Compute Engineer, R&D

Linuxcareers; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

FluidStack is building civilization-scale compute infrastructure for AI. The Compute Engineer, R&D role focuses on qualifying next-generation GPUs, servers, and racks before deployment to the fleet, ensuring they meet performance, power, and thermal standards.

The candidate will build benchmarks, perform stress tests, and write reports to standardize fleet configurations. Linux and hardware vendors collaboration are part of the daily workflow, with a focus on reproducible methods and automation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience qualifying, validating, or debugging server or GPU systems.
• Rigorous benchmarking methodology with reproducible methods and controlled variables.
• Ability to root-cause hardware failures across silicon, firmware, and system levels.
• Scripting and automation skills to drive work programmatically rather than via checklists.
• Experience working with hardware vendors on bug fixes and patches.

Responsibilities

• Qualify and validate GPUs, servers, and racks before fleet deployment.
• Build and run benchmark suites to characterize performance, power, and thermal behavior.
• Conduct stress testing, fault injection, and endurance runs to uncover weaknesses.
• Root-cause hardware failures across silicon, firmware, and system levels.
• Write qualification reports documenting configurations, firmware, and issues.

Skills

Hardware qualification

Benchmarking methodology

Root-cause analysis

Scripting & automation

Vendor collaboration

Tools

GPU/Server validation tooling

Linux systems depth

Job description

FluidStack is building civilization-scale compute infrastructure for AI by acquiring power, designing data centers, and operating them. This Compute Engineer, R&D role focuses on qualifying next-generation compute hardware — GPUs, servers, and racks — before deployment to the fleet, ensuring they meet performance, power, and thermal standards.

What You'll Do

• Qualify and validate next-generation GPUs, servers, and racks against deployment standards before fleet deployment
• Build and run benchmark suites to characterize performance, power, and thermal behavior under real workloads
• Conduct stress testing, fault injection, and endurance runs to identify hardware weaknesses early
• Root-cause hardware failures across silicon, firmware, and system levels
• Write qualification reports documenting configurations, firmware, and known issues that become fleet standards

What You Need

• Hands-on experience qualifying, validating, or debugging server or GPU systems
• Rigorous benchmarking methodology with reproducible methods and controlled variables
• Ability to root-cause hardware failures across silicon, firmware, and system levels
• Scripting and automation skills to drive work programmatically rather than via checklists
• Experience working with hardware vendors on bug fixes and getting patches shipped

Nice to Have

• NVIDIA or AMD accelerator platform experience
• BMC and firmware depth
• Thermal and power characterization expertise
• Linux systems depth