Architect, Deployment Engineering
About The Position
Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, focusing on delivering massive amounts of compute infrastructure faster than anyone else. The Deployment Engineering Team is crucial in turning design blueprints into operational sites, ensuring that infrastructure is built, integrated, and energized reliably. This team bridges the gap between engineering completion and operational readiness, driving continuous improvement in deployment processes and ensuring that infrastructure is reliable from day one. The team's work involves managing the transition from design to a live construction schedule, making each subsequent site deployment faster and cleaner than the last, and ensuring that commissioned infrastructure is immediately operational for AI compute workloads.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture or a related field.
- Experience as an owner's representative or developer-side architect on data center or large-scale mission-critical construction, with on-site accountability through substantial completion and certificate of occupancy.
- Proficiency in IBC, IFC, occupancy classification, egress requirements, and fire-rated assembly construction to resolve code interpretation issues with AHJs in the field.
- Experience managing the RFI and submittal process on active construction sites, coordinating contractors, the engineer of record, and internal stakeholders under schedule pressure.
- Experience maintaining FM Global envelope and life-safety compliance through contractor-driven changes during active construction.
- Ability to travel extensively to deployment sites across multiple jurisdictions, 50 percent or more of the time.
Nice To Haves
- Licensed Architect (RA).
- Experience on hyperscale data center or large-scale industrial construction sites as an owner's representative.
- Familiarity with FM Global DS 1-28 and DS 1-29 roof and envelope standards.
- Proficiency in Procore, Bluebeam, or ACC for construction management and field documentation.
- Experience with modular or prefab construction programs and their deployment conformance challenges.
Responsibilities
- Own architectural conformance across active construction sites, verifying that building envelope, life-safety assemblies, and spatial layouts match approved specifications and closing deviations before they impact operations or permitting.
- Drive AHJ and permitting execution at each deployment site, including inspections, code interpretation questions, and certificate of occupancy sequencing, to keep permitting on schedule.
- Manage the architectural RFI and submittal process during active construction, coordinating with the engineer of record and contractors to resolve field conflicts without slowing the build.
- Enforce FM Global envelope and life-safety compliance through contractor-driven field conditions, tracking and closing open items before substantial completion.
- Own the architectural punch list at each site from substantial completion through final acceptance, and feed field observations back into prototype specifications and deployment standards.
Benefits
- Offers equity in the form of stock options.
- Commitment to pay equity and transparency.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
