Development Manager

About the role

Fluidstack exists to make humanity more free. 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.

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 Construction Team is tackling key problems: putting gigawatts in the ground faster than anyone has, delivering one of the largest data center buildouts of its kind with many sites running at once. Traditional construction management breaks at this scale, so we're building the model that replaces it — throwing out traditional construction and inventing how gigawatts get built. You'll strip out tools, layers of process, and administrative drag to win by solving the real problem and beating the goal, not by managing toward it. Productize the data center so we can build it a thousand times, turning one-off construction into a repeatable, modular build where the hundredth site goes up faster and cleaner than the first — that repeatability is the only way to reach the scale we're targeting.

Responsibilities

• Run technical due diligence on every site from Site Acquisitions' handoff to break ground, directing environmental and civil engineers through environmental site assessments, land and boundary surveys, and traffic impact studies.
• Make the go or no-go call on dirt: buildable, on time, on budget, with no deal-killers or permanent risks before we transact.
• Negotiate and organize contracts directly, joining risk-profile decisions and taking big commercials off leadership's plate.
• Bring on the civil engineer, architect, and GC, and own the master budget, milestone schedule, and floor access dates across five or more sites at once.

Requirements

• You've personally run technical due diligence on land and can walk site identification to break ground in order, from the first environmental assessments and land surveys on, saying what you did yourself at each step.