Facilities Production Team Lead

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 208,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Lead for the Data Center Operations Team to own the facilities production engineering work, hire and align priorities, and ensure on-call health as the fleet scales. You will connect site needs to engineering output, drive the operating rhythm with site operators, and coach engineers across the OT/IT boundary to meet aggressive performance goals.

We value extreme ownership, velocity, and first principles; this role offers high autonomy in a rapidly

Qualifications

• Managed engineering teams shipping into operational environments.
• Balanced roadmap work against interrupt-driven site support.
• Hired for rare hybrid skill sets and built people into them.
• Teams keep shipping when the pager is loud.
• Bonus: Facilities or industrial software, data center ops exposure, SRE practices, OT familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Lead the facilities production engineering team: hiring, priorities, delivery, and on-call health.
• Own the roadmap connecting site needs to engineering output, sequenced by fleet impact.
• Run the operating rhythm with site operators so the team builds what shifts actually need.
• Grow engineers across the OT/IT boundary, a skill set the market barely produces.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Hybrid skill sets

SRE practices

OT systems familiarity

Tools

Industrial software

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.

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,

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• 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.

The Data Center Operations Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Operate at the scale of a nation, not a building. The fleet you run will draw more power than some countries, on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs.
• Fly the plane while it's being built. Sites come online in pieces, and you keep the live ones running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
• Write the playbook, don't inherit it. No prior operations org has run at this speed and scale, so the standards you set become the standard.

Role Scope

• Lead the facilities production engineering team: hiring, priorities, delivery, and on-call health.
• Own the roadmap connecting site needs to engineering output, sequenced by fleet impact.
• Run the operating rhythm with site operators so the team builds what shifts actually need.
• Grow engineers across the OT/IT boundary, a skill set the market barely produces.

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 managed engineering teams shipping into operational environments.
• You've balanced roadmap work against interrupt-driven site support without letting either starve.
• You've hired for rare hybrid skill sets and built people into them when the market had none.
• Your teams keep shipping when the pager is loud.
• Bonus: Facilities or industrial software. Data center operations exposure. SRE practices. OT systems familiarity.

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.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [e-mail] with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.

Compensation Range: $208K - $269K