in integrating power generation controls with data center load requirements and utility/grid operator systems.

Location: Hybrid/Remote with approximately 25% travel to project sites in Pike County, Ohio

• Serve as the owner’s I&C engineering subject matter expert for simple-cycle and combined-cycle gas generation projects from initial design through commissioning and closeout.
• Review I&C design criteria, specifications, drawings, control narratives, logic diagrams, equipment selections, and control system architecture.
• Provide technical oversight of DCS, PLCs, turbine control systems, HMIs, historian systems, instrumentation, control valves, and industrial communication networks
  .
• Evaluate control strategies, operating sequences, alarms, permissives, interlocks, and trips to ensure alignment with process requirements, equipment protection, and operating philosophy.
• Coordinate I&C interfaces across gas turbines, steam turbines, HRSGs, generators, balance-of-plant equipment, OEM packages, EPC contractors, and control system suppliers.
• Define and coordinate control narratives, signal lists, communication protocols, data maps, time synchronization, and command/status interfaces.
• Support integration between generation controls and data center power requirements
  , including load changes, operating modes, dispatch signals, and response to loss of generation or load.
• Lead and participate in I&C design reviews and drive resolution of technical comments and open engineering issues.
• Develop and coordinate technical responses to RFIs, equipment submittals, vendor drawings, technical deviations, and proposed substitutions
  .
• Review proposed design and configuration changes for impacts on plant safety, reliability, operability, cost, and schedule.
• Develop or review I&C specifications, technical requisitions, procurement packages, and supplier proposals.
• Participate in Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and testing of DCS, PLC, and packaged control systems, including simulation of interfaces, operating sequences, alarms, and interlocks.
• Coordinate with utilities,
  ISOs/RTOs
  , OEMs, and EPC contractors on generator interconnection controls, communications, telemetry, dispatch, and remote monitoring requirements.
• Provide technical support during construction, installation, calibration, loop checks, site acceptance testing, commissioning, startup, and performance testing.
• Support troubleshooting of control systems and equipment interfaces during commissioning and initial plant operations.
• Review as-built drawings, final…