Structural Engineer, Modular R&D

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack seeks a hands-on Structural Engineer to design and validate modular data center frames, enclosures, and lifting/transport structures for scalable AI compute deployments in Austin, TX.

You will own structural calcs, load paths, and tolerances, collaborate across disciplines, and drive prototypes and first-article reviews from concept through fabrication.

The role emphasizes robust drawings, manufacturability, and cross-functional problem solving across teams.

Qualifications

• Engineered structures hands-on for complex products, modular construction, or heavy fabrication.
• Taken steel or sheet metal products from concept through fabrication, not just analysis of others’ designs.
• Supported production launches of own designs and stayed accountable through first articles.
• Treat transport loads, lifting points, and stacking as first-class design constraints.
• Drawings built cleanly so fabricators rarely call; you fix drawings when needed.

Responsibilities

• Engineer structural systems of modular product frames, enclosures, and lifting/transport structures from concept through released fabrication drawings.
• Own structural calcs and load paths to ensure survivability during fabrication, shipping, and stacking; avoid redesigns.
• Resolve integration between structure and MEP: penetrations and tolerances where disciplines collide.
• Provide RFIs support and engineering fixes for next revision; drive prototyping and validation through mockups and first-article reviews.
• Collaborate across disciplines and iterate quickly while maintaining configuration control.

Skills

Structural design

Modular construction

3D CAD

DFM

Cross-discipline collaboration

Education

PE license

Tools

SolidWorks

Inventor

Revit

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

• 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.

The Modular Team

The Modular team designs and ships factory-built data center modules that carry the largest AI compute buildout in history.

Examples of key problems the team is working on:

• Engineer a modular data center product that survives fabrication, trucking, craning, and stacking without field rework.
• Resolve the collisions between structure and MEP: penetrations, attachment points, and tolerances where disciplines meet in a tight envelope.
• Compress the loop from factory and field issues to engineered fixes in the next design revision.
• Prove designs with physical mockups, fit checks, and first-article reviews before they scale to production.

Role Scope

• Engineer the structural systems of the modular product, frames, enclosures, and lifting and transport structures, from concept through released fabrication drawings.
• Own the structural calcs and load paths so modules survive fabrication, shipping, rigging, and stacking without redesign.
• Solve the integration problems where structure meets MEP: penetrations, attachment points, and tolerances where the disciplines collide.
• Run structural support for the factory and field, answering RFIs same-day and engineering fixes into the next revision.
• Drive prototyping and validation through mockups, fit checks, and first-article reviews you attend in person.

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 engineered structures hands-on for complex physical products, modular construction, or heavy fabrication (modules, trailers, skids, container conversions).
• You've taken a steel or sheet metal product from concept through fabrication, not just analyzed someone else's design.
• You've supported production launches of your own designs and stayed accountable through first articles.
• You treat transport loads, lifting points, and stacking as first-class design constraints, not afterthoughts checked at the end.
• Your drawings build clean: fabricators rarely call, and when they do, you fix the drawing.
• You work across disciplines instead of throwing problems over walls, and you iterate fast without losing configuration control.
• Bonus: PE license, steel and sheet metal design depth, structural detailing standards (AISC, AWS), 3D CAD mastery (SolidWorks, Inventor, Revit), and strong DFM instincts.

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.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [e-mail] with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.