Payroll Analyst

Fluidstack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in San Francisco seeks a Payroll professional to own multi-state payroll for US entities, including hourly and shift workers. You will ensure timely payroll processing and compliance.

You will reconcile payroll cycles, handle registrations and filings in new states, and automate inputs from time data, benefits, and equity events. The role partners with People and Finance, with a focus on accuracy, confidentiality, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• You've run multi-state payroll end to end at a growing company.
• You've stood up payroll in new states, from registration through first filing.
• Your reconciliations tie every cycle, and off-cycles don't rattle you.
• You resolve agency notices to closed, not to filed-away.
• You partner with People and Finance and keep confidences absolutely.
• Bonus: Rippling or equivalent. Hourly and shift workforces. Equity payroll events. Payroll GL automation.

Responsibilities

• Run payroll across US entities and states: salaried, hourly, and 24/7 multi-site workforce.
• Own the payroll close: reconciliations, accruals, and tie-out to the general ledger each cycle.
• Handle registrations, filings, and notices across new states as sites come online.
• Automate inputs: time data, benefits, and equity events flowing in clean.

Skills

Multi-state payroll

Payroll automation

Regulatory filings

Confidentiality

Collaboration with People & Finance

Tools

NetSuite

Zip

Shareworks

Pigment

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

• 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 Accounting Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Build the financial infrastructure from the ground up (NetSuite, Zip, Shareworks, Pigment).
• Stand up a lean finance org for the fastest-growing data center hyperscaler.
• Own the full stack from vendor invoice to cap table.

Role Scope

• Run payroll across US entities and states: salaried, hourly, and everything a 24/7 multi‑site workforce generates.
• Own the payroll close: reconciliations, accruals, and the tie‑out to the general ledger every cycle.
• Handle registrations, filings, and notices across new states as sites come online.
• Automate the inputs: time data, benefits, and equity events flowing in clean.

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 run multi‑state payroll end to end at a growing company.
• You've stood up payroll in new states, from registration through first filing.
• Your reconciliations tie every cycle, and off‑cycles don't rattle you.
• You resolve agency notices to closed, not to filed‑away.
• You partner with People and Finance and keep confidences absolutely.
• Bonus: Rippling or equivalent. Hourly and shift workforces. Equity payroll events. Payroll GL automation.

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.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [e-mail] with your resume/CV, the role you’ve applied for, and the date you submitted your application— someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.