Electrical Equipment Design, Technical Lead

Fluidstack•New York, NY

7d•$208,000 - $263,000

About The Position

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, focusing on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else. This involves rethinking every layer of the stack, from acquiring power to designing and operating data centers. The company operates with a philosophy of extreme ownership, velocity, first principles, and a passion for the problem space. The Product Engineering, Electrical Equipment Team is responsible for defining the electrical equipment that powers the largest AI compute buildout in history. Key problems include designing purpose-built LV/MV switchgear, BBU, and busway for AI data centers, achieving NRTL certification on aggressive schedules, making strategic decisions on in-house design versus OEM collaboration, and converging product lineups to minimize SKUs while covering site demand.

Requirements

12+ years in switchgear and electrical equipment design, with time leading design teams at an OEM such as Powell, IEM, Eaton, ABB, or equivalent.
Personally taken gear through UL 891/1558 or IEC 61439 listing, including witness testing at KEMA or PowerTech-class labs.
Lived through a short-circuit test failure, driven it to root cause, and led the redesign that passed the retest.
Owned product architecture across an LV/MV lineup, including BBU integration and the certification path each integration option implies.
Knows how to structure a 9-person gear team: which seats can double up, which can’t, and where the first hire goes when the lineup expands.
Can defend a ratings philosophy, short-circuit, withstand, and temperature-rise, against both a test lab and a cost target.

Nice To Haves

BBU or energy storage integration into gear
Busway product experience
Arc-resistant designs
Deep NRTL relationships

Responsibilities

Own product architecture across the LV/MV switchgear, BBU, and busway lineup, including the frame-size and bus-rating matrix that covers 90% of demand with the fewest SKUs.
Run the certification strategy end to end: NRTL relationships, test campaign sequencing, lab bookings, and budgets that account for the real cost of a failed shot.
Lead the gear design team across EE, ME, controls, and drafting, with team structure and staffing decisions that hold up as the lineup grows.
Set the ratings philosophy for the lineup: short-circuit, withstand, and temperature-rise design standards rigorous enough to pass witness testing on the first campaign.
Make the make-vs-buy recommendation per product category, including the call that we shouldn't build a category at all, backed by cost, schedule, and certification-risk math.