Design Release Engineer Fluidstack · Austin · DevOps & Release $208,000–$263,000 7w ago

Devopsroles; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a Release & Configuration Manager to own end-to-end release processes for modular, serialized data center hardware. You will manage ECOs, maintain BOM integrity, and coordinate between design, manufacturing, and supply chain to ensure accurate, timely releases.

You will work with Arena, Teamcenter, Windchill and ERP/MES systems to keep data aligned as products scale. A strong bias for first-principles thinking and hands-on ownership is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience owning release or configuration management for manufactured hardware.
• Ability to disposition ECOs across live production and in-build units.
• As-built, as-designed, and as-maintained data must stay in sync.
• Attention to detail to prevent immature releases from reaching floor.

Responsibilities

• Own the release process from engineering to production with proper revision control.
• Manage ECOs/ECNs and maintain history across inventory and orders.
• Keep BOM integrity and PLM-ERP/MES synchronization.
• Ensure release readiness with checks, tolerances, and DFMs.
• Communicate release impacts across design, supply chain, quality and production.

Skills

Release management

Configuration management

As-built vs as-designed

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Arena

Teamcenter

Windchill

NetSuite / SAP

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.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

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 Modular Team

The Modular team designs and builds factory-produced, serialized data center modules that ship as manufactured products, not construction projects.

Examples of key problems the team is working on:

• Turn first-of-a-kind modular data center designs into repeatable, serialized production builds without losing engineering intent between revisions.

• Keep design iteration fast while units at different build states move through the fab floor, in inventory, and at site simultaneously.

• Integrate power, cooling, and structural subsystems into a single releasable product definition that manufacturing, supply chain, and quality can all build against.

• Close the loop between as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained configurations so field units can be serviced and upgraded against accurate records.

Role Scope

• Own the release process from engineering to production: drawings, BOMs, and specs complete, approved, and released to manufacturing at the right revision, every time.

• Run configuration and change management: administer ECOs and ECNs, control revision history, and disposition changes across in-flight units, inventory, and supplier orders with serialized modules at different build states.

• Keep BOM integrity across systems: engineering and manufacturing BOMs accurate, the PLM system of record syncing cleanly to ERP and MES, and discrepancies between as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained resolved rather than logged.

• Gate release readiness: drawing checks, tolerance and spec completeness, long-lead procurement flags, and DFM feedback from the fab floor confirmed incorporated before anything releases.

• Drive release communication across design, supply chain, quality, and production: publish release schedules and change impacts so procurement and the shop floor never build to stale revisions.

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 owned release or configuration management for manufactured hardware: modules, vehicles, machinery, or similar serialized products.

• You’ve administered ECOs across live production and know how to disposition a change across units already in build, sitting in inventory, and already shipped, including deciding effectivity and living with the consequences.

• Your BOMs reconcile: as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained stay in sync because you keep them that way, not because nobody has checked.

• You catch immature releases before the floor does: incomplete drawings, missing tolerances, and unspecified requirements don't get past you.

• You’ve untangled an as-designed vs. as-built mess at a company scaling faster than its release discipline, and you know exactly what breaks when that discipline is missing.

• You work across disciplines instead of throwing problems over walls: design, supply chain, quality, and production all trust your revision state because you keep them informed before it matters.

• Bonus: hands-on with PLM platforms (Arena, Teamcenter, Windchill), ERP and MES integration (NetSuite, SAP, or similar), drawing standards (ASME Y14.5), or a manufacturing or quality engineering background.

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.