R&D Compute Engineer for Frontier AI Infra

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a hardware qualification role focused on GPUs, servers, and racks. You will build and run benchmarks, stress tests, and qualification reports to define fleet standards.

Ideal candidates bring hands-on server/GPU experience, strong benchmarking and automation skills, and the ability to root-cause failures across silicon and firmware. Fluidstack offers an equity-friendly environment and rapid growth in frontier compute.

Qualifications

• You've qualified, validated, or debugged server or GPU systems hands-on.
• You benchmark rigorously: reproducible methods, controlled variables, honest numbers.
• You've root-caused hardware failures across silicon, firmware, and system levels.

Responsibilities

• Qualify next-generation compute: GPUs, servers, and racks tested against the deployment standard before the fleet sees them.
• Build and run the benchmark suites: performance, power, and thermals characterized under real workloads.
• Break things on purpose: stress, fault injection, and endurance runs that find the weaknesses early.
• Write the qualification reports that become fleet standards: configs, firmware, and known issues documented.

Skills

Hands-on hardware testing

Benchmarking

Automation scripting

Root-cause analysis

Vendor coordination

Tools

BMC

Firmware

Linux

Job description

Fluidstack is seeking a hardware qualification role focused on GPUs, servers, and racks. You will build and run benchmarks, stress tests, and qualification reports to define fleet standards.

Ideal candidates bring hands-on server/GPU experience, strong benchmarking and automation skills, and the ability to root-cause failures across silicon and firmware. Fluidstack offers an equity-friendly environment and rapid growth in frontier compute.