Principal Data Center Controls Engineer
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Job Description
About Montera At Montera , we’re building the future of digital infrastructure. Founder-led with $1. 5B backed by Stonepeak, Montera is driven by a future-focused vision: to develop and operate hyperscale data centers essential for tomorrow's technology.
Our mission is to deliver strategically located, hyperscale data centers designed for speed, reliability, and scalability. Backed by decades of experience in design, construction, and operations, we don’t just build—we execute with purpose.
Our Values Client First Alignment: We align every solution to our clients’ goals. Speed with Certainty: Velocity matters. We deliver with urgency and precision. Operational Excellence: Decades of experience drive our high standards. Safety & Integrity: Safety is non-negotiable. We lead with integrity and transparency.
Ownership Mentality: We think like owners, because we are. The Opportunity Montera is seeking a Principal Controls Engineer to lead portfolio-wide standards, own reference architectures, and are accountable for design and operational outcomes across multiple sites.
This role reports to the Vice President, Data Center Design for direct design delivery, and provides dotted-line support to the CTO on product definition — contributing discipline expertise to requirements capture and the definition of Montera ’s product.
The Principal Data Center Controls Engineer owns the controls schema, monitoring architecture, and data model that run across Montera ’s fleet — spanning BMS, electrical SCADA, and DCIM.
This role defines the single source of truth for every monitored and controlled point in the facility and, critically, defines the data exposure model: what operational telemetry Montera surfaces to itself for operations and what it exposes to the customer under the lease and SLAs.
Montera facilities are single-tenant — one customer per building or campus — so the exposed points are defined in direct conjunction with that customer. The role works hand-in-glove with the Pr