Controls Engineer

Atmos Zero is building the next generation of industrial steam infrastructure. Our flagship product, Boiler 2.0, is a modular industrial steam heat pump designed to help manufacturers reduce operational risk, improve flexibility, and modernize steam generation over time. Rather than forcing facilities to choose between reliability and sustainability, Atmos Zero enables a practical path toward future-ready steam systems that integrate with existing operations and scale with customer needs.

Reports to: VP, Engineering

Industrial steam runs manufacturing across food, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, and other essential industries, yet most steam is still produced by combustion-based boilers. Atmos Zero is replacing that legacy equipment with an electrified platform designed for practical deployment in existing boiler rooms.

Boiler 2.0 is a modular industrial heat-pump system that produces steam using electricity. We are moving the platform from development hardware into repeatable customer delivery, with a 1 MW customer system now driving controls implementation, integration, testing, and commissioning readiness.

The controls challenge spans process sequences, compressor and drive interfaces, distributed instrumentation, protection logic, HMI and SCADA, industrial networking, data infrastructure, and live-system troubleshooting. This role adds the hands‑on capacity to complete the 1 MW system and turn first‑unit learning into a reusable controls platform for future systems.

We are hiring an experienced engineer who can own major portions of an industrial controls system from requirements through commissioning. The role is intentionally hardware‑close: you will move between design documentation, PLC code, HMI and SCADA configuration, panels, field devices, test equipment, and operating data.

• Controls Engineer (5+ years). You own controls implementation and issue resolution for assigned systems and subsystems, while helping establish the architecture, software standards, diagnostics, and commissioning methods needed for repeatable product delivery.

If your experience does not follow a conventional path but you have commissioned complex industrial equipment and can demonstrate strong controls judgment, apply anyway.

• Deliver the 1 MW controls system
• Complete PLC programming, sequence implementation, controls integration, and system‑level testing for the 1 MW Boiler 2.0 platform.
• Develop and verify startup, normal operation, shutdown, maintenance, fault, trip, and recovery behavior, including interlocks, permissives, alarms, timeouts, and protective responses.
• Own controls issue resolution during panel checkout, I/O checkout, build, factory acceptance testing, commissioning, and early operation.
• Build the controls architecture and software platform
• Develop modular, state‑based control software using consistent equipment modules, control modules, interfaces, naming, and version‑control practices.
• Configure Siemens PLC and distributed I/O hardware, industrial networks, drives, IO‑Link devices, instrumentation, and third‑party equipment interfaces.
• Create reusable code libraries, simulation and test utilities, diagnostic tools, and deployment practices that reduce commissioning effort and replication risk.
• Develop HMI, SCADA, data, and remote‑support capabilities
• Build and maintain operator interfaces for commissioning, local operation, troubleshooting, and service, with clear alarm and abnormal‑condition presentation.
• Integrate local and centralized data collection, historian functions, trends, event logging, dashboards, and remote monitoring while maintaining appropriate separation between customer and internal networks.
• Turn operating and commissioning…