Welder

TAR; Odessa (TX); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

TAR is building the world’s first off-grid power plant for data centers powered by renewables and is hiring a Welder to join the West Texas site. You will turn drawings into finished steel for robots, racking, and tooling, with field and shop work, sometimes on tight timelines.

You’ll weld brackets, frames, and racks using MIG, TIG, and stick processes, read drawings, and collaborate with engineers to solve fabrication challenges in a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on welding and fabrication experience.
• Proficiency in MIG (GMAW), TIG (GTAW), and stick (SMAW) welding.
• Ability to read and interpret part drawings and weld symbols.
• Experience preparing and cutting material with saws, grinders, a torch, or plasma.
• Accurate fit-up and measuring with a tape, square, level, and calipers.
• Comfortable working from drawings that change and sketches that come in fast.
• Comfortable working on your own and solving problems without waiting for direction.

Responsibilities

• Read and interpret part drawings, weld symbols, and work instructions to build parts and assemblies.
• Prepare and cut material by measuring, marking, sawing, grinding, beveling, and plasma cutting steel and aluminum stock.
• MIG, TIG, and stick weld brackets, frames, fixtures, carts, and racks in carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum.
• Fit up, tack, and square assemblies with clamps, jigs, and fixtures, and check them against drawing dimensions.
• Repair and modify robot frames, racking, and field equipment, both in the shop and on site.
• Build the tooling the crew needs, from lifting aids to overhead rigs, often from a sketch and a conversation with engineering.
• Inspect your own welds and fix defects before parts leave your bench.
• Run the plasma table and handheld plasma cutter, and keep the welders maintained.
• Tell engineers when a joint is hard to reach, a part will warp, or there’s a faster way to build it.
• Keep the weld area organized, safe, and stocked with consumables and gas.
• Follow site safety rules and JSAs every time.

Skills

MIG welding

TIG welding

Stick welding

Reading drawings

Fabrication

Measurement tools

Tools

CNC plasma table

Handheld plasma cutter

Torch cutting

Job description

TAR’s mission is to power intelligence for the world. We are building the world’s first off-grid power plant for data centers powered by renewable technologies.

We firmly believe AI should be built in the US for the benefit of all people. For that, power must be fast, clean and scalable. We are singularly focused on delivering GW-scale power faster than anyone has ever done, by rethinking every layer of the stack.

We vertically integrate to solve every bottleneck, from racking systems to power electronics to dispatch algorithms to on-site construction.

Leave your mark on the future of civilization-scale energy infrastructure.

Company

TAR is both a hardware and software company, we are building out massive, critical, physical infrastructure. TAR is working directly with one of the largest compute providers to scale and deploy 5GWs by 2028.

• High ownership. High Agency. Own project end-to-end. Great people don’t need to be managed.
• Speed. We achieve great things on incredible timelines. We push ourselves to go faster.
• First principles. No ego. No hierarchy. Challenge every assumption.
• Passion. Solving the energy problem is one of the largest challenges that faces the world now and in the future.

About the role Our robots and racking get tested for real at our test site in West Texas. When the team needs a bracket, a frame, a cart, or a repair, it usually needs it today. You’re the person who makes that happen.

As our Welder, you’ll turn drawings and quick sketches into finished steel. You'll cut, fit, and weld parts for the robots, the racking, and the tooling our crew uses every day. You’ll work on a small crew of assemblers and machinists, reporting to our Manufacturing Lead, and side by side with the engineers who design what you build.

This is less production welding and more “we need this fixed by Thursday.” Some days you’re in the shop, and some days you’re out in the field repairing hardware where it stands.

Responsibilities

• Read and interpret part drawings, weld symbols, and work instructions to build parts and assemblies.
• Prepare and cut material by measuring, marking, sawing, grinding, beveling, and plasma cutting steel and aluminum stock.
• MIG, TIG, and stick weld brackets, frames, fixtures, carts, and racks in carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum.
• Fit up, tack, and square assemblies with clamps, jigs, and fixtures, and check them against drawing dimensions.
• Repair and modify robot frames, racking, and field equipment, both in the shop and on site.
• Build the tooling the crew needs, from lifting aids to overhead rigs, often from a sketch and a conversation with engineering.
• Inspect your own welds and fix defects before parts leave your bench.
• Run the plasma table and handheld plasma cutter, and keep the welders maintained.
• Tell engineers when a joint is hard to reach, a part will warp, or there’s a faster way to build it.
• Keep the weld area organized, safe, and stocked with consumables and gas.
• Follow site safety rules and JSAs every time.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on welding and fabrication experience.
• Proficiency in MIG (GMAW), TIG (GTAW), and stick (SMAW) welding.
• Ability to read and interpret part drawings and weld symbols.
• Experience preparing and cutting material with saws, grinders, a torch, or plasma.
• Accurate fit-up and measuring with a tape, square, level, and calipers.
• Comfortable working from drawings that change and sketches that come in fast.
• Comfortable working on your own and solving problems without waiting for direction.

Nice to have

• Experience with a CNC plasma table and a handheld plasma cutter.
• AWS certification, such as D1.1 structural steel.
• Flux-core (FCAW) welding experience.
• Oilfield, pipeline, trailer, or heavy equipment fabrication.