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# Fluidstack Labs Lead at Fluidstack

- **Company:** [Fluidstack](https://feeny.ai/companies/fluidstack)
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fluidstack/4ec0cf5f-7643-4a05-802d-1edd20a3a826

## 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.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

## 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.

The Fluidstack Labs Team Examples of key problems the team is working on

- Qualify the hardware the frontier runs on before it runs anywhere else. First samples of next-generation accelerators, switches, storage, and liquid cooling land here, and leave as production-ready platforms with runbooks the whole fleet inherits.
- Compress silicon-to-production to weeks. The lab closes the gap between vendor sample and customer-ready gigawatt infrastructure, and every week cut here pulls the entire 10s-of-GW deployment curve forward.
- Run the lab like a production site. Provisioning, telemetry, demand management, and liquid cooling mirror production architecture exactly, so a qualification pass in the lab is a deployment guarantee in the field.
- Prove the power envelope nobody else will touch. Dynamic demand management lets AI compute deploy beyond nominal electrical capacity, and the lab validates the full detection-to-shutdown response chain that makes it safe.

## Role Scope

- Own the NPI lab end to end: a direct-liquid-cooled facility with CDU-fed rows and an air-cooled zone that mirror production architecture, and take it fully operational by end of year.
- Build and lead the on-site team of data center technicians and lab qualification engineers, and serve as the first escalation point for facility-floor issues.
- Schedule and deconflict qualification programs across vendor sample timelines: next-generation accelerator platforms (NVIDIA, AMD, custom accelerators), Ethernet switching on the Broadcom Tomahawk and Jericho families and NVIDIA Spectrum, converged NVMe storage platforms (Weka, Hammerspace, VAST Data), and CDU platforms (nVent, CoolIT, Vertiv). You own operations, scheduling, and execution while an NPI technical program manager and per-domain technical leads (compute and storage, networking, optics and fiber, cooling and controls) drive the technical content of each program.
- Run the multi-party access model under which hardware partners and customers qualify their own equipment in the lab, including customer-owned hardware, NDAs and access agreements, badging coordination, vendor escort, and provisioned remote access.
- Own lab logistics: equipment receiving, asset inventory, rack-and-stack execution quality, RMA handling, migration and standup of lab infrastructure, and coordination of CDU manifold connections and leak inspection with deployment engineering.
- Host the power oversubscription and demand-management validation program, from rPDU commissioning and stress harnesses through the full detection to load-shed to shutdown response chain.

## 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](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fluidstack/05c2e69c-42f9-4fcb-9cf0-a467aaf98f1c).

- You've run a hardware lab, NPI program, or qualification facility and owned its day-to-day operation, from equipment intake to floor discipline to schedule.
- You've managed technicians and engineers directly, set the standard for work quality on the floor, and been the escalation point your team called first when something broke.
- You've worked hands-on with liquid cooling and high-density power, close enough to a CDU loop and a 100 kW rack that technicians take your direction seriously.
- You've hosted vendor or customer engineering teams on your own floor and kept their equipment, access, and confidentiality boundaries clean.
- Inventory and asset discipline are habits, not afterthoughts: every device you've received, racked, RMA'd, or shipped was accounted for without an audit scramble.
- You've stayed calm when multiple vendors' sample schedules collided in the same week, and you deconflicted with a plan rather than an apology.
- Bonus: DLC and CDU commissioning depth. NPI experience at a hyperscaler or major OEM. ITIL-grade lab operations. Standing up a facility from scratch.

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 careers@fluidstack.io 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.

## About Fluidstack

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fluidstack builds and operates gigawatt-scale AI data centers and provides fully managed GPU cloud clusters for frontier AI labs, governments, and enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A stage; total funding of $11.0B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Gary Wu (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: AI Infrastructure / Data Center Construction & Operations / Cloud Computing
- **Target Customers**: Leading AI labs (e.g., Anthropic, poolside), governments, and large enterprises requiring massive-scale compute for training and inference.
- **Mission Statement**: "We exist to make humanity more free... Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built — but only if models are aligned with that objective."

## Products & Services
- **Fully Managed GPU Clusters**: Multi-thousand GPU clusters delivered with zero setup, fully managed (no node touching by the customer), with 15-minute engineering response SLAs and built-in monitoring and remediation. Purpose-built for AI workloads.
- **Custom Data Centers**: Design, build, and operate greenfield data centers from the ground up, delivering gigawatts of compute in 6 months versus the industry standard of 18-24 months. Includes power acquisition, site selection, and civil/electrical/mechanical engineering.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Total Funding**: $11.0 billion (across 14 rounds). Key rounds include a $750M venture round (March 2026) and a $200M Series A led by Cacti (February 2025).
- **Key Metric**: $11.0B in total funding; leading the deployment of Anthropic’s $50B compute buildout, one of the largest infrastructure projects in US history.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Cacti (lead investor), Anthropic (customer/partner), poolside (customer).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 516.7% year-over-year to 143 employees. Currently has 270 active job postings. Expanding rapidly across the US (NY, SF, Austin, Seattle, Buffalo) and internationally (UK, France, Sweden, Nigeria, Switzerland).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed of Deployment**: Can deliver gigawatts of compute in 6 months vs. the industry’s 18-24 months, giving them a massive first-mover advantage in a capital-constrained market.
- **Full-Stack Control**: They acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them — owning the entire hardware and software stack from power generation to GPU orchestration.
- **Tier-1 Customer Base**: Trusted by the world’s most ambitious AI labs (Anthropic, poolside), providing both credibility and a feedback loop for product improvement.
- **Purpose-Built Platform**: Not general-purpose cloud; their platform is specifically optimized for AI researchers, removing all infrastructure friction (no K8s configs, no bare metal management).

## Strategic Focus
- **Massive Scale Buildout**: Deploying Anthropic’s $50B data center project across New York and Texas, representing one of the largest infrastructure projects in US history.
- **Global Expansion**: Expanding operations across 8 countries and multiple US states, with a heavy focus on data center site acquisition, power generation, and modular design.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, construction, operations, security, and project management roles to support hypergrowth.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Directly building the physical infrastructure for the next generation of AI — a rare opportunity to work on frontier technology with tangible, large-scale impact.
- **Rapid Growth Trajectory**: 516.7% headcount growth YoY with 270 open positions signals massive opportunity for career acceleration and ownership.
- **Technical Depth**: Work spans hardware (electrical, civil, mechanical engineering for data centers) and software (GPU cluster orchestration, monitoring, infrastructure platform engineering), offering diverse technical challenges.
- **Top-Tier Talent Pool**: Employees come from AWS, Tesla, Crusoe, Palantir, Oracle, and Meta, indicating a high-caliber, ambitious work environment.
- **Work Policy**: Remote-friendly for many roles, with hubs in San Francisco, New York, Austin, Seattle, and Buffalo. Departments span Engineering, Operations, Data Center, Security, and more.
- **Culture**: Emphasis on speed, autonomy, and removing friction — "We build technology to enable delivery of gigawatts of compute in 6 months" — reflecting a bias for action and operational excellence.

## Sources
1. [fluidstack.io](https://www.fluidstack.io/)
2. [fluidstack.io/about-us](https://www.fluidstack.io/about-us/about)
3. [fluidstack.io/jobs](https://fluidstack.io/jobs)
4. [LinkedIn](https://es.linkedin.com/company/fluidstack)
5. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/fluidstack)

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