People Relations

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building frontier compute infrastructure and expanding a dedicated People Team to scale rapidly. The role focuses on owning employee relations, conducting investigations, and coaching managers to maintain a fair, compliant workplace as the company grows.

Ideal candidates will have strong experience with ER at growing companies, proven documentation that withstands legal review, and a knack for identifying systemic patterns to improve policies and processes.

Qualifications

• You've owned employee relations at a growing company and run investigations solo.
• Your documentation has survived legal scrutiny.
• You deliver hard messages with care and keep trust on both sides.
• You spot the pattern behind repeat cases and act on it.
• Bonus: Employment law background. Multi-state experience. Field or operations workforce ER. Manager training design.

Responsibilities

• Own employee relations across the company: investigations, conflict resolution, and policy questions handled fast and fairly.
• Run investigations end to end with documentation that stands up to legal review.
• Coach managers through performance and conduct issues before they escalated.
• Track ER patterns and fix the root cause, whether it is a policy, a manager, or a process.

Skills

Employee relations

Investigations

Policy governance

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

• 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 People Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Build the people function from scratch, fast enough to keep up with 10x growth. We grew headcount 10x in the last year and we're not slowing down. You'll build the systems, programs, and team from nothing, and make them work before we outgrow them.

• Reinvent people operations around AI. Doing this by hand doesn't scale to a workforce growing this fast on a team this lean. You'll put AI at the core of how the function runs, so a small team supports many times its number.

• Own the culture and comms as the company scales. When a company scales this quickly, staying connected and aligned doesn't happen on its own. You'll own the internal comms, events, and rhythm that keep a multi-site team that's growing fast bound to a shared culture.

Role Scope

• Own employee relations across the company: investigations, conflict resolution, and policy questions handled fast and fairly.

• Run investigations end to end with documentation that stands up to legal review.

• Coach managers through performance and conduct issues before they escalated.

• Track ER patterns and fix the root cause, whether it is a policy, a manager, or a process.

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 owned employee relations at a growing company and run investigations solo.

• Your documentation has survived legal scrutiny.

• You deliver hard messages with care and keep trust on both sides.

• You spot the pattern behind repeat cases and act on it.

• Bonus: Employment law background. Multi-state experience. Field or operations workforce ER. Manager training design.

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.