Mechanical Engineer, R&D

FluidStack
Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 203,000 - 232,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: ["Extreme ownership","First principles thinking","Velocity","Attention to detail"]

Design and engineer mechanical systems for AI compute data centers, owning cooling distribution, piping, and heat rejection for modular units. Perform hydraulics, heat transfer, and equipment sizing calculations end to end. Specify, evaluate, and integrate major cooling equipment through vendor packages (CDUs, pumps, dry coolers). Support prototypes and first builds by reconciling test data to design and validating against commissioning or testing results.

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Mechanical Engineer, R&D

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Job Summary

Design and engineer mechanical systems for AI compute data centers, owning cooling distribution, piping, and heat rejection for modular units. Perform hydraulics, heat transfer, and equipment sizing calculations end to end. Specify, evaluate, and integrate major cooling equipment through vendor packages (CDUs, pumps, dry coolers). Support prototypes and first builds by reconciling test data to design and validating against commissioning or testing results.
Location: Austin, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Engineer mechanical systems in the reference design, including cooling distribution, piping, and heat rejection for modular units.
  • •Run hydraulics, heat transfer, and equipment sizing calculations end to end.
  • •Develop vendor packages by specifying, evaluating, and integrating CDUs, pumps, and dry coolers.
  • •Support prototypes and first builds by reconciling test data against the design.
  • •Validate designs against commissioning or test data and ensure P&IDs are correctly represented.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 203,000 - 232,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Designed mechanical or HVAC systems for data centers or industrial plants.
  • •Owned hydraulic and thermal calculations (not vendor-provided).
  • •Specified and integrated major cooling equipment.
  • •Validated designs against commissioning or test data.
  • •Able to draw clean P&IDs and ensure they are implemented correctly.
Skills:Extreme ownershipFirst principles thinkingVelocityAttention to detail
Tech Stack:RevitCADP&IDsASHRAE

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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