Estimator, Modular R&D
About The Position
Fluidstack is seeking an Estimator for their Modular R&D team. The company's mission is to make humanity more free by deploying frontier compute infrastructure for AI faster than anyone else. This role is crucial in building and owning the cost model for the modular data center product, covering all assembly scopes. The estimator will produce estimates at every design release, price design alternatives quickly, interrogate vendor quotes, and reconcile estimates against actuals to refine the cost model. The ideal candidate will have experience in estimating construction scopes, building robust cost models, reconciling estimates with actuals, and working with design engineers in early-stage product development.
Requirements
- Personally estimated mechanical, electrical, or modular construction scopes: takeoffs, unit pricing, vendor pricing, and a final number you stood behind when the project was won or lost.
- Built cost models other people could run without you in the room, and they held up.
- Reconciled estimate versus actual and changed your assumptions when the data said you were wrong.
- Priced options for engineers in the middle of a design decision, delivering a usable number in hours when the decision couldn't wait.
- Know where estimates fail (scope gaps, labor productivity, escalation, freight) and have caught those failures before they priced a bid.
- Worked directly with design engineers early in product development, where drawings are incomplete and the estimate still has to be right about what matters.
Nice To Haves
- Data center or mission-critical estimating.
- Modular or offsite manufacturing cost experience.
- NECA or MCAA labor units.
- Estimating platforms beyond spreadsheets.
- Early-stage R&D or product cost work.
Responsibilities
- Build and own the cost model for the modular data center product, covering every assembly across structural, mechanical, electrical, and controls scopes.
- Produce estimates at every design release so the program always knows what the product costs before it commits to build.
- Price design alternatives in days, giving engineers cost facts on trade-offs like cooling configuration, electrical distribution, and skid versus site-built scope.
- Interrogate vendor quotes line by line with supply chain, and build should-cost models for the equipment categories that dominate unit cost.
- Reconcile estimates against actuals after each build and fold the variance back into the model, so the next estimate is tighter than the last.
Benefits
- Commitment to pay equity and transparency.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
