Production Engineer, Facilities Team Lead
Leads a team operating and scaling data center infrastructure for AI, balancing rapid deployment with flawless uptime while hiring and mentoring engineers in OT/IT hybrid roles.
- Compensation
- $224K–$344K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
- You bring 4+ years of experience managing engineering teams shipping into operational environments.
- You've balanced roadmap work against interrupt-driven site support without letting either starve.
- You've hired for rare hybrid skill sets and built people into them when the market had none.
- Your teams keep shipping when the pager is loud.
- Bonus: Facilities or industrial software. Data center operations exposure. SRE practices. OT systems familiarity.
Full description
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 we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.
We're 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
- Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.
- Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
- Reason from 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.
- Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.
The Data Center Operations TeamExamples of key problems the team is working on
- Operate at the scale of a nation, not a building. The fleet you run will draw more power than some countries, on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs.
- Fly the plane while it's being built. Sites come online in pieces, and you keep the live ones running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
- Write the playbook, don't inherit it. No prior operations org has run at this speed and scale, so the standards you set become the standard.
Role Scope
- Lead the facilities production engineering team: hiring, priorities, delivery, and on-call health.
- Own the roadmap connecting site needs to engineering output, sequenced by fleet impact.
- Run the operating rhythm with site operators so the team builds what shifts actually need.
- Grow engineers across the OT/IT boundary, a skill set the market barely produces.