Industrial Engineer: Lean Warehouse for Scale Data Centers

Fluidstack; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous PTO policy

Retirement plan

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a senior logistics engineer to design warehouse workflows and optimize throughput across multiple sites in the United States. You will build end-to-end processes for pick, pack, receiving, and RMA, while running time and motion studies to establish standard work.

You will model site layouts, balance throughput with space costs, and collaborate with WMS/IMS teams to ensure tooling matches real workflows. Equity and strong PTO are offered as part of the compensation package.

Qualifications

• Experience designing or redesigning warehouse layouts with measurable throughput or cost gains.
• Experience with time and motion studies and documenting standard work.
• Ability to model dock, rack, and staging capacity using data.
• Collaborating with software and systems teams to align processes with tools.

Responsibilities

• Design pick, pack, receiving, and RMA workflows for each site.
• Run time and motion studies to set standard work.
• Model layouts for new and existing sites balancing throughput and real estate.
• Create process documentation and standard work instructions.
• Coordinate with WMS/IMS teams to align tooling with physical workflow.

Skills

Warehouse design

Time and motion study

Process optimization

Lean Six Sigma

Industrial engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Industrial engineering degree

Tools

WMS

IMS

Layout modeling tools

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 Logistics Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Decide what happens next to every piece of material before it leaves the dock. Every part is staged onsite, an hour out, or twelve hours out, and getting that call wrong stalls a build or burns money on space nobody needed. You will build the disposition strategy that makes that call for every material category, at every site.

• Replace outsourced warehousing with a network we own. Fluidstack is exiting third-party logistics warehousing entirely and standing up its own facilities and processes in its place, at the pace the build requires.

• Build the systems from scratch instead of inheriting someone else's. No commercial platform anticipates a gigawatt-scale, multi-site build, so you will help build and integrate the warehouse, inventory, and transportation management systems that run it, wired together instead of stitched with workarounds.

Role Scope

• Design pick, pack, receiving, and RMA workflows for each site's warehouse layout, optimizing for travel distance, throughput, and dock-to-floor time.

• Run time and motion studies on warehouse and dock processes, and use the data to set the standard work each site trains against.

• Model rack, dock door, and staging layouts for new and existing sites, balancing throughput against real estate cost.

• Build the process documentation and standard work instructions that let a new site ramp to full productivity in weeks, not months.

• Partner with the WMS and IMS system build teams to make sure new tooling matches the physical workflow, not the other way around.

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 designed or re-designed a warehouse layout and can point to the throughput or cost improvement it produced.

• You've run a time and motion study and turned it into a standard work instruction that a new hire could follow on day one.

• You've modeled dock, rack, or staging capacity against real operational data, not rule-of-thumb assumptions.

• You've partnered with a systems team to make sure new software matched a real physical process instead of forcing the process to bend to the software.

• You get to a site, watch how work actually happens, and find the waste that nobody built a report to catch.

• Bonus: Lean Six Sigma or industrial engineering background. Experience in data center, manufacturing, or high-throughput distribution environments. Familiarity with warehouse simulation or layout modeling tools.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).

• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.

  • Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
    

    Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.

Physical Requirements

• Work in non-climate-controlled environments, including active construction areas, data halls, electrical and mechanical rooms, and outdoor spaces. Temperatures can be high or low, and conditions can be humid, loud or dusty.

• Lift, carry, push and pull up to 40 pounds on your own.

• Sit, stand, walk, kneel, bend and crouch for long periods, including full shifts on your feet.

• Wear the required personal protective equipment (PPE), such as hard hats, safety glasses, steel-toed boots, gloves and hearing protection, and follow site safety rules.

• Climb stairs and ladders, and move around equipment, cable trays and uneven surfaces.

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.

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