Design Release Engineer, Modular R&D

About the company

We exist to make humanity more free. Technology has historically given people more time for the things they want to do, instead of things they have 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. 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. We hire people who care deeply about this problem space.

How we operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• 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.

The Modular Team

The Modular team designs and builds factory-produced, serialized data center modules that ship as manufactured products, not construction projects.

Key problems the team is working on

• Turn first-of-a-kind modular data center designs into repeatable, serialized production builds without losing engineering intent between revisions.
• Keep design iteration fast while units at different build states move through the fab floor, in inventory, and at site simultaneously.
• Integrate power, cooling, and structural subsystems into a single releasable product definition that manufacturing, supply chain, and quality can all build against.
• Close the loop between as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained configurations so field units can be serviced and upgraded against accurate records.

Responsibilities

• Own the release process from engineering to production: drawings, BOMs, and specs complete, approved, and released to manufacturing at the right revision, every time.
• Run configuration and change management: administer ECOs and ECNs, control revision history, and disposition changes across in-flight units, inventory, and supplier orders with serialized modules at different build states.
• Keep BOM integrity across systems: engineering and manufacturing BOMs accurate, the PLM system of record syncing cleanly to ERP and MES, and discrepancies between as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained resolved rather than logged.
• Gate release readiness: drawing checks, tolerance and spec completeness, long-lead procurement flags, and DFM feedback from the fab floor confirmed incorporated before anything releases.
• Drive release communication across design, supply chain, quality, and production: publish release schedules and change impacts so procurement and the shop floor never build to stale revisions.

Requirements

• You've owned release or configuration management for manufactured hardware: modules, vehicles, machinery, or similar serialized products.
• You've administered ECOs across live production and know how to disposition a change across units already in build, sitting in inventory, and already shipped, including deciding effectivity and living with the consequences.
• Your BOMs reconcile: as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained stay in sync because you keep them that way, not because nobody has checked.
• You catch immature releases before the floor does: incomplete drawings, missing tolerances, and unspecified requirements don't get past you.
• You've untangled an as-designed vs. as-built mess at a company scaling faster than its release discipline, and you know exactly what breaks when that discipline is missing.
• You work across disciplines instead of throwing problems over walls: design, supply chain, quality, and production all trust your revision state because you keep them informed before it matters.

Nice-to-have skills

• Hands-on with PLM platforms (Arena, Teamcenter, Windchill), ERP and MES integration (NetSuite, SAP, or similar).
• Experience with drawing standards (ASME Y14.5).
• A manufacturing or quality engineering background.

Pay

Compensation range: $164,000 – $206,000