Cost Lead

FluidStack
Austin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 160,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Stakeholder management","Attention to detail"]

Cost Lead responsible for end-to-end cost management of Fluidstack's data center portfolio, from budgeting and estimating through construction and final accounts. You will build benchmarks, run real-time forecasts, review change orders, and provide executive-level cost reports while coordinating with PMs, design teams, and GCs to keep projects on-budget and de-risk financials.

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FluidStack
FluidStack
4 months ago

Cost Lead

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Job Summary

Cost Lead responsible for end-to-end cost management of Fluidstack's data center portfolio, from budgeting and estimating through construction and final accounts. You will build benchmarks, run real-time forecasts, review change orders, and provide executive-level cost reports while coordinating with PMs, design teams, and GCs to keep projects on-budget and de-risk financials.
Location: Austin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own cost planning across all project phases — from concept and pre-design through construction documents and GMP negotiation.
  • •Develop detailed estimates for civil, structural, MEP, HV/LV power, cooling, fuel systems, and shell construction.
  • •Maintain real-time cost forecasts across all active projects; track actuals vs. budget and surface variances early.
  • •Own change order review: assess scope validity, commercial accuracy, and contract entitlement before recommending approval.
  • •Prepare executive-level cost reports across the portfolio — clear, scannable, exception-based.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 160,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPensionPaid LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Experience with cost management, quantity surveying, or construction estimating.
  • •Meaningful hands-on experience on data center or mission-critical construction — hyperscale, colo, or large-scale build-to-suit.
  • •Owner-side experience strongly preferred; GC or QS consulting backgrounds considered if DC domain knowledge is deep.
  • •Deep understanding of the DC cost stack: civil, structural, MEP, HV/LV power, cooling (CRAC/CRAH, DLC, immersion), emergency power, and IT fit-out.
  • •Builder mindset — comfortable setting up function and process where little exists, and operating with urgency in a fast-moving program.
Experience:Data centerConstruction
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingStakeholder managementAttention to detail
Tech Stack:ProcoreSage

Company Brief

FluidStack
Builds and deploys large-scale GPU cloud infrastructure for AI labs, enterprises and governments, providing high-performance AI training and inference capacity and rapid data-center deployment services.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2017
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