Staff Software Engineer

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

• High ownership
• Full autonomy
• Velocity
• First principles
• Love of the game

Role Scope

• Build core primitives end to end
• Entity ownership, audit, authorization, orchestration
• Own the domain model
• Define interactions with the outside
• Interface with vendor systems and ingest the formats our domain actually speaks
• Make AI agents first-class operators of our systems

What We're Looking For

• You move toward ambiguity, not away from it
• You learn at a steep slope
• You have taste in abstraction
• You model domains with rigor earned the hard way
• You pull structure out of mess

Skill Set

• Fluent with AI tooling
• Workflow and orchestration engines (Temporal, Cadence, Airflow)
• Geospatial (KMZ/GIS) or BIM (Revit, IFC)
• Authorization and policy engines (OPA, Zanzibar-style, RBAC/ABAC)
• Audit or event-sourcing systems
• Go, TypeScript, and Postgres

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $250,000 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.