# Controls Engineer, Power Generation and Microgird

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital and delivery partners, is building the infrastructure required to support frontier AI systems. The Data Center Engineering team defines repeatable technical standards and carries them through design, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness. The team works across data center facilities, power generation, compute infrastructure, construction, procurement, and operations to deliver reliable capacity at unprecedented scale and speed. About the Role We are seeking a Controls Engineer to design, program, integrate and commission on-site power generation and microgrid control systems serving large AI data center campuses. You will own control architecture and functional requirements across generation packages, balance-of-plant systems, electrical protection, microgrid controls, and data center monitoring. You will work from concept through factory testing, site commissioning, performance validation, and operational improvement. This role requires hands-on experience with industrial control systems, including PLC and DCS programming, plant-level control sequences, equipment integration, simulation, testing and co

- **Id**: 3892040
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openai-controls-engineer-power-generation-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T21:37:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T07:02:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9437
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Conversational AI, Information Security, Code Intelligence, AI Research Labs

## Company

- **Id**: 2
- **Name**: OpenAI
- **Domain**: openai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/openai>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 199
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.829
- **Repost share**: 0.01
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 257000
- **Max**: 327000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 327000

## Technologies

- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **DNP3** — Optional: yes
- **Grid-Forming Inverters** — Optional: yes
- **IEC 61850** — Optional: yes
- **OPC UA** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T21:48:48Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 262 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 262

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 327000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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