Principal Operations Engineer, Mechanical

🕒 May 29

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $258k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍🔧 Mechanical Engineer

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FluidStack

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence • Cloud Computing

FluidStack is a company that provides GPU supercomputing infrastructure for AI labs. It offers on-demand access to thousands of Nvidia GPUs, enabling large-scale AI training and inference. The company specializes in deploying and managing large GPU clusters with support for technologies like Kubernetes and Slurm, ensuring high availability and excellent support. FluidStack provides a fully managed cloud infrastructure, helping AI companies to focus on developing models without worrying about the underlying hardware. They emphasize performance and cost-efficiency, offering services that scale to thousands of GPUs with high uptime and rapid response times.

📋 Description

• Serve as the most senior technical authority for operational mechanical and cooling infrastructure across the hyperscale AI data center fleet • Lead site assessments and operational audits • Drive team technical readiness ahead of site activation • Review designs and specifications from an operational perspective • Feed operational learnings back into design and manufacturing as the build model becomes productized • Provide senior technical guidance on chillers, cooling towers, CDUs, and liquid-cooling architectures • Own mechanical operational readiness and commissioning-to-operations handover for new sites • Author and approve high-risk mechanical MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs • Lead root cause analysis on significant cooling events • Help establish operating standards, shape the operating model, and grow the operations team

🎯 Requirements

• Career experience working on critical mechanical systems • Command of chilled water, chillers, cooling towers, CRAH/CRAC, pumps, CDUs, and direct liquid cooling in live environments • Experience authoring and executing high-risk mechanical MOPs • Experience leading root cause analysis on significant cooling events • Ability to assess operational readiness at any site and audit operational posture • Ability to teach and build teams’ mechanical readiness ahead of activation • Bonus: experience with hyperscale or large colocation environments at hundreds of MW • Bonus: direct liquid cooling and CDU operations experience • Bonus: knowledge of ASHRAE TC 9.9 • Bonus: chilled water plant optimization experience • Bonus: Uptime Institute experience • Authorization to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in the form of restricted stock units • Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms • Compensation discussions for candidates whose requirements are not met • Potential adjusted terms and meaningful equity for outstanding candidates