Chief Engineer, MV Switchgear

Fluidstack; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to own the clean-sheet design of its metal-clad MV switchgear platform and drive end-to-end development. You will lead a team, ensure production-readiness, and manage IEEE test campaigns in parallel to validate performance.

The role requires experience with high-power lab testing, insulation decisions, and integration of third-party breakers within a robust enclosure, pushing the frontier of data-center infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Designed metal-clad MV switchgear and/or GIS as the accountable engineer.
• Led a full type-test campaign and redesign after a failure (internal arc/short-circuit).
• Insulation coordination, bus bracing, creepage/clearance decisions.
• Integrated third-party breaker elements into an enclosure and end-to-end design ownership.
• Led a product team from concept to production release with design freeze.

Responsibilities

• Own the clean-sheet design of Fluidstack's metal-clad MV switchgear platform and drive end-to-end development.
• Deliver production-released, fully type-tested lineups and run IEEE 37.20.2 and 37.09 campaigns in parallel.
• Lead a dedicated team of engineers for design, testing and compliance.
• Execute the type-test campaign at high-power labs, handling short-circuit tests and temperature rise.
• Define the rating ladder, protection, IED integration and interlock architecture for MV distribution across GW-scale buildings.

Skills

Metal-clad MV switchgear design

GIS switchgear experience

Type-test campaigns

Insulation coordination

Bus bracing and creepage

Third-party breaker integration

Lead cross-functional product team

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.

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.

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.

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 10s of 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 wholly-owned metal-clad MV switchgear platform, built around a purchased, type-tested vacuum breaker element.
• Deliver a production-released, fully type-tested lineup running design and the IEEE C37.20.2 and C37.09 test campaigns in parallel.
• Lead a dedicated team of engineers to develop the design, testing and compliance effort.
• Run the type-test campaign at high-power laboratories, covering short-circuit, internal arc, BIL, and temperature rise, and own every redesign loop as needed.
• Define the platform's ratings ladder, protection and IED integration, and racking and interlock architecture so one design covers MV distribution across 10s of GW of buildings a year.

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 metal-clad MV switchgear and/or GIS switchgear at an OEM as the accountable engineer.
• You've taken a switchgear design through a full type-test campaign at a high-power lab and led the redesign after a failed internal arc or short-circuit shot.
• You've made the insulation coordination, bus bracing, and creepage and clearance decisions.
• You've integrated third-party breaker elements or operating mechanisms into an enclosure and secondary design you owned end to end.
• You've led a product team from first concept to production release and held the design freeze against late-arriving change requests.

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.

Compensation Range: $260K - $310K