Principal Hardware Operations Lead — Data Center Operations

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.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership
• Velocity
• First principles
• Love of the game

Role Scope

• Serve as the most senior technical authority for the operational hardware fleet across the hyperscale AI data center portfolio: GPU systems, servers, storage, and supporting hardware.
• Lead site assessments and operational audits, and drive the technical readiness of teams ahead of site activation.
• Review hardware platforms and integration designs from an operational lens, and feed learnings back into hardware engineering, deployment, and supply chain as the build model becomes productized.
• Author, approve, and execute high-risk hardware MOPs and change records in live production, and lead fleet-wide root cause analysis to closure.
• Hold OEMs, ODMs, and service vendors accountable to a standard, including flawed RMA and integration processes, without burning the relationship.
• Write clearly (health assessments, RCAs, design feedback) and teach, lifting the technical readiness of every team around you.

What We're Looking For

• You've spent a career operating mission-critical hardware at scale, with significant time as the senior technical voice on a site, campus, or fleet.
• You command GPU systems, server platforms, storage, firmware lifecycle, and hardware diagnostics, earned in the field rather than from a textbook.
• You've authored and executed high-risk MOPs and led root cause analysis on significant hardware events through closure.
• You hold OEMs, ODMs, and deployment partners to a standard, and you enforce it without breaking the relationship.
• You write clearly (health assessments, RCAs, design feedback) and you teach, lifting the technical readiness of every team around you.

Bonus

• Hyperscale or large HPC fleets supporting thousands of accelerators.
• Liquid-cooled compute operations.
• Linux and hardware management tooling.
• Standing up new sites from handover to steady state.
• Scripting for fleet-scale 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.

Career Information

• The base salary range for this position is $220,000 - $260,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
• This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting.
• Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.
• We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

EEO Statement

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.

Contact Information

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