Operations and Delivery Engineering Lead, Critical Facilities

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants.

There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

We are seeking an experienced Operations and Delivery Engineering Lead to own the engineering scope of our data centers across their full life cycle — from sites under construction, through turnover, to all subsequent engineering work performed on live infrastructure. This is a senior, people-management role spanning mechanical/cooling, electrical/power, controls/BMS, and fire/life safety.

You will lead a multi-disciplinary team of engineers who own technical support of sites under construction, support the commissioning effort through turnover, and act as the engineering owner for any work performed on the building once it is live — additions, modifications, retrofits, controls changes, capacity moves, and incident-driven fixes. The construction-phase presence is deliberate: in partnership with Design Engineering, the team builds a thorough, first-hand understanding of how each building is put together and how it is intended to operate, so that by the time it goes live the engineers who will own its life cycle already know it inside and out.

You chair the site Change Control Board (CCB), where you approve technical changes to data center systems and the way they operate. You do not run day-to-day operations — that sits with the Critical Facilities Operations team — and you do not own design or commissioning — those sit with Design Engineering and the Commissioning Agent — but you set the engineering bar both functions execute against and serve as the engineering escalation point when something on site doesn’t behave the way it was designed to.

You partner closely with Design Engineering, Construction, Commissioning Agents, Critical Facilities Operations, Capacity Planning, and equipment vendors. You are equally comfortable walking a job site with a GC, red-lining a one-line diagram, reviewing a Sequence of Operations, chairing a CCB, and standing up an engineering bridge during a complex incident.

This role requires approximately 50% travel to live job sites and data centers.

Team Leadership & People Management

• Lead, coach, and develop a multi-disciplinary team of delivery and lifecycle engineers; own hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and retention.

• Set the technical bar across disciplines and ensure each engineer has clear ownership across the projects, buildings, and systems in their portfolio.

• Plan and prioritize the team’s workload across construction support, commissioning support, lifecycle engineering work on live infrastructure, and engineering escalations from Operations.

• Build and maintain an on-call rotation that provides qualified engineering support to Operations and to active construction sites when issues exceed the operating team’s authority.

• Foster a strong safety culture and a blameless, learning-oriented approach to incidents, near-misses, and commissioning findings.

Construction & Delivery Engineering

• Own technical support of sites under construction in partnership with Design Engineering; embed engineers as the on-site technical resource across mechanical, electrical, controls, and fire/life safety scopes.

• Use the construction phase to develop a deep, first-hand understanding…