Resident Electrical Engineer, Modular R&D

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack seeks a hands-on electrical systems engineer to own power distribution, grounding, and controls on the modular data center line. You will work on the Phoenix floor daily, quickly addressing wiring and termination issues and updating drawings to reflect changes on the line.

Ideal candidates bring experience with production launches, on-site problem solving, and strong knowledge of drawing control. PE license or NEC/UL knowledge is a plus.

Qualifications

• You've engineered electrical systems hands-on for complex physical products, modular construction, or critical facilities.
• You've worked on a shop floor or production line, and dispositioning a nonconformance in the moment is familiar work, not an escalation.
• You've supported production launches of your own designs and stayed with them until the line ran clean.
• Your drawings build clean: fabricators and electricians rarely call, and when they do, you fix the drawing, not just the unit.
• You iterate fast without losing configuration control: every floor fix lands in the released drawing set, not in tribal knowledge.
• You're equally credible in a design review and at the station with a multimeter, and the techs on the line trust your dispositions.
• Bonus: PE license, working knowledge of NEC and UL 508A panel standards, data center power distribution experience, panel checkout and QC background, or strong DFM instincts

Responsibilities

• Own the electrical systems of the modular product on the line: power distribution, grounding, and controls integration, from released drawings through rate production.
• Live on the Phoenix manufacturing floor: walk the line daily, catch wiring and termination issues at the station where they happen, and disposition them on the spot
• Answer electrical RFIs same-day from the floor, then engineer the fix into the next revision so the same question never comes up twice
• Run first-article reviews and electrical checkout in person as units come down the line, with findings documented rigorously enough to drive design and process change
• Close the loop to design: feed what the line learns back into one-lines, panel schedules, and the BOM, keeping the drawing set the single source of truth

Skills

Electrical systems design

Shop floor troubleshooting

Production launches

Drawing accuracy & revision control

On-site problem solving

Multimeter &现场测试

DFM mentality / NEC knowledge

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.

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 Modular Team

The Modular team is building factory-produced modular data centers, taking them from released drawings to rate production on our Phoenix manufacturing line.

Examples of key problems the team is working on:

• Bring first-of-a-kind modular data center designs from engineering release to repeatable rate production on the factory line




• Engineer power distribution, grounding, and controls integration that builds clean at the station and holds up in the field




• Run first-article inspections and electrical checkout so the first unit off the line and the hundredth meet the same bar




• Close the loop between the floor and the drawing set, so every issue caught at a station is engineered out of the next revision

Role Scope

• Own the electrical systems of the modular product on the line: power distribution, grounding, and controls integration, from released drawings through rate production




• Live on the Phoenix manufacturing floor: walk the line daily, catch wiring and termination issues at the station where they happen, and disposition them on the spot




• Answer electrical RFIs same-day from the floor, then engineer the fix into the next revision so the same question never comes up twice




• Run first-article reviews and electrical checkout in person as units come down the line, with findings documented rigorously enough to drive design and process change




• Close the loop to design: feed what the line learns back into one-lines, panel schedules, and the BOM, keeping the drawing set the single source of truth

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 engineered electrical systems hands-on for complex physical products, modular construction, or critical facilities




• You've worked on a shop floor or production line, and dispositioning a nonconformance in the moment is familiar work, not an escalation




• You've supported production launches of your own designs and stayed with them until the line ran clean




• Your drawings build clean: fabricators and electricians rarely call, and when they do, you fix the drawing, not just the unit




• You iterate fast without losing configuration control: every floor fix lands in the released drawing set, not in tribal knowledge




• You're equally credible in a design review and at the station with a multimeter, and the techs on the line trust your dispositions




• Bonus: PE license, working knowledge of NEC and UL 508A panel standards, data center power distribution experience, panel checkout and QC background, or strong DFM instincts

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.

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