Fire Protection Engineering Lead, Capacity Delivery

FluidStack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking an experienced Fire Protection Engineer to lead portfolio-wide fire protection engineering for industrial and data‑center style facilities. You will own suppression, detection, and life safety system design from reference concepts through AHJ reviews, working across disciplines to deliver safe, code‑compliant projects.

Ideal candidates have proven success obtaining approvals via performance-based paths, familiarity with NFPA 13/72/75/855, and strong experience coordinating

Qualifications

• You've led fire protection engineering for industrial or mission critical facilities.
• You've gotten nonstandard designs approved through performance-based paths.
• You know NFPA 13, 72, 75, and 855 at the section level.
• AHJs take your calls and your word.
• Bonus: FPE PE license, clean agent and water mist systems, lithium‑ion storage protection, data center fire protection.

Responsibilities

• Own fire protection engineering across the portfolio: suppression, detection, and life safety from reference design through AHJ approval.
• Set the fire protection reference design for liquid‑cooled data halls and evolve it with code and AHJ feedback.
• Run AHJ strategy across jurisdictions so approvals land ahead of the schedule that needs them.
• Review fire protection designs and calculations as the authority the AHJ trusts.

Skills

Fire protection engineering

AHJ coordination

Performance-based design

NFPA knowledge

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

• 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 Capacity Delivery Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on:

• Engineer gigawatts from drawing to energized, in months not years. Capacity Delivery owns technical execution across every build: the drawings, the field questions, and the engineering calls that keep multiple concurrent gigawatt sites moving.
• Engineer data centers that go up in months, not years. At that pace rework is not an option: problems get caught on paper or they cost a data hall.
• Design it once, build it a hundred times. Every site's lessons roll into the reference design on the way to 50GW+, so each build starts ahead of the last.

Role Scope

• Own fire protection engineering across the portfolio: suppression, detection, and life safety from reference design through AHJ approval.
• Set the fire protection reference design for liquid‑cooled data halls and evolve it with code and AHJ feedback.
• Run AHJ strategy across jurisdictions so approvals land ahead of the schedule that needs them.
• Review fire protection designs and calculations as the authority the AHJ trusts.

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 led fire protection engineering for industrial or mission critical facilities.
• You've gotten nonstandard designs approved through performance‑based paths.
• You know NFPA 13, 72, 75, and 855 at the section level.
• AHJs take your calls and your word.
• Bonus: FPE PE license, clean agent and water mist systems, lithium‑ion storage protection, data center fire protection.

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.