FluidStack

4 days ago

Category Manager, Mechanical (Data Center)

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Job Summary

Own the mechanical category for liquid-cooled data center builds, including CDUs, chillers, pumps, dry coolers, and piping packages. Negotiate multi-year supply agreements with mechanical OEMs across price, lead time, and factory capacity, and qualify/dual-source platforms to enable fast second sources. Partner with manufacturing and design to ensure equipment specs freeze early enough to match market lead times.

Location: Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Key Responsibilities

•Own the data center mechanical category for liquid-cooled builds (CDUs, chillers, pumps, dry coolers, and piping packages).
•Negotiate supply agreements with mechanical OEMs covering price, lead time, and factory capacity across a multi-year pipeline.
•Dual-source CDU and chiller platforms and drive qualification work to make second sources usable.
•Coordinate with manufacturing and design to freeze equipment specs early enough to buy at market lead times.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 239,000 - 278,000 annually

Key Requirements

•Source major mechanical equipment (chillers, CDUs, AHUs, pumps) for data center or industrial programs.
•Negotiate with mechanical OEMs on multi-year committed volumes.
•Challenge a specification or price using substantive knowledge of liquid cooling equipment.
•Manage factory schedules and witness points to hold delivery dates.
•Know how to dual-source CDU and chiller platforms and drive qualification so the second source is usable.

Experience:Data centerIndustrial programsLiquid cooling

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

4 days ago

Category Manager, Mechanical (Data Center)

✓ Verified Job

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

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 10 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Key Responsibilities

•Own the data center mechanical category for liquid-cooled builds (CDUs, chillers, pumps, dry coolers, and piping packages).
•Negotiate supply agreements with mechanical OEMs covering price, lead time, and factory capacity across a multi-year pipeline.
•Dual-source CDU and chiller platforms and drive qualification work to make second sources usable.
•Coordinate with manufacturing and design to freeze equipment specs early enough to buy at market lead times.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 239,000 - 278,000 annually

Key Requirements

•Source major mechanical equipment (chillers, CDUs, AHUs, pumps) for data center or industrial programs.
•Negotiate with mechanical OEMs on multi-year committed volumes.
•Challenge a specification or price using substantive knowledge of liquid cooling equipment.
•Manage factory schedules and witness points to hold delivery dates.
•Know how to dual-source CDU and chiller platforms and drive qualification so the second source is usable.

Experience:Data centerIndustrial programsLiquid cooling

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