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Salary: USD 125,000 - 180,000 / annual
AtmosZero is building next-generation industrial steam infrastructure. The company's 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. Rather than forcing facilities to choose between reliability and sustainability, AtmosZero enables a practical path toward future-ready steam systems that integrate with existing operations.
Industrial steam runs manufacturing across food, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, and other essential industries, yet most steam is still produced by combustion-based boilers. AtmosZero is replacing that legacy equipment with an electrified platform designed for practical deployment in existing boiler rooms. Boiler 2.0 is moving from development hardware into repeatable customer delivery, with a 1 MW customer system now driving controls implementation, integration, testing, and commissioning readiness.
The Controls Engineer will own major portions of an industrial controls system from requirements through commissioning. This is a hardware-close role requiring movement between design documentation, PLC code, HMI and SCADA configuration, panels, field devices, test equipment, and operating data.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Deliver the 1 MW controls system: Complete PLC programming, sequence implementation, controls integration, and system-level testing for the 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 infrastructure to enable operator control, diagnostics, and fleet visibility.
- Establish controls architecture, software standards, diagnostics, and commissioning methods needed for repeatable product delivery.
**Requirements:**
- 5+ years of controls engineering experience with industrial equipment, PLCs, and commissioning.
- Proficiency with Siemens PLC programming (TIA Portal, structured text, ladder logic).
- Experience with HMI/SCADA platforms (Ignition, FactoryTalk, or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of industrial networking (Ethernet/IP, Profinet, Modbus, or similar).
- Experience with functional protection logic, alarm rationalization, machinery safety, and standards such as NFPA 79, NFPA 70, UL, or CE requirements.
- Experience with control-panel design review, wiring diagrams, loop diagrams, network diagrams, panel checkout, FAT, SAT, and field commissioning.
- Experience with software version control, coding standards, simulation, automated or bench testing, release management, and change control for industrial controls.
- Experience supporting production equipment, remote fleets, customer sites, or field-service organizations.
- Experience moving a controls platform from prototype development into repeatable production.
- Non-conventional career paths are welcome if you have commissioned complex industrial equipment and can demonstrate strong controls judgment.
