Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Chassis Fabrication

Fluidstack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 203,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pay equity and transparency

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale AI infrastructure and seeks a manufacturing engineer to own chassis fabrication, develop routings, and drive cost and yield improvements. You will formulate PFMEA-driven plans, write practical work instructions, and lead line launches for weld-heavy production.

The role demands hands-on ownership, the ability to push through data-driven improvements, and collaboration across hardware and software teams in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Experience as manufacturing engineer in heavy fabrication or weldment production.
• Ability to write work instructions operators actually use.
• Experience launching fabrication lines or major process changes to increase rate.
• Knowledge of PFMEAs to predict real failures.
• Ability to reduce cycle time on a trusted process.

Responsibilities

• Own manufacturing engineering for chassis fabrication and related processes.
• Develop process plans: routings, work instructions, fixtures, and cycle times for weld-heavy fabrication.
• Launch new lines and revisions with PFMEAs and ramp curves.
• Drive yield and cost improvements using weekly data reviews.

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 manufacturing engineering for chassis fabrication: the processes turning steel into module frames at takt.
• Develop the process plans: routings, work instructions, fixtures, and cycle times for weld-heavy fabrication.
• Launch new lines and product revisions: PFMEAs, capability runs, and ramp curves you own.
• Drive yield and cost: scrap, rework, and cycle time attacked with data weekly.

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 been the manufacturing engineer for heavy fabrication or weldment production.
• You've launched fabrication lines or major process changes to rate.
• You write work instructions operators actually use.
• You run PFMEAs that predict the real failures.
• You've cut cycle time on a process everyone said was optimized.
• Bonus: Welding process depth. Fixture design. Tekla or CAD fluency. Takt-based production systems.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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: $203K - $232K