Senior Controls Engineer Jobs in Hackensack, NJ (NOW HIRING)

Brooklyn, NY Full-time $140,000 – $175,000 plus equity and benefits

DaisyChain Energy is seeking a highly capable, self-sufficient engineer to own the deployment and integration of field-based electrical monitoring and control systems across commercial and institutional sites. This is a hands-on execution role — you'll be the person who coordinates with customers and their contractors, shows up, gets systems live, and makes sure they work, all in a process-driven way that helps scale the business and its impact. This role combines:

• Field deployment and commissioning
• Device integration and communications
• Customer-facing technical leadership
• Feedback into product and platform development (the ELO platform)

You will be responsible for translating real-world electrical infrastructure into robust, scalable, and well-documented systems that integrate seamlessly with our cloud platform.

Field deployment & commissioning

• Coordinate metering installations
• Configure and troubleshoot industrial communications: IP networking (VPNs, APNs, routing), cellular gateways, and remote access
• Implement and integrate protocols including Modbus (RTU/TCP), DNP3, BACnet, and MQTT / REST interfaces
• Ensure reliable telemetry pipelines

Customer-facing technical leadership

• Act as the technical lead on site deployments
• Clearly communicate installation requirements, risks and constraints (such as working around utility equipment), and data and control capabilities
• Help customers understand power-quality issues and interpret events and system behavior
• Design and implement metering devices and their associated communications devices

Process development & scalability

• Define, document, and improve the processes we execute as we scale
• Evolve how we work with customers and third parties to accelerate deployment and reach

Core engineering background

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• 5–10+ years in power systems, controls, or field engineering, or strong hands-on equivalent experience

Power systems & field knowledge

• Strong understanding of 3-phase power systems, CT/PT installations and metering practices, and electrical panels and switchgear
• Experience with industrial communications protocols (Modbus, DNP3, BACnet)
• Familiarity with IP networking in field environments

• Some exposure to scripting (Python preferred) is a strong plus
• Exposure to DERMS / ADMS concepts

This role will fail without these:

• High ownership and self-sufficiency: you can take a deployment from concept to installed to working to documented
• Systems thinking: you understand how electrical, communications, and software layers interact
• Field pragmatism: you can solve real-world problems under constraints of space, safety, and access
• Organization and discipline: you maintain clean documentation and repeatable processes
• Customer confidence: you can lead discussions with facility engineers and electricians credibly

DaisyChain Energy was created with one goal — to make it a financial no-brainer for the built environment to decarbonize. To that end, we have developed an electricity management platform that helps commercial property owners reduce operating costs, improve reliability and power quality, unlock new revenue streams, and flip the economics on electrification and decarbonization — all while meeting the needs of an increasingly strained grid. We serve multifamily buildings, hospitals, data centers, and hyperscalers through a unified software and controls stack. We're a fast-growing startup solving real-world problems at the intersection of hardware, software, and the clean energy transition.

DaisyChain Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of age, political affiliation, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, sexual orientation, military service, or national origin. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates. Selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone.