Structural Engineer

Fluidstack; Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle (TX, NY, CA, WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI by designing modular, scalable data-center structures. The team emphasizes autonomy, urgency, first-principles thinking, and delivering impactful infrastructure at scale.

The role focuses on engineering steel structures, ensuring safe lifting and installation, and collaborating with fabricators to meet project demands. We value experience in industrial or modular construction, with a preference for those who can QA and seal packages

Qualifications

• Designs structural steel for industrial or modular construction.
• Calculates connections and members for clean, buildable structures.
• Engineers lifting, transport, and erection conditions.
• Collaborates with fabricators and respects shop capabilities.
• Experience with permitting and sealed packages is a plus.
• Bonus: PE or SE license; Tekla interface; seismic design depth; modular/skid structures.

Responsibilities

• Engineer modular units, equipment supports, and buildings for fast fabrication and erection.
• Own the structural calcs and drawings: steel designed to AISC, stamp-ready, and factory-ready.
• Design for shipping and lifting: ensure modules survive road and crane.
• Standardize the structural reference design so every site starts from proven steel.

Skills

Structural steel design for industrial

Connections & members calc

Lifting, transport & erection

Work with fabricators

Permitting experience

PE/SE license or Tekla knowledge

Tools

Tekla interface

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.

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.

• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.

• Reason from 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.

• Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

Role Scope

• Engineer the structures: modular units, equipment supports, and buildings designed for fast fabrication and faster erection.

• Own the structural calcs and drawings: steel designed to AISC, stamp-ready, and detailed for the factory.

• Design for shipping and lifting: modules that survive the road and the crane, engineered rather than assumed.

• Standardize the structural reference design so every site starts from proven steel.

What We're Looking For

• You've designed structural steel for industrial or modular construction.

• Your connections and members calc out and build clean.

• You've engineered lifting, transport, and erection conditions.

• You work with fabricators and respect what the shop can hold.

• You've sealed or supported sealed packages through permitting.

• Bonus: PE or SE license. Tekla interface. Seismic design depth. Modular and skid structures.

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.