Technical Lead, Facilities Automation & AI-Driven Controls

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 269,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building frontier compute infrastructure and seeks engineers to lead facilities software automation, owning telemetry through actuation with safety and authorization built in. You will set engineering standards for a team shipping against live infrastructure.

You will tackle closed-loop control, simulations, and rollout strategies across the fleet, with a bias for fast iteration and high reliability. We value initiative and ownership.

Qualifications

• Led teams building software that controls or automates physical systems.
• Designed act-on-plant paths with interlocks, authorization and audit.
• Scaled automation from a single site to multiple sites with a rollout model.
• Balancing speed with blast radius in architecture decisions.
• You still write the critical code.
• Bonus: PLC, BMS, digital twin, energy systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead facilities software automation for physical plant control.
• Own the architecture from telemetry to actuation with safety built in.
• Set engineering standards for a live infrastructure team.
• Tackle hardest problems: closed-loop control, simulation and fleet rollout strategies.

Skills

Team leadership

Automation for physical systems

Systems architecture

Interlocks and audit

Rollout strategy

Critical code

Controls background (bonus)

Tools

PLC

BMS

Digital twin

Job description

Fluidstack is building frontier compute infrastructure and seeks engineers to lead facilities software automation, owning telemetry through actuation with safety and authorization built in. You will set engineering standards for a team shipping against live infrastructure.

You will tackle closed-loop control, simulations, and rollout strategies across the fleet, with a bias for fast iteration and high reliability. We value initiative and ownership.