Principal PLC Controls & Automation Engineer – Data Center Infrastructure
Company: Jabil
Location: Austin, TX (Remote)
Salary: $132,400 - $238,400 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-03-30
About this role
At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.
How will you make an impact?
Jabil is seeking a PLC Controls & Automation Engineer to serve as the technical authority for automation architecture across advanced liquid cooled factory and data center ecosystems. This role drives the controls strategy, standards and system level design for mission critical cooling infrastructure, spanning central plant through IT rack level systems. This engineer will lead with deep technical expertise showcasing an ability to outline architectures, author control philosophies and sequences of operations, ensuring scalability, write reliable and maintainable automation coding for solutions across multi‑platform PLC environments.
Job Title: Principal PLC Controls & Automation Engineer
Organization : Data Center Infrastructure (DCI) Team
Location: Remote\* OR Austin, TX
- Requires up to 20% domestic and/or international travel (rare)
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Leadership
- Personally architect, build, and deploy PLC control systems for complex liquid cooled factory and data center environments, owning solutions from concept through commissioning.
- Write, structure, and maintain production grade PLC, SCADA and HMI code as the primary technical contributor, setting the bar for quality, performance and maintainability through direct execution.
- Establish engineering standards, templates, and reusable design frameworks.
- Lead design reviews, FA...