FluidStack
Resident Structural Engineer, Modular R&D
About this role
Fluidstack is seeking a Resident Structural Engineer to oversee the structural systems of a first-of-a-kind modular data center product through manufacturing production in Phoenix. You'll own frames, enclosures, and transport structures from design release through full-rate production, working directly on the factory floor to resolve fit-up, welding, and fabrication issues in real time.
What you'll do
- Own structural systems of modular product on manufacturing line, from released drawings through rate production
- Work on Phoenix factory floor daily, identifying and dispositioning fit-up, weld, and fabrication issues at the source
- Respond to Request for Information (RFI) from fabrication floor same-day and engineer fixes into next revision
- Conduct first-article reviews and fit checks on units coming down the line with tightly documented findings
- Feed manufacturing learnings back into drawings, tolerances, and bill of materials to prevent recurring issues
- Support production launch and iterate designs at manufacturing speed while maintaining configuration control
What they're looking for
- Structural design for complex physical products or modular construction
- Heavy fabrication and shop floor experience
- Steel and sheet metal design
- Structural detailing standards (AISC, AWS)
- Weld inspection or non-destructive evaluation (NDE)
- Design for Manufacturing (DFM)
- Technical drawing and tolerance stack management
- Configuration control and change management
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FluidStack
FluidStack builds AI infrastructure at scale, developing data centers and warehouse operations designed to handle gigawatt-capacity compute deployment. The company is hiring for warehouse engineers, data center operations specialists, product engineers, and people leaders to support rapid infrastructure expansion across multiple sites.
- Website
- fluidstack.io
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a time you caught a structural design issue on a factory floor and how you resolved it with the line running.
- Describe your experience supporting a production launch of your own designs—what went wrong, and how did you handle the early units?