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Fluidstack is on a mission to accelerate civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, aiming to ensure AI expands human freedom. This Principal Operations Engineer, Hardware role is critical to their success, demanding deep, practical experience in operating hyperscale AI data centers. If you are a seasoned hardware operations expert driven by a passion for this mission and possess the technical judgment and leadership skills to ensure reliability at scale, this is a unique opportunity to make a profound impact.
About Fluidstack
Fluidstack is dedicated to making humanity more free by building AI compute infrastructure faster than anyone else. They are rethinking every layer of the stack, from power acquisition to data center operations, driven by speed and scale. They hire individuals who care deeply about this problem space.
About the Role
We are seeking a Principal Operations Engineer, Hardware to be the senior technical authority for the operational hardware fleet across our hyperscale AI data center portfolio. This role ensures the reliability, maintenance, and continuous improvement of GPU systems, servers, and supporting hardware. You will act as the technical arm of senior operations leadership, leading site assessments, driving technical readiness, reviewing hardware designs, and feeding operational learnings back into engineering and supply chain processes. You will be a force multiplier and the connective tissue between various operational and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- 10+ years of hands-on experience operating mission-critical hardware infrastructure, with at least 5 years as the senior technical voice on a site, campus, or fleet.
- Data center operations experience strongly preferred; hyperscale, large HPC, cloud, or other mission-critical compute infrastructure experience considered.
- Deep working command of GPU systems, server platforms, storage infrastructure, firmware lifecycle management, and hardware diagnostics — earned in the field.
- Demonstrated ability to author, approve, and execute high-risk MOPs and change records in live production environments.
- A track record of leading root cause analysis on significant hardware events and driving corrective actions.
- A track record of holding OEMs, ODMs, service vendors, and deployment partners accountable.
- Strong written communication skills for operational health assessments, RCAs, procedure reviews, and design review feedback.
- Comfort operating as the senior technical voice across operations, hardware engineering, network, facilities, supply chain, and customer-facing teams.
- Willingness to travel extensively across the fleet (50-75%).
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- Hyperscale or large-scale compute operational experience supporting thousands of servers and accelerator systems.
- Direct experience operating modern GPU platforms at production scale.
- Strong working knowledge of Linux administration, hardware management tooling, and production troubleshooting workflows.
- Experience supporting liquid-cooled compute infrastructure.
- Experience operating across multiple sites or as part of a global fleet operations function.
- Experience standing up new sites from deployment handover through steady-state.
- Experience contributing operational requirements into hardware platform decisions, reference architectures, or productized data center builds.
- Scripting and automation experience in support of fleet-scale hardware operations.
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
- Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
- The base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $250,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.
Equal Employment Opportunity
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.
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