FluidStack

1 month ago

Principal Mechanical Operations Lead — Data Center Operations

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Job Summary

Lead as the senior operational authority for mechanical and cooling infrastructure across Fluidstack’s hyperscale data centers, focusing on chillers, cooling towers, CDUs and liquid cooling. Drive site audits, operational readiness for new sites, and design reviews to ensure reliability, safety, and productized, repeatable builds in a fast-moving compute environment.

Location: United States

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Key Responsibilities

•Serve as the principal operational technical authority for mechanical infrastructure across the fleet, including chillers, cooling towers, CRACs/CRAHs, CDUs (direct-to-chip and immersion), dry coolers, economizers, pumping systems, water treatment, and associated piping infrastructure.
•Lead technical and operational site audits across active and pre-activation sites; produce operational health assessments with prioritized findings and own the remediation roadmap through closure with site leadership.
•Own mechanical operational readiness for new sites coming online — assess team capability, validate procedures, and personally sign off on operational handover from commissioning to steady-state operations.
•Review operational designs for new builds and capacity upgrades; represent the operational point of view in design forums and ensure operability, maintainability, and reliability concerns are surfaced and addressed before they are built in.
•Feed structured operational learnings back into the design and manufacturing organization as we shift toward repeatable, productized data center builds; reinforce patterns that work and drive out patterns that have not held up in operations.

Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 250,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveRetirement

Key Requirements

•10+ years of hands-on experience in mission-critical mechanical and cooling systems, with at least 5 years as the senior technical voice on a site, campus, or fleet.
•Data center operations experience strongly preferred; central plant, industrial cooling, pharmaceutical, or semiconductor mission-critical experience considered.
•Deep working command of chilled water plants, condenser water systems, CDUs and liquid cooling, air handling, refrigeration cycles, and pumping and piping systems.
•Practical command of psychrometric charts, refrigeration cycles, and ASHRAE thermal guidelines for data center environments.
•Demonstrated ability to author, approve, and execute high-risk MOPs and EOPs in live critical environments.

Experience:10+ yearsData centerHyperscale

Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentoringProblem-solvingTeamwork

Tech Stack:ChillersCooling towersCRACs/CRAHsCDUsLiquid coolingP&IDASHRAE

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 month ago

Principal Mechanical Operations Lead — Data Center Operations

✓ Verified Job

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

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 5 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: United States

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Key Responsibilities

•Serve as the principal operational technical authority for mechanical infrastructure across the fleet, including chillers, cooling towers, CRACs/CRAHs, CDUs (direct-to-chip and immersion), dry coolers, economizers, pumping systems, water treatment, and associated piping infrastructure.
•Lead technical and operational site audits across active and pre-activation sites; produce operational health assessments with prioritized findings and own the remediation roadmap through closure with site leadership.
•Own mechanical operational readiness for new sites coming online — assess team capability, validate procedures, and personally sign off on operational handover from commissioning to steady-state operations.
•Review operational designs for new builds and capacity upgrades; represent the operational point of view in design forums and ensure operability, maintainability, and reliability concerns are surfaced and addressed before they are built in.
•Feed structured operational learnings back into the design and manufacturing organization as we shift toward repeatable, productized data center builds; reinforce patterns that work and drive out patterns that have not held up in operations.

Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 250,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveRetirement

Key Requirements

•10+ years of hands-on experience in mission-critical mechanical and cooling systems, with at least 5 years as the senior technical voice on a site, campus, or fleet.
•Data center operations experience strongly preferred; central plant, industrial cooling, pharmaceutical, or semiconductor mission-critical experience considered.
•Deep working command of chilled water plants, condenser water systems, CDUs and liquid cooling, air handling, refrigeration cycles, and pumping and piping systems.
•Practical command of psychrometric charts, refrigeration cycles, and ASHRAE thermal guidelines for data center environments.
•Demonstrated ability to author, approve, and execute high-risk MOPs and EOPs in live critical environments.

Experience:10+ yearsData centerHyperscale

Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentoringProblem-solvingTeamwork

Tech Stack:ChillersCooling towersCRACs/CRAHsCDUsLiquid coolingP&IDASHRAE

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