Fluidstack

Austin, TX

Design Management, Team Lead at Fluidstack

ON-SITE MID
Posted 3 months ago
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Company snapshot

Fluidstack

FluidStack is the Airbnb of GPU compute, offering access to 50,000+ GPUs for AI and LLM training at a fraction of the cost of AWS/GCP.

E-commerce Information Technology & Services Publishing Technology
HQ
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Team size
11-50
Founded
2017

Quick Summary

Role Overview

This role leads design management across a portfolio of gigawatt-scale data center builds to ensure rapid delivery of AI infrastructure. You will manage design deliverables, consultants, and review cycles while maintaining high standards for constructability and cost.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead design management across the entire build portfolio
  • Set and enforce design schedules for architect and engineer firms
  • Manage design review processes for constructability and cost
  • Coordinate between design teams and field operations
  • Integrate site lessons into reference designs for future builds
  • Oversee consultants and design deliverables under one operating model

Requirements Snapshot

  • Experience leading design management for large industrial programs
  • Proven track record of holding firms to aggressive schedules
  • Ability to identify gaps across multiple engineering disciplines
  • Experience building efficient design review processes
  • Knowledge of data center design or modular delivery methods

Expected Impact

You will accelerate the deployment of frontier compute infrastructure by reducing design-to-energization timelines from years to months. By refining reference designs and streamlining review cycles, you will enable the company to scale to hundreds of gigawatts of capacity, directly influencing the global future of AI.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job 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 Capacity Delivery Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

  • Engineer gigawatts from drawing to energized, in months not years. Capacity Delivery owns technical execution across every build: the drawings, the field questions, and the engineering calls that keep multiple concurrent gigawatt sites moving.

  • Engineer data centers that go up in months, not years. At that pace rework is not an option: problems get caught on paper or they cost a data hall.

  • Design it once, build it a hundred times. Every site's lessons roll into the reference design on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs, so each build starts ahead of the last.

Role Scope

  • Lead design management across the build portfolio: every site's design deliverables, consultants, and review cycles under one operating model.

  • Set the design schedule per site and hold architect and engineer of record firms to it, escalating slips while recovery is cheap.

  • Run the design review machine so packages clear constructability, cost, and reference-design conformance in one pass.

  • Own the interface between design and the field: RFI trends feed design fixes, not just answers.

What We're Looking For

  • 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've led design management on large industrial or mission critical programs with multiple firms in flight.

  • You've held design firms to schedules they called aggressive, and they delivered.

  • You read across disciplines well enough to catch the cross-discipline gaps single-discipline reviewers miss.

  • You've built review processes that made packages better and faster at the same time.

  • Bonus: Data center design programs. Owner-side design management. Modular and DfMA delivery. BIM-based review workflows.

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 careers@fluidstack.io with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.

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