Structural Engineer, Capacity Delivery

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin, TX is seeking a senior structural engineer to lead multi-site data center design, review geotechnical reports, and guide external engineers through IFC milestones.

You will translate soil and seismic data into robust design actions, develop basis of design docs, and help scale next-gen cooling and distribution systems while controlling costs.

This role requires ownership, urgency, and ability to operate with minimal oversight in a frontier infrastructure company.

Qualifications

• Experience in structural engineering for large-scale buildings or infrastructure.
• Ability to read geotechnical reports and translate data into design actions.
• Coordinate with civil, geotech, and MEP teams; manage external engineers through IFC.
• Familiarity with foundations, structural steel, and building envelopes for large-format projects.
• Assess structural cost and constructability risks early in site development.
• Bonus: PE license or active pursuit; data center/industrial projects; seismic design.

Responsibilities

• Support the structural engineering workstream across multi-site development from site screening through design, permitting and construction completion.
• Perform due diligence for greenfield and conversion sites: foundation conditions, existing structures, geotechnical constraints.
• Review geotechnical reports and assign structural design actions related to soil bearing, settlement, and seismic classification.
• Develop and maintain structural basis of design, standard details, specs; coordinate with civil, geotech, and MEP teams.
• Manage external structural engineers through design milestones and IFC deliverables.
• Identify structural cost risks during site selection, including retrofit complexity for conversions.

Skills

Structural engineering

Geotechnical reports

IFC coordination

ETABS

RISA

RAM

Seismic design

Conversion retrofit

Tools

ETABS

RISA

RAM

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

• 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.

The Data Center Design Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Lead the design, development, and execution of 10s to 100s of GWs of data centers this decade.

• Drive the next generation of liquid cooling and electrical distribution systems.

• Develop and scale first-of-a-kind modular data centers.

• Influence behind-the-meter designs and planning for multi-GW campuses.

Role Scope

• Support the structural engineering workstream across a multi-site development portfolio from site screening through design, permitting, and construction completion.

• Support structural due diligence for greenfield and conversion sites: foundation conditions, existing-structure assessments, and geotechnical constraints.

• Review geotechnical reports and assign structural design actions from soil bearing capacities, settlement risk, and seismic classification.

• Develop and maintain structural basis of design, standard details, and specs, and coordinate with civil, geotech, and MEP teams.

• Manage external structural engineers of record through design milestones, reviewing deliverables for quality through IFC.

• Identify structural cost risks during site selection, including retrofit complexity on conversions.

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.

• You've worked structural engineering on large-scale buildings or infrastructure, ideally owner/developer-side, and you want deep data center exposure.

• You read geotechnical reports and translate soil and seismic data into structural design actions.

• You coordinate with civil, geotech, and MEP and manage external engineers of record through IFC.

• You know foundations, structural steel, and building envelope systems for large-format buildings.

• You spot structural cost and constructability risk early, not after the site is locked.

• Bonus: PE license or active pursuit. Data center, industrial, or mission-critical structures. ETABS, RISA, or RAM. Seismic design. Conversion and retrofit experience.

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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