Network Engineer, Team Lead

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 176,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack, based in Austin, TX, is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI by deploying frontier compute at scale. We are hiring to lead the Network Engineering team, guiding design, deployment and operations across global backbones and accelerator fabrics.

You will own the network roadmap, hire and mentor engineers, and align cross-functional teams to move the network as one. We value ownership, velocity and principled thinking in a high-intensity environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the network engineering team: hiring, growth, priorities, and delivery across design and operations.
• Own the network roadmap from fabric generations to backbone expansion, sequenced to the build plan.
• Run the operating rhythm between design, deployment, and production so the network org moves as one.
• Build the team ahead of demand: networks at this scale need engineers the market barely produces.

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.

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 Network Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Build the networks the frontier of AI trains on. Fabrics for 100k+ accelerator clusters, backbones between gigawatt campuses, and every network in between.
• Run 10s to 100s of GWs of networks as one machine. Training fabrics for 100k+ accelerators, backbone, corp, and BMS/EPMS, one architecture across gigawatt campuses.
• Deliver a full site network in days, not quarters. Designs generated from source-of-truth models, devices turned up by ZTP, every link validated by machine. At this scale, manual is an outage.

Role Scope

• Lead the network engineering team: hiring, growth, priorities, and delivery across design and operations.
• Own the network roadmap from fabric generations to backbone expansion, sequenced to the build plan.
• Run the operating rhythm between design, deployment, and production so the network org moves as one.
• Build the team ahead of demand: networks at this scale need engineers 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 led network engineering organizations through rapid scale.
• You've hired network engineers in a market where everyone is hiring them.
• You balance roadmap work and operations without letting either starve.
• Engineers you've led ship faster because of how you run the team.
• Bonus: AI and HPC networking. Multi-site programs. Vendor relationship ownership. Automation-first organizations.

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.

Compensation Range: $176K - $221K