Supplier Quality Engineer, Steel / BMS

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack seeks a hands-on QA professional to own supplier quality for steel fabrication and modular build components, ensuring welds, dimensions, and coatings meet spec. You will audit shops, run inspections, and drive standardization of quality requirements to enable fast, reliable delivery on frontier data-center scale projects.

Leverage experience with weld specs, structural drawings, and QA processes to reduce defects and schedule risk.

Qualifications

• Experience with QA in steel fabrication focusing on welds, dimensions, coatings.
• Ability to read weld procedures and structural drawings fluently.
• Experience rejecting non-conforming work and managing schedule impact.
• Proven track record bringing shops up to standard rather than just documenting gaps.

Responsibilities

• Own supplier quality for steel fabrication and modular build components.
• Audit fabrication shops for weld quality, dimensional control, and coatings.
• Run source inspections on fabricated assemblies to catch defects early.
• Standardize quality requirements flowdown across fabricators.

Skills

Quality assurance

Welds inspection

Geometry & drawings

Process improvement

Tools

AWS CWI

NDE methods

AISC-certified shop

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 Supply Chain Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Supply compute at a scale of 10s to 100s of GWs, the largest build out of compute in history. Qualify and dual-source across every critical equipment category, with lead-time and capacity thresholds tied directly to the forward build pipeline.

• Make supply chain the reason we build faster than anyone. Our modular build redefines speed in this industry, and it lives or dies on supply chain. Keep procurement permanently off the critical path so schedule compression stays our advantage, not our constraint.

• Build the most accurate supply chain prediction modelling that exists. Use the frontier of AI to forecast lead times, demand, and disruption with a precision the industry has never had, and turn that foresight into a structural edge.

Role Scope

• Own supplier quality for steel fabrication and building systems suppliers feeding the modular build.

• Audit fabrication shops on weld quality, dimensional control, and coating systems before and during production.

• Run source inspections on fabricated assemblies so defects get caught at the shop, not at the site crane.

• Standardize the quality requirements flowdown so every fabricator builds to the same bar.

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 done quality assurance in steel fabrication: welds, dimensions, coatings.

• You read weld procedure specifications and structural drawings fluently.

• You've rejected fabricated work and managed the schedule fallout it caused.

• You bring shops up to standard rather than just documenting that they miss it.

• Bonus: AWS CWI certification. AISC-certified shop experience. NDE methods. Modular construction QA.

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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