Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Chassis Fabrication

Fluidstack; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 203,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a manufacturing engineer to own chassis fabrication and the processes turning steel into module frames. You will develop routings, work instructions, fixtures, and cycle times for weld-heavy fabrication, and lead lines and revisions with PFMEAs and ramp curves.

You will drive yield and cost through data-driven improvements weekly. The role emphasizes ownership, fast pace, and practical instruction writing, with a focus on reducing cycle times and deploying new fabrication

Qualifications

• The candidate should have manufacturing engineering experience in heavy fabrication or weldment environments.
• Experience launching fabrication lines or major process changes to improve rate.
• Ability to write work instructions that operators actually use.
• Experience running PFMEAs to predict real failures.
• Credential with fixture design or takt-based production is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own manufacturing engineering for chassis fabrication and the processes turning steel into module frames.
• 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 reduction using weekly data.

Skills

Manufacturing engineering

Heavy fabrication

Weldment production

PFMEAs

Takt-based production

Process improvement

Tools

Tekla

CAD

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