Chief Engineer, LV Switchboards & Distribution Busway

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is hiring for a Manufacturing Engineering role focused on the end-to-end design and production release of LV switchboards and related distribution busways for its data-center fleet.

You will own the design authority, lead cross-functional teams through testing and certification, and coordinate with vendors to ensure scalable, compliant production across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Designed LV switchboards or busway at an OEM and carried a product through UL 891 or UL 857 listing from start to finish.
• Experience running short-circuit withstand and temperature rise test campaigns and redesigns on bus, bracing, or joints.
• Made decisions on contact systems, joints and plating for long-term durability under load cycles.
• Designed for manufacturability at volume: sheet metal, plating, torque specs, and assembly sequences.

Responsibilities

• Own the clean-sheet design of Fluidstack’s LV switchboard and UL 891/UL 857 platforms from concept to released production drawings.
• Lead design, testing campaigns, and parallel listings (NRTL) for production within roughly 12 months.
• Head a dedicated team of electrical and mechanical engineers plus drafting, compliance, and test staff.
• Drive end-to-end listing programs: test plans, witness testing, and certification files for factory release.
• Collaborate with localization and third-party vendors to ensure consistent product across Fluidstack data centers.

Skills

LV switchboards

UL 891 / UL 857

Short-circuit testing

Manufacturability at volume

Leadership of product team

Ratings documentation

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we’ve ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don’t share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We’re singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space.

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.

• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.

• Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.

• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

• Build something that actually matters. If you’re going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

The Manufacturing Engineering Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Take product lines from clean sheet to production. This is an opportunity to reason from first principles. Challenge every industry standard and focus on Speed and Safety.

• Build Data Center products behind 10 GW a year. Design and productize Data Center modules, switchgear, switchboards, busway, skids, E-Houses, and cooling systems that every Fluidstack building runs.

• Own the designs, IP, and test campaigns. Full in-house design authority on platforms Fluidstack owns outright, from the first one-line through type testing to factory acceptance.

Role Scope

• Own the clean-sheet design of Fluidstack’s UL 891 LV switchboard and UL 857 distribution busway platforms, from bus and bracing calculations to released production drawings.

• Release both platforms for production within 12 months, running design, NRTL listing, and short-circuit test campaigns in parallel.

• Lead a dedicated team of electrical and mechanical engineers, backed by assigned drafting, compliance, and test staff from shared engineering services.

• Drive the listing programs end to end: test plans, witness testing at the NRTL, follow-up service setup, and the certification file the factory builds against.

• Work with localization teams to define required design upgrades and particularities: interconnect points, protection interfaces, transport and rigging limits, and seismic anchorage.

• Work with third party authorized vendors to deliver a consistent product across Fluidstack’s data center fleet.

What We’re Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don’t fit this role exactly, tell us where you would .

• You’ve designed LV switchboards or busway at an OEM and personally carried a product through UL 891 or UL 857 listing, start to finish.

• You’ve run short-circuit withstand and temperature rise test campaigns and redesigned bus, bracing, or joints after a failed shot.

• You’ve made the contact system, joint, and plating decisions that determine whether a busway survives thousands of load cycles in service.

• You’ve designed for manufacturability at volume: sheet metal, plating, torque specifications, and assembly sequences a production line can hold shift after shift.

• You’ve led a product team through a compressed release schedule and held the line on test evidence when the schedule pushed back.

• You write ratings documentation and configuration rules clear enough that application engineers select the right product without calling you.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [e-mail] with your resume/CV, the role you’ve applied for, and the date you submitted your application– someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.