Compute Engineer, R&D

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

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a hardware qualification role focused on GPUs, servers, and racks. You will build and run benchmarks, stress tests, and qualification reports to define fleet standards.

Ideal candidates bring hands-on server/GPU experience, strong benchmarking and automation skills, and the ability to root-cause failures across silicon and firmware. Fluidstack offers an equity-friendly environment and rapid growth in frontier compute.

Qualifications

• You've qualified, validated, or debugged server or GPU systems hands-on.
• You benchmark rigorously: reproducible methods, controlled variables, honest numbers.
• You've root-caused hardware failures across silicon, firmware, and system levels.

Responsibilities

• Qualify next-generation compute: GPUs, servers, and racks tested against the deployment standard before the fleet sees them.
• Build and run the benchmark suites: performance, power, and thermals characterized under real workloads.
• Break things on purpose: stress, fault injection, and endurance runs that find the weaknesses early.
• Write the qualification reports that become fleet standards: configs, firmware, and known issues documented.

Skills

Hands-on hardware testing

Benchmarking

Automation scripting

Root-cause analysis

Vendor coordination

Tools

BMC

Firmware

Linux

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.

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.

Role Scope

• Qualify next-generation compute: GPUs, servers, and racks tested against the deployment standard before the fleet sees them.
• Build and run the benchmark suites: performance, power, and thermals characterized under real workloads.
• Break things on purpose: stress, fault injection, and endurance runs that find the weaknesses early.
• Write the qualification reports that become fleet standards: configs, firmware, and known issues documented.

What We're Looking For

• You've qualified, validated, or debugged server or GPU systems hands-on.
• You benchmark rigorously: reproducible methods, controlled variables, honest numbers.
• You've root-caused hardware failures across silicon, firmware, and system levels.
• You script your work: automation over checklists.
• You've worked with vendors on bugs and gotten fixes shipped.
• Bonus: NVIDIA or AMD accelerator platforms. BMC and firmware depth. Thermal and power characterization. Linux systems depth.

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.