Facilities & Capital Projects, Senior Manager

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 304,000 - 354,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, delivering capital projects across offices, labs, and manufacturing facilities. The role requires end-to-end ownership from scoping and budgeting through construction and occupancy, with experience managing facilities for a fast-growing, multi-site company.

You will negotiate with general contractors, vendors, and landlords, build capital budgets, and ensure sites open with consistent quality standards.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering end-to-end capital projects from scope to occupancy.
• Proven ability to manage facilities for a fast-growing, multi-site company.
• Strong negotiation skills with general contractors, vendors, and landlords.
• Ability to build and track capital budgets across active projects.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of capital projects across Fluidstack offices, labs, and facilities from scoping and budget through construction and handover.
• Manage facilities portfolio across multiple sites, ensuring safety, reliability, and headcount growth readiness.
• Negotiate contracts with general contractors, vendors, and landlords for tenant improvements and expansions on tight timelines.
• Develop and maintain capital budgets and forecasts, tracking spend against forecast for all active builds.
• Establish facilities standards and vendor playbooks to enable rapid opening of new sites.

Skills

Capital projects

Facilities management

Budgeting

Contract negotiation

Vendor management

Multi-site operations

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. 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.

Role Scope

• Own the delivery of capital projects across Fluidstack's offices, labs, and manufacturing facilities, from scoping and budget through construction and handover.
• Manage the facilities portfolio for a fast‑scaling multi‑site company, keeping every location operational, safe, and ahead of headcount growth.
• Negotiate and manage general contractors, vendors, and landlords for tenant improvements, buildouts, and facility expansions on tight timelines.
• Build the capital budgets and plans for facilities projects and hold them, tracking spend against forecast across every active build.
• Stand up the facilities standards, systems, and vendor playbooks that let a new site open with the same quality bar as the last.

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 delivered capital projects and facility buildouts end to end, from budget and scope through construction and occupancy.
• You’ve managed facilities for a multi‑site company that was growing fast, and kept ahead of it instead of chasing it.
• You’ve negotiated and held general contractors, vendors, and landlords to scope, cost, and schedule.
• You build a capital budget and hold it, and you know where the money is across every active project without having to go dig for it.
• You’ve opened new sites or expanded existing ones and set the standards that made the next one easier.
• You catch the facility problem, a lease clause, a long‑lead item, a code issue, before it becomes a delay or a cost overrun.
• Bonus: Manufacturing or lab facilities. Tenant improvement and office buildout at scale. Multi‑state or multi‑country facilities. Data center or mission‑critical environments. EHS and building code compliance.

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.

Compensation Range: $304K - $354K