Controls Deployment Engineer

Do you enjoy getting hands-on with building systems, solving technical problems, and seeing your work come to life in the field? Are you ready to help shape the future of intelligent, autonomous buildings?

About PassiveLogic®

PassiveLogic is the first fully autonomous platform for buildings. We’ve reinvented the fundamental principles of automation to democratise technology, optimise buildings, and reduce the world’s carbon footprint. We are a team of technologists, engineers, and creatives dedicated to making a sustainable impact through real-world solutions.

We are looking for team members who have a passion for technology and want to work on cutting-edge problems with real-world solutions. Our culture is built on bringing together the most talented engineers, thinkers, and creatives—backed by the world’s leading investors—working together to make the future a reality.

About the Role

This is a career-defining opportunity to play a crucial role in a hyper-scale AI company that is transforming the future of autonomous systems, energy, and the built environment.

As a Controls Deployment Engineer, you’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with experienced engineers to bring autonomous buildings to life. This is a opportunity to build expertise at the intersection of commercial HVAC, intelligent controls, and cutting-edge AI while helping shape the future of the built environment.

What you’ll do

Work on our deployment sites: Work alongside our Applied Engineering team to deploy, commission, and validate autonomous building technologies in live commercial buildings.

Investigate Building Systems: Perform site surveys, inspect HVAC equipment and controls, and gather the information needed to support digital twin development and successful deployments.

Commission and Validate Systems: Test building controls, sensors, actuators, and equipment to ensure systems operate correctly and are ready for autonomous operation.

Troubleshoot Across the Stack: Diagnose issues spanning mechanical equipment, building controls, networking, and software, following problems from the physical system through to the autonomous platform.

Support Autonomous Building Deployments: Assist with system startup, functional testing, and deployment activities while working closely with engineering teams to ensure reliable field performance.

Collect and Analyse Building Data: Capture, organise, and validate operational data from building systems to support system optimisation and continuous product improvement.

What you’ll bring

If your experience does not meet all our posted requirements below, we’d still love to hear from you. We are looking for practitioners who are passionate about understanding people, committed to lifelong learning, and driven by the love of what they do. If that’s you, please apply!

You must have

• Proven experience: Commercial HVAC experience. This means having spent time in mechanical rooms installing, surveying, testing, or commissioning equipment.

• Exceptional communication skills: Ability to communicate with customers, co-workers and leaders in changing environments. Bonus points for Dutch language skills.

• Organized and strategic: Curious, open-minded, and eager to contribute while continuously learning. Self-directed and capable of making progress independently without needing constant direction

• Collaborative mindset: Work effectively across teams, customers, and subcontractors to deliver successful deployments.

• Adaptability: Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment, eager to learn, iterate, and innovate. Flexible and comfortable operating in uncertain or changing situations.

• Problem solving: You own this role. When issues arise, be the empowered force that solves them, rolling-up.

You should have

• Familiarity of working on sites: Comfortable working on site, including climbing ladders, working in dark or tight spaces, opening panels, and testing control signals with a multimeter

• Interest in following problems to solution: Strong troubleshooting mindset and willingness to follow a problem from the physical equipment through the controls and software.

It’s helpful to have

• Building automation or commissioning experience: Experience programming supervisory or field controllers. Experience performing point-to-point checkout and validating systems against sequences of operation.

• Controls Hardware: Experience with embedded systems such as Raspberry Pi or similar edge-computing devices.

• Familiarity with: Linux, command-line tools, Bash, Git, Docker or Podman, and systemd.

• Experience working with: SQL, GraphQL, databases, APIs, or structured equipment data.

• Knowledge of: Building energy analysis or building-performance experience, creating or using operational dashboards.

• Ability to: use trend data and analytics to identify and root-cause building-system faults.

We know there are candidates who might not fit everything we’ve described above, or who might have experience and skills we haven’t considered. PassiveLogic can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities to the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background. Even if you don’t meet all the requirements above, we still want to hear from you.

Compensation, Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive compensation

• Generous equity share package

• Pension plan

• Paid time off

• Commute Coverage (NS Business Card or Car allowance)

• In Office Lunch

• Fun office-wide activities quarterly!

• Worldwide ski/snowboard pass

A Note on Working Onsite:

This role is based in our Amsterdam Office. We believe that creativity and cohesion flows best when we are all together. When you’re constantly innovating, transforming whole industries, inventing new products and processes, and creating a more sustainable future through technology—and we are doing all these things—we believe we’re better as a team in-person. That’s why all of our teams work from one of our office locations, five days a week.

When applying, include:

• A cover letter telling us why you're the perfect candidate for PassiveLogic

• A resume

• Extra mile — include a description of a project (of any type) you personally created, devised, built, managed, organized, or designed that was of your own self-initiative

Diversity and inclusion

Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is woven into our values and everything we do. We welcome all—come as you are and bring your whole self. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity every day by maintaining a safe and inclusive environment for our employees at every stage of their careers.