Technical Lead, Facilities Telemetry Platform

Fluidstack; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack seeks a lead engineer to own the facilities telemetry platform, unifying sensors, meters, and controllers across our fleet into a single queryable system. You will shape ingestion, storage, and APIs used by operations, ML, and controls teams.

You will drive data standards across sites, ensure SLA-driven reliability, and take on the toughest technical challenges with a small team. Join us to push frontier compute infrastructure forward.

Qualifications

• Experience building or leading time-series/telemetry platforms at industrial or fleet scale.
• Ingestion design that handles protocols like BACnet, Modbus, OPC UA.
• Ability to set and enforce data standards across multiple sites.
• Track record of meeting SLAs and operating maturity.

Responsibilities

• Lead the facilities telemetry platform across the fleet.
• Own ingestion, time-series storage, and APIs used by ops, ML, and controls teams.
• Define data naming, units, and quality controls at the edge.
• Manage a small team while solving the toughest technical challenges.

Skills

Time-series platforms

Telemetry systems

Leadership

Data standards

Codebase leadership

Edge computing

BMS/SCADA integration

Kafka/streaming

Tools

Timescale

InfluxDB

ClickHouse

Kafka

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

• Lead the facilities telemetry platform: the pipeline taking every sensor, meter, and controller across the fleet into one queryable system.

• Own the architecture: ingestion, time-series storage, and APIs that operations, ML, and controls teams build on.

• Set the data standards: naming, units, and quality enforced at the edge so gigawatts of telemetry stay usable.

• Lead a small team while carrying the hardest technical pieces yourself.

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 built or led time-series or telemetry platforms at industrial or fleet scale.

• You've designed ingestion that survived messy field protocols: BACnet, Modbus, OPC UA.

• You've set data standards that stuck across teams and sites.

• Your platforms have SLAs and the operational maturity to hit them.

• You lead from the front of the codebase.

• Bonus: Timescale, Influx, or ClickHouse. Edge computing. BMS and SCADA integration. Kafka or streaming systems.

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.