Fluidstack Labs Lead

Fluidstack; Glendale (AZ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack seeks a senior leader to head Fluidstack Labs, guiding hardware qualification for next-gen compute and rack systems. You will set testing standards, align with sourcing, and drive lab operations to keep pace with vendor roadmaps.

You’ll own deploy-or-not decisions with real budget impact, lead cross-functional teams, and publish actionable results that influence company strategy. Exceptional GPU/accelerator experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Led hardware qualification, systems engineering, or lab teams for compute or infrastructure.
• Owned deploy-or-not decisions with real budget impact.
• Built and ran lab environments with process discipline.
• Engaged vendors as peers on roadmaps and escalations.
• Published actionable results for company-wide use.
• Bonus: experience with GPU/accelerator systems and hyperscale hardware.

Responsibilities

• Lead Fluidstack Labs and qualification of next-gen compute, network, and rack hardware.
• Own the qualification roadmap, testing criteria, and timelines with sourcing and deployment.
• Operate the lab, managing environments and throughput to meet vendor roadmaps.
• Decide on fleet standards, backed by your team's data and analysis.

Skills

Hardware qualification leadership

Systems engineering leadership

Lab operations leadership

Vendor relationships

Results-driven reporting

GPU/accelerator systems

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.

Role Scope

• Lead Fluidstack Labs: the team qualifying next-generation compute, network, and rack hardware ahead of fleet deployment.

• Own the qualification roadmap: what gets tested, to what bar, on what timeline, synced with sourcing and deployment plans.

• Run the lab as an operation: environments, equipment, and throughput that keep pace with vendor roadmaps.

• Make the calls: what the fleet standardizes on, backed by your team's data.

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 hardware qualification, systems engineering, or lab teams for compute or infrastructure.

• You've owned deploy-or-not decisions with real money behind them.

• You've stood up lab environments and the process discipline to run them.

• You engage vendors as a peer: roadmaps, escalations, and early access.

• You publish results the whole company can act on.

• Bonus: GPU and accelerator systems. NPI processes. Failure analysis programs. Hyperscale hardware.

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.