Compute Engineer, R&D Technical Lead

FluidStack
Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 261,000 - 310,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Extreme ownership","First principles","Mentorship","Debugging","Root cause analysis"]

Own compute qualification in the lab: set technical direction for qualification methods, tooling, and hardware standards; personally drive first-silicon and new-platform qualifications, including hard-to-explain failures. Build automation with test harnesses and data pipelines to multiply lab throughput, and represent the lab to vendors and the fleet. Bring deep hardware validation or systems engineering experience, failure analysis rooted in root cause, and mentorship across the debugging stack.

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Compute Engineer, R&D Technical Lead

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Job Summary

Own compute qualification in the lab: set technical direction for qualification methods, tooling, and hardware standards; personally drive first-silicon and new-platform qualifications, including hard-to-explain failures. Build automation with test harnesses and data pipelines to multiply lab throughput, and represent the lab to vendors and the fleet. Bring deep hardware validation or systems engineering experience, failure analysis rooted in root cause, and mentorship across the debugging stack.
Location: Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set technical direction for compute qualification: methods, tooling, and lab hardware standards.
  • •Own the hardest qualifications, including first silicon, new platforms, and unexplained failures.
  • •Build automation with test harnesses and data pipelines to increase lab throughput.
  • •Represent the labs to vendors and the fleet as the technical voice on readiness.
  • •Drive qualification results from hardware validation into actionable shipped findings.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 261,000 - 310,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Have been the senior technical voice in hardware validation or systems engineering.
  • •Qualify early hardware/engineering samples/first-run systems and ship findings.
  • •Build test automation that others still use.
  • •Perform failure analyses that reach root cause (not plausible).
  • •Mentor engineers up the debugging stack.
Skills:Extreme ownershipFirst principlesMentorshipDebuggingRoot cause analysis

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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