Modular Data Center Cost Estimator

Fluidstack; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack, a Los Angeles-based AI infrastructure company, is seeking a Data Center Cost Estimator to lead the cost model for modular data centers and drive designs from concept through bid.

You will price design alternatives, interrogate vendor quotes, and reconcile estimates with actuals, delivering tight, actionable numbers that help win multi-GW projects while advancing sustainable, scalable compute infrastructure.

Qualifications

• You've personally estimated mechanical, electrical, or modular construction scopes: takeoffs, unit pricing, vendor pricing, and a final number you stood behind when the project was won or lost.
• You've built cost models other people could run without you in the room, and they held up.
• You've reconciled estimate versus actual and changed your assumptions when the data said you were wrong.
• You've priced options for engineers in the middle of a design decision, delivering a usable number in hours when the decision couldn't wait.
• You know where estimates fail (scope gaps, labor productivity, escalation, freight) and you've caught those failures before they priced a bid.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the cost model for the modular data center product, covering every assembly across structural, mechanical, electrical, and controls scopes.
• Produce estimates at every design release so the program always knows what the product costs before it commits to build.
• Price design alternatives in days, giving engineers cost facts on trade-offs like cooling configuration, electrical distribution, and skid versus site-built scope.
• Interrogate vendor quotes line by line with supply chain, and build should-cost models for the equipment categories that dominate unit cost.
• Reconcile estimates against actuals after each build and fold the variance back into the model, so the next estimate is tighter than the last.

Job description

Fluidstack, a Los Angeles-based AI infrastructure company, is seeking a Data Center Cost Estimator to lead the cost model for modular data centers and drive designs from concept through bid.

You will price design alternatives, interrogate vendor quotes, and reconcile estimates with actuals, delivering tight, actionable numbers that help win multi-GW projects while advancing sustainable, scalable compute infrastructure.