Compute R&D Tech Lead: Hardware Validation & Automation

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 261,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a senior hardware validation leader to drive the qualification program for frontier compute hardware. You will define test methods, own tough platforms, and drive automation to scale lab throughput.

You will mentor engineers, diagnose root causes, and collaborate with vendors to ensure readiness across new silicon and systems in a fast-paced AI compute environment.

Qualifications

• Senior technical voice in hardware validation or systems engineering.
• Qualified early hardware, engineering samples, or first-run systems, and shipped the findings.
• Built test automation others still use.
• Your failure analyses go to root cause, not to plausible.
• You mentor engineers up the debugging stack.
• Bonus: Accelerator architecture depth, signal and power integrity, large-scale burn-in design, vendor engineering relationships.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for compute qualification: methods, tooling, and the standards the lab holds hardware to.
• Own the hardest qualifications yourself: first silicon, new platforms, and the failures nobody can explain.
• Build the automation: test harnesses and data pipelines that multiply the lab's throughput.
• Represent Labs to vendors and the fleet: the technical voice on what’s ready and what isn’t.

Skills

Hardware validation

Systems engineering

Test automation

Root-cause analysis

Mentoring

Vendor relations

Job description

Fluidstack is seeking a senior hardware validation leader to drive the qualification program for frontier compute hardware. You will define test methods, own tough platforms, and drive automation to scale lab throughput.

You will mentor engineers, diagnose root causes, and collaborate with vendors to ensure readiness across new silicon and systems in a fast-paced AI compute environment.