Mechanical Engineer, R&D Team Lead

The role

You will lead mechanical engineering for R&D including cooling, piping, and mechanical plant for modular units and behind-the-meter systems. You will own mechanical reference designs and grow the team through hiring and mentoring.

What you will do

• Lead mechanical engineering for R&D: cooling, piping, and mechanical plant for modular units and behind-the-meter systems
• Own the mechanical reference designs: released, revision-controlled, and defensible to the megawatt
• Set the technical bar: calcs checked, standards enforced, and vendor packages reviewed
• Grow the team: hire, mentor, and delegate while carrying the hardest problems

Required qualifications

• Led mechanical design for data centers, power plants, or heavy industrial systems
• Released mechanical packages that got built at scale
• Check calcs personally and catch what juniors miss
• Qualified major mechanical equipment with vendors
• Balance innovation against the schedule that ships

Nice to have

• Liquid cooling depth
• Chilled water plants
• PE license
• Modular construction

About the company

Fluidstack aims to deliver 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else by acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them. They focus on building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.