Plumbing Engineer, R&D

The role

You will own plumbing design for data center buildings and prefabricated modules. This includes designing domestic, process, make-up water, condenser water piping, drainage, and stormwater systems from concept through construction documents.

What you will do

• Design domestic water, process and make-up water, condenser water piping, drainage, and stormwater systems
• Run hydraulic calculations
• Select pumps, valves, backflow preventers, water heaters, and storage
• Write specifications for vendors and contractors
• Keep designs compliant with plumbing, mechanical, and health codes
• Manage permit and inspection questions
• Integrate with mechanical, water-quality, and controls engineers
• Review contractor submittals and shop drawings
• Answer RFIs
• Walk installations through commissioning

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of plumbing or piping design engineering on industrial, mission-critical, or large commercial facilities
• At least one project taken through construction documents and commissioning
• Working knowledge of the IPC or UPC, IMC, and local amendments
• Knowledge of how to get a design through permit review
• Hands-on with hydraulic calculations, pump and pipe sizing, backflow protection, and water storage design
• Fluency in Revit or AutoCAD MEP and a hydraulic modeling tool
• Experience reviewing contractor submittals and answering RFIs
• Ability to write specifications a contractor can bid without a meeting

Nice to have

• Professional Engineer license
• CPD certification
• Data center or liquid-cooling plant experience
• Water treatment or industrial process piping background

About the company

Fluidstack designs, builds, and operates data centers to deliver compute infrastructure for AI. They focus on delivering gigawatt-scale compute through hardware and software teams.