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 weve ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who dont share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

Were 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!

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.

• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.

• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking no egos the best idea wins.

• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

The Controls Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Deliver the controls behind 50GW of data centers this decade.

• Own real-time load control and MEP and behind-the-meter integration.

• Automate Level 4 and Level 5 commissioning.

• Drive autonomous robotic deployment.

Role Scope

• Lead the controls design development team owning the template designs SOOs points lists BOMs and Division 25 specifications that every modular data center build inherits.

• Set the technical direction for controls design deciding the standards platforms and reference architectures the whole fleet builds from.

• Drive design decisions to resolution across mechanical electrical commissioning and construction so controls design is never the thing holding up a sites schedule.

• Grow the team hiring controls engineers and raising the bar on the design work they produce.

• Own the quality and repeatability of every design package that leaves the team so the hundredth site is designed faster and cleaner than the first.
  

What Were Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people so if you dont fit this role exactly tell us where you would.

• Youve led a controls or design engineering team owning both the technical output and the people producing it.

• Youve set controls design standards reference architectures or specifications that others built from across multiple projects not just delivered your own designs.

• Youve authored or owned Division 25 integrated automation specifications and you know what separates a spec that holds up in the field from one that generates change orders.

• Youve written sequences of operations and seen them through to working code so you can tell when a design is genuinely buildable and not just correct on paper.

• You make design decisions fast and defend them across mechanical electrical and construction stakeholders who each want something different.

• Youve hired controls engineers and grown people from competent to excellent and other teams trust the work your team ships.

• Bonus: Modular or productized data center delivery. Data center mechanical and electrical systems (chiller plants CRAH/CRAC fan wall units switchgear). BMS and SCADA platforms over BACnet and Modbus. CSI MasterFormat and Division 25 authorship. Building a controls design function up from a small team.

Compensation: $250000 - $300000 per year depending on experience skills qualifications and location. Offers equity in the form of stock options.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email please email with your resume/CV the role youve applied for and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.

Required Experience:

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