Plumbing Engineer, R&D

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Fluidstack in Austin is seeking a Senior Mechanical/Plumbing Design Engineer to own the design of domestic water, process and make-up water systems for data center buildings and modular datasets. You will drive hydraulic calculations, equipment sizing, and specifications, ensuring code compliance across jurisdictions.

Collaborating with cooling and controls teams, you will help deliver integrated, scalable liquid-cooled infrastructure for frontier compute.

Formación

• 5+ years of plumbing or piping design for industrial facilities.
• Experience taking projects through construction documents and commissioning.
• Fluent with IPC/UPC/IMC and local amendments.

Responsabilidades

• Own plumbing design for data center buildings and prefabricated modules.
• Perform hydraulic calculations, select pumps and valves, write specifications.
• Ensure designs meet codes and permit requirements.
• Collaborate with cooling, water-quality, and controls teams to integrate systems.
• Review contractor submittals and support commissioning.

Conocimientos

Piping design

Hydraulic calculations

Code compliance

Contract submittals review

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Herramientas

Revit

AutoCAD MEP

Descripción del empleo

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 Mechanical Engineering Team

You’ll join the mechanical engineers in Fluidstack's infrastructure R&D group, who design the cooling, water, and fire systems inside gigawatt-scale AI data centers as repeatable products rather than one-off site designs. Liquid-cooled compute makes water a primary utility: make-up water, treatment, condenser and process loops, and drainage all have to be sized, specified, and standardized so the same design ships to every site.

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Standardizing the domestic, process, and make-up water systems that feed liquid cooling plants so they can be ordered as kits and installed in prefabricated modules.

• Sizing water supply, storage, and drainage for cooling loads that swing faster than conventional plumbing design assumes.

• Coordinating water treatment, backflow protection, and chemical dosing with the controls and water-quality engineers who operate the loops.

• Turning field and commissioning findings into design changes that reach the next site.

Role Scope

• Own the plumbing design. Design domestic water, process and make-up water, condenser water piping, drainage, and stormwater systems for data center buildings and prefabricated modules, from concept through construction documents.

• Size and specify. Run hydraulic calculations, select pumps, valves, backflow preventers, water heaters, and storage, and write the specifications vendors and contractors build to.

• Hold the codes. Keep designs compliant with plumbing, mechanical, and health codes across the jurisdictions Fluidstack builds in, and manage the permit and inspection questions that come back.

• Integrate with cooling. Work with the mechanical, water-quality, and controls engineers so make-up water, treatment, and blowdown are designed as one system with the cooling plant.

• Support the build. Review contractor submittals and shop drawings, answer RFIs, and walk installations through commissioning.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of plumbing or piping design engineering on industrial, mission-critical, or large commercial facilities, with at least one project taken through construction documents and commissioning.

• Working knowledge of the IPC or UPC, IMC, and local amendments, and of how to get a design through permit review.

• Hands-on with hydraulic calculations, pump and pipe sizing, backflow protection, and water storage design.

• Fluency in Revit or AutoCAD MEP and a hydraulic modeling tool.

• You have reviewed contractor submittals and answered RFIs, and you know which deviations matter.

• You write specifications a contractor can bid without a meeting.

• Bonus: Professional Engineer license or CPD certification. Data center or liquid-cooling plant experience. Water treatment or industrial process piping background.

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.