Civil Engineer, Capacity Delivery

Fluidstack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a Civil Engineering leader to head the Data Center Design Team. You will own the civil workstream across multiple site developments, coordinating with structural, MEP, fiber, and architectural teams to deliver complex campuses.

You will drive due diligence, grading strategies, earthwork balance, and permitting across jurisdictions, focusing on scalable, efficient data center campuses. A PE license is a plus and experience with large-scale projects is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience leading civil engineering on large-scale site development.
• Ability to manage external civil consultants and IFC deliverables.
• Strong knowledge of grading, earthwork, stormwater, utilities, and permitting.
• Familiarity with NPDES, floodplain (FEMA CLOMR/LOMR) permitting and geotechnical coordination.

Responsibilities

• Own the civil engineering workstream across multi-site data center developments.
• Lead civil due diligence for greenfield and conversion sites: topography, drainage, utilities, soils.
• Develop and maintain design basis, master specs, and standard drawings; plan earthwork and earthmoving.
• Structure phased delivery with early work packages to accelerate critical path.
• Lead permitting strategy across jurisdictions and coordinate with other teams.

Skills

Civil engineering

Site development

External civil consultants management

Grading & earthwork

NPDES & floodplain permitting

Geotechnical coordination

AutoCAD Civil 3D

GIS

PE license (bonus)

Tools

AutoCAD Civil 3D

GIS

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.
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. If that is you,
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 Data Center Design Team
Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Lead the design, development, and execution of 10s to 100s of GWs of data centers this decade.
• Drive the next generation of liquid cooling and electrical distribution systems.
• Develop and scale first-of-a-kind modular data centers.
• Influence behind-the-meter designs and planning for multi-GW campuses.
  

Role Scope

• Own the civil engineering workstream across a multi-site development portfolio from site screening through permitting and construction completion.
• Lead civil due diligence for greenfield and conversion sites: topography, drainage, utilities, soils, floodplain, and environmental constraints, flagging fatal flaws and cost risks during site selection.
• Develop and maintain the civil basis of design, master specs, and standard drawings, and establish grading strategies, earthwork balance, and cut/fill sequences for large campus developments.
• Structure phased delivery with early work packages (mass grading, site utilities, enablement) to accelerate the critical path.
• Lead civil permitting strategy across jurisdictions: land disturbance, NPDES/SWPPP, floodplain (CLOMR/LOMR), environmental, and utility permits.
• Manage external civil consultants from schematic through IFC and coordinate civil scope with structural, MEP, fiber, and architectural teams.
  

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,

• You've owned civil engineering on large-scale site development (data centers, industrial, logistics, or power infrastructure), ideally owner/developer-side.
• You've directed external civil consultants and managed design deliverable quality through IFC.
• You know grading, earthwork, stormwater, and site utility design cold, plus NPDES and floodplain (FEMA/CLOMR/LOMR) permitting.
• You've identified civil fatal flaws and quantified cost risk during site selection, not just executed design after the site was chosen.
• You've coordinated geotechnical investigations and interpreted boring programs into design actions.
• Bonus: PE license. Hyperscale or energy infrastructure development. Expansive clay, karst, or high water table conditions. MISO/utility interconnection civil coordination. AutoCAD Civil 3D and GIS.
  

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.
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Compensation Range: $164K - $230K