Technical Program Manager, Network

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in New York is seeking a Network Deployment Manager to run the deployments program across sites, managing turn-up schedules, material readiness, and cross-team dependencies.

You will track fabric-critical components, coordinate with construction and compute teams, and report status with honest, link-level truth.

The role rewards ownership, velocity, and the ability to push ambitious projects across a scalable hyperscale data-center environment.

Qualifications

• You've program-managed network builds or turn-ups at scale.
• You track material readiness at the SKU level when it matters.
• You know enough networking to challenge a status update.
• You close dependencies across teams that don't report to you.
• Bonus: hyperscale network programs, optics supply chains, turn-up automation exposure.

Responsibilities

• Run the network deployment program: turn-up schedules, material readiness, and cross-team dependencies per site.
• Track fabric-critical materials, switches, optics, cables, from purchase order to installed, escalating shortfalls early.
• Coordinate network turn-up with construction, deployment, and compute schedules so the fabric is never the long pole.
• Report network deployment status with link-level truth, not summary optimism.

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 Deployments Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Turn empty data halls into serving GPUs in weeks. Deployment owns everything between construction handover and customer-ready compute: racks, fabric, and validation at hundreds of megawatts per site.




• Stand up gigawatts a year, hundreds of megawatts at a time. Data halls go from construction handover to serving GPUs in weeks, across multiple sites at once.




• Deploy 10s to 100s of GWs with software, not headcount. Bring-up, validation, and handoff run on tooling the team builds, so the hundredth data hall deploys faster than the first instead of needing a hundred times the people.

Role Scope

• Run the network deployment program: turn-up schedules, material readiness, and cross-team dependencies per site.




• Track fabric-critical materials, switches, optics, cables, from purchase order to installed, escalating shortfalls early.




• Coordinate network turn-up with construction, deployment, and compute schedules so the fabric is never the long pole.




• Report network deployment status with link-level truth, not summary optimism.

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 program-managed network builds or turn-ups at scale.




• You track material readiness at the SKU level when it matters.




• You know enough networking to challenge a status update.




• You close dependencies across teams that don't report to you.




• Bonus: Hyperscale network programs. Optics supply chains. Turn-up automation exposure. Program tooling.

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.