Production Engineer, Compute Team Lead

Fluidstack; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack seeks a proven leader to run the Data Center Operations team. You will oversee tens of thousands of GPUs serving customers and own fleet availability.

We expect you to define SLOs, build tooling, automate node lifecycle, health checks, remediation, and return-to-service processes, all with minimal manual touch. You will also establish a robust on-call and escalation model to keep the team sharp.

Responsibilities

• Lead the compute production engineering team keeping tens of thousands of GPUs serving customers.
• Own fleet availability for compute: define the SLOs, build the tooling, and move the number.
• Build automation for the node lifecycle, provisioning, health checks, remediation, return to service, without human touch.
• Set the on-call and escalation model that keeps response sharp without burning the team out.

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 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 Data Center Operations Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Operate at the scale of a nation, not a building. The fleet you run will draw more power than some countries, on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs.
• Fly the plane while it's being built. Sites come online in pieces, and you keep the live ones running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
• Write the playbook, don't inherit it. No prior operations org has run at this speed and scale, so the standards you set become the standard.

Role Scope

• Lead the compute production engineering team keeping tens of thousands of GPUs serving customers.
• Own fleet availability for compute: define the SLOs, build the tooling, and move the number.
• Build automation for the node lifecycle, provisioning, health checks, remediation, return to service, without human touch.
• Set the on-call and escalation model that keeps response sharp without burning the team out.

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 SRE or production engineering teams running large fleets.
• You've moved an availability number and can explain exactly how.
• You've shipped automated remediation that retired a runbook.
• You hire and grow strong engineers, and they say so.
• Bonus: GPU or HPC fleets. Kubernetes or Slurm. Hardware failure analytics. Customer-facing reliability.

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.

Compensation Range: $225K - $284K