FluidStack

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Staff Mechanical Operator — Data Center Operations

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Job Summary

Own mechanical operations on shift for always-on AI data center facilities, serving as the top escalation point for failures across chiller plants, CRAC/CRAH units, air handlers, pumps, and cooling loops. Execute preventive maintenance end to end (scheduling, vendor supervision, lockout/tagout, QA), lead root-cause analysis for mechanical incidents, and update operating procedures (SOPs/MOPs/EOPs). Drive BMS alarm hygiene and trend analysis and close commissioning handovers to steady-state operations.

Location: Austin

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Own mechanical operations on shift as the top escalation point for failures across chiller plant, CRAC/CRAH, air handler, pump, and cooling loop systems in a live facility.
•Run preventive maintenance execution end to end, including scheduling, vendor supervision, lockout/tagout, and QA of completed work with auditable records.
•Lead root-cause analysis for mechanical incidents and drive corrective actions to closure, including procedure updates, setpoint changes, and spare parts adjustments.
•Build and maintain operating procedures (SOPs, MOPs, EOPs) for mechanical systems and drill them so any operator can execute under failure conditions.
•Drive BMS alarm hygiene and trend analysis and close commissioning-to-operations handovers for new mechanical plant systems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 310,000 - 378,000 annually

Key Requirements

•8+ years of hands-on mechanical or critical facilities operations in data centers, including experience with a hyperscale operator, colocation provider, or cloud data center operations team.
•Deep operating knowledge of chillers, cooling towers, CRAC/CRAH units, air handlers, pumps, and hydronic loops, including startup, failover, and recovery under load.
•Fluency in BMS platforms, including reading trends, tuning alarms, and diagnosing faults from controls data.
•Track record owning root-cause analysis and preventive maintenance programs at scale, not just executing tickets.
•Experience as the senior mechanical escalation point on shift, making calls during outages when the runbook runs out.

Experience:8+ yearsData centersHyperscaleColocationCloud infrastructure

Skills:Extreme ownershipFull autonomyRoot-cause analysisPreventive maintenance ownershipCalm under high uptime

Certifications:EPA 608 Universal

Tech Stack:BMSChillersCRACCRAHAir handlersPumpsHydronic loopsDirect-to-chip liquid coolingCDUsLockout/tagoutSOPsMOPsEOPs

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

Glassdoor: 4.7

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FluidStack

1 day ago

Staff Mechanical Operator — Data Center Operations

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: Just nowStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Austin

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Own mechanical operations on shift as the top escalation point for failures across chiller plant, CRAC/CRAH, air handler, pump, and cooling loop systems in a live facility.
•Run preventive maintenance execution end to end, including scheduling, vendor supervision, lockout/tagout, and QA of completed work with auditable records.
•Lead root-cause analysis for mechanical incidents and drive corrective actions to closure, including procedure updates, setpoint changes, and spare parts adjustments.
•Build and maintain operating procedures (SOPs, MOPs, EOPs) for mechanical systems and drill them so any operator can execute under failure conditions.
•Drive BMS alarm hygiene and trend analysis and close commissioning-to-operations handovers for new mechanical plant systems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 310,000 - 378,000 annually

Key Requirements

•8+ years of hands-on mechanical or critical facilities operations in data centers, including experience with a hyperscale operator, colocation provider, or cloud data center operations team.
•Deep operating knowledge of chillers, cooling towers, CRAC/CRAH units, air handlers, pumps, and hydronic loops, including startup, failover, and recovery under load.
•Fluency in BMS platforms, including reading trends, tuning alarms, and diagnosing faults from controls data.
•Track record owning root-cause analysis and preventive maintenance programs at scale, not just executing tickets.
•Experience as the senior mechanical escalation point on shift, making calls during outages when the runbook runs out.

Experience:8+ yearsData centersHyperscaleColocationCloud infrastructure

Skills:Extreme ownershipFull autonomyRoot-cause analysisPreventive maintenance ownershipCalm under high uptime

Certifications:EPA 608 Universal

Tech Stack:BMSChillersCRACCRAHAir handlersPumpsHydronic loopsDirect-to-chip liquid coolingCDUsLockout/tagoutSOPsMOPsEOPs

Company Brief

FluidStack

Industry: Cloud Computing

Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)

Growth: Growth Stage Startup

Funding: Series A

Headquarters: New York, United States

Founded: 2017

Glassdoor: 4.7

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor