Engineering Generalist, R&D

Fluidstack • Austin, TX

1d • $202,000 - $261,000

About The Position

Fluidstack’s R&D organization designs future generations of its data center product, including modular builds, cooling and power architectures, and the pipeline for moving prototypes into deployable capacity. The team works across mechanical, electrical, controls, and compute engineering, partnering with manufacturing and supply chain to advance designs from first article to repeatable production at gigawatt scale.

The Engineering Generalist will be the right hand to the Head of Development Engineering, working alongside the head of R&D to take on high-priority problems and drive them to decisions or delivered results. The role leads cross-organizational initiatives from initial scoping through completion, coordinating across engineering teams and their leaders to keep projects, pilots, and R&D efforts aligned on priorities, owners, and dates. It also develops first-order analysis to inform technical direction and manages the R&D leadership operating cadence, including agendas, decisions, action items, and status reports that identify slippage and recovery needs.

Fluidstack emphasizes autonomy, urgency, first-principles reasoning, and high-intensity work. The company is focused on delivering large-scale compute infrastructure for AI and operates across hardware and software, including acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them.

Requirements

• 3–7 years of experience in engineering, technical program management, consulting, or operations; ideally in hardware, energy, or infrastructure.
• An engineering or technical degree, or equivalent hands-on technical depth.
• Comfort participating in engineering discussions and building first-pass models and analysis.
• Clear writing and the ability to keep senior people informed proactively.
• Ability to take on varied tasks, learn new domains quickly, and be transparent about knowledge gaps.
• Low ego and self-directed approach, including managing one’s work and upward, and keeping work moving without being asked.
• Willingness to work hard and pursue a steep learning curve with broad exposure to running an R&D organization.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at a startup or on a first-of-a-kind project.
• Exposure to power, cooling, or data center systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the right hand to the Head of Development Engineering and take high-priority problems through to decisions or delivered results.
• Own cross-team initiatives from initial scoping through completion, handling analysis, vendor calls, schedules, and follow-up as needed.
• Coordinate with engineering teams and their leaders to align projects, pilots, and R&D efforts on priorities, owners, and dates.
• Develop first-order analysis to help leadership set the company’s technical direction and communicate decisions to the teams responsible for execution.
• Own the R&D leadership cadence, including agendas, decisions, action items, and status reports identifying slippage and recovery needs.
• Keep senior people informed through clear writing and proactive communication.
• Take on tasks the team needs, learn new domains quickly, and keep work moving autonomously.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed