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title: 'Tax Planning Lead at Fluidstack'
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# Tax Planning Lead at Fluidstack

- **Company:** [Fluidstack](https://feeny.ai/companies/fluidstack)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fluidstack/90bc917c-902d-4c04-b84e-2f662da78f9f

## 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 Tax Team Examples of key problems the team is working on

- Build a tax function for a company scaling to tens of gigawatts. Provision, compliance, planning, and transfer pricing all get designed at once, with the appropriate controls built in from day one rather than bolted on.
- Structure deals at the speed the Commercial team signs them. Every site, power deal, and JV carries federal, state, and cross-jurisdiction tax consequences, and the structure must be settled at the LOI, not discovered after signing.
- Run a multinational group across seven countries and a growing list of US states. Entity structure, intercompany pricing, and cash movement across the US, UK, and Europe must hold up under audit while the footprint doubles.
- Make tax a design input to the business, not a year-end reconciliation. Site selection, financing, and entity decisions get modeled for tax before they're made, so the answer shapes the deal instead of reacting to it.

## Role Scope

- Run tax due diligence on acquisitions, site and power deals, and JV investments from LOI to signing, and turn the findings into price adjustments, indemnities, and structure changes before the documents are final.
- Structure acquisitions, joint ventures, and financings across US federal, state, and international tax, including entity selection, step plans, and the positions that have to survive an audit.
- Design and execute internal restructurings as the group adds entities, states, and countries, including cross-border reorganizations and the intercompany agreements and capitalization that come with them.
- Build the transfer pricing framework from the ground up across the US, UK, and Europe: intercompany agreements, pricing policies, benchmarking, and documentation.
- Own the state intercompany positions, such as apportionment, related-party addbacks, and intercompany charges, as the company builds datacenter sites across multiple US states.

## 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 tax due diligence on acquisitions or investments and translated what you found into deal terms: purchase price adjustments, indemnities, escrows, or a different structure.
- You've structured acquisitions, JVs, or financings across US federal, state, and international tax and written the step plan that someone else then executed.
- You've planned and executed internal restructurings across multiple entities and countries and held the positions under audit.
- You've built or rebuilt a transfer pricing framework rather than maintaining one, from pricing policy through benchmarking and documentation, and defended it with a tax authority.
- You've handled state intercompany issues across several states, including apportionment, related-party expense addbacks, and intercompany service charges.
- You've worked alongside deal teams and outside counsel on live transactions and delivered the tax answer on the deal's timeline rather than your own.
- You explain a technical tax position clearly enough that a non-tax executive can make a decision on it.
- Bonus: Advanced tax credentials (CPA, JD, LLM in Tax). M&A tax at a Big Four or law firm. Capital-intensive infrastructure (datacenters, energy, real estate). Cross-border reorganizations (§367, F reorganizations). Tax modeling and finance systems (Pigment, NetSuite).

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.

[Applicant Privacy Notice](https://fluidstack.io/legal/applicant-privacy-notice) [AI Screening Notice](https://fluidstack.io/legal/ai-screening-notice) [Ashby Bias Audit](https://fluidstack.io/legal/ashby-bias-audit)

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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