Mechanical Engineer, R&D Team Lead

FluidStack
Austin, New York, Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 284,000 - 340,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: []

Lead mechanical engineering for R&D, driving cooling, piping, and mechanical plant designs for modular units and behind-the-meter systems. Own mechanical reference designs with revision-controlled, defensible documentation, set the technical bar through checked calculations and enforced standards, and review vendor packages. Hire, mentor, and delegate while personally tackling the hardest mechanical problems to help ship civilization-scale AI infrastructure.

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FluidStack
FluidStack
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Mechanical Engineer, R&D Team Lead

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Job Summary

Lead mechanical engineering for R&D, driving cooling, piping, and mechanical plant designs for modular units and behind-the-meter systems. Own mechanical reference designs with revision-controlled, defensible documentation, set the technical bar through checked calculations and enforced standards, and review vendor packages. Hire, mentor, and delegate while personally tackling the hardest mechanical problems to help ship civilization-scale AI infrastructure.
Location: Austin, New York, Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead mechanical engineering for R&D, covering cooling, piping, and mechanical plant for modular units and behind-the-meter systems.
  • •Own mechanical reference designs, ensuring they are released, revision-controlled, and defensible to the megawatt.
  • •Set the technical bar by ensuring calculations are checked, standards are enforced, and vendor packages are reviewed.
  • •Grow the team by hiring, mentoring, and delegating while handling the hardest problems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 284,000 - 340,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Led mechanical design for data centers, power plants, or heavy industrial systems.
  • •Released mechanical packages that were built at scale.
  • •Checks calculations personally and catches what juniors miss.
  • •Qualified major mechanical equipment with vendors.
  • •Balances innovation against the schedule that ships.
Licenses:PE license

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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