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Electrical Team Lead, Capacity Delivery

Austin, TX · New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WAOnsite

About Fluidstack

Technology is the most important tool humans have found for improving the human condition, but it is not a default good. It is a lever for ideology.

Today the most powerful technology in history is being built: machines that solve problems better than humans can. The most important mission of our generation is to imbue AI with democratic values: error-correcting institutions, freedom of speech, individual liberties. AI trains and runs on massive compute clusters. Whichever ideology builds the infrastructure the fastest is the ideology that will endure. Democracy is delicate and won't survive this technology by default.

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 Capacity Delivery Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

  • Engineer gigawatts from drawing to energized, in months not years. Capacity Delivery owns technical execution across every build: the drawings, the field questions, and the engineering calls that keep multiple concurrent gigawatt sites moving.

  • Engineer data centers that go up in months, not years. At that pace rework is not an option: problems get caught on paper or they cost a data hall.

  • Design it once, build it a hundred times. Every site's lessons roll into the reference design on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs, so each build starts ahead of the last.

Role Scope

  • Lead the electrical design team across several delivery projects acting as the technical subject matter expert serving as a point of escalation.

  • Develop AE electrical scope of work and relationships, including performance and capacity reviews and development of new engineering pipelines.

  • Own electrical design, construction administration and engineering support scope for active multi-hundred-megawatt programs, and brief the executive team on the trade-offs that shape capital and portfolio decisions.

  • Collaborate with Engineering R&D to provide them with active projects feedback and project life cycle improvements and modifications due to localization requirements and vendor selection impacts.

  • Define the requirements so consultant studies (short circuit, coordination, arc flash) are reviewed critically rather than ceremonially before release.

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 led electrical engineering as head of function for data center or heavy industrial builds, with sign-off authority across a portfolio of concurrent programs.

  • You've built an engineering organization: hired quickly, wrote the operating model, and grew engineers into leads who carry programs without you.

  • You've standardized an electrical design, deployed it across multiple sites, and used each build to improve the standard.

  • Bonus: PE license. MV and HV distribution (15 kV and 38 kV switchgear, HV switchyards). Behind-the-meter generation (combined cycle, aeroderivative peakers). Utility interconnection (PJM, ERCOT, MISO). OEM and EPC contract negotiation (switchgear, transformers, UPS).

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.

Compensation

$347K – $420K • Offers Equity

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