Controls Engineer jobs: 227 open roles
Open controls engineer jobs taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Listings that state pay show a median of $106,500 a year.

The market for controls engineer work
Every figure names its source. Skills and AI-skill shares describe the whole Engineering function this title sits in.
- Verified open controls engineer jobs
- 227
- Median pay in listings that state it
- $106,500
- Engineering openings that ask for AI skills
- 8%
Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.
See the detail →Source: NextChapter verified openings.
Source: NextChapter verified openings.
Skills most often named in openings
- 1. python10%
- 2. project management5%
- 3. linux4%
- 4. c++4%
- 5. aws4%
- 6. agile4%
- 7. supply chain4%
- 8. procurement3%
AI skills worth building for this work
- 1. ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- 2. LLM application engineering
- 3. RAG and vector search
- 4. Model fine-tuning
- 5. Model training and deep learning
- 6. MLOps
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Open controls engineer jobs
Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
- Controls Engineer, Power Generation and Microgird
OpenAI · San Francisco
$257k–$327k · Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer
Redcloudconsulting · Seattle, Washington
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer, Capacity Delivery
Fluidstack · Austin, TX
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer - Actuation
Apptronik · Austin, TX
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer, Rocket Motor Systems
Anduril Industries · McHenry, IL
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer, Power Generation - Memphis
SpaceXSI · Southaven, MS
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer, Thermofluids
Fluidstack · Austin, TX
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer
AST SpaceMobile · Midland, TX
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer, Commissioning Automation
Fluidstack · Austin, TX
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer, Energy Management
Fluidstack · Austin, TX
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer, Demand Management
Fluidstack · Austin, TX
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer - York, PA
Engel · York, PA
$95k–$110k · Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer, Supercomputer Infrastructure - Memphis
SpaceXSI · Southaven, MS
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer, PLC Programming
Osaro · San Francisco, CA
Nov 6, 2026
- Controls Engineer - Data Center Operations
Fluidstack · Abernathy, TX
Nov 6, 2026
Showing the newest 15 of about 227 verified open jobs here. Search all jobs
Controls Engineer salary
The middle half of controls engineer listings that state pay run from $94,500 to $123,500. See the full controls engineer salary breakdown.
Engineering jobs in the rankings
Rankings about engineering jobs
- Best cities for software and engineering jobs #1 San Francisco (3,412 openings)
- Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($216k)
- Most requested AI skills in engineering jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (6.1%)
- AI tools named most often in engineering jobs #1 Claude (1.7%)
- Employers with the most engineering jobs #1 Amazon (2,992 roles)
Where controls engineer jobs are
- Texas26
- Ohio21
- California19
- Georgia19
- North Carolina18
- Michigan17
- Illinois15
- Pennsylvania10
- Massachusetts8
- New York8
- Kentucky8
- Florida7
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Controls Engineer jobs by city and state
Employers hiring controls engineers
- Actalent 17
- Automationtechies 7
- Electrical Automation Services 7
- Fluidstack 6
- E Tech Group 6
- Rise Technical Recruitment 5
- Applied Industrial Technologies 4
- Lincoln Electric Holdings 4
- Anduril Industries 4
- RD Worldwide 4
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