Compute Engineer, R&D

Fluidstack; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 202,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a hands-on hardware specialist in Los Angeles to validate GPUs, servers, and racks for AI infrastructure. You will execute rigorous benchmarks and help ensure reliability across real workloads.

Ideal candidates root-cause silicon and firmware issues, script tests for automation, and collaborate with vendors to ship fixes. Compensation ranges from $202K to $335K annually.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with server and GPU hardware validation.
• Strong benchmarking discipline with reproducible methods.
• Ability to root-cause hardware and firmware failures.
• Scripting to automate tests and data collection.
• Experience working with hardware vendors to ship fixes.

Responsibilities

• Qualify next-generation compute (GPUs, servers, racks) before fleet deployment.
• Build and run benchmark suites for performance, power, and thermals.
• Break things on purpose to expose weaknesses and improve reliability.
• Write qualification reports documenting configs, firmware, and issues.

Skills

Server hardware

GPU systems

Benchmarking

Root-cause debugging

Scripting

Vendor liaison

Tools

Linux

Firmware debugging tools

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

• 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 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.

Compensation Range: $202K - $335K