Fire Protection Engineer, Data Center Design
About The Position
Fluidstack is seeking a Fire Protection Engineer to join their Data Center Design Team. This role is critical in designing and implementing fire protection systems for large-scale data centers, ensuring safety and compliance. The engineer will lead the fire protection scope from concept through construction documents, working with various stakeholders including fire marshals and AHJs. The position involves designing systems like VESDA, addressable fire alarm, pre-action sprinklers, wet pipe, and clean agent suppression. A key aspect of the role is developing campus-level fire suppression strategies and coordinating with other engineering disciplines. The engineer will also review submittals, support commissioning, and provide input on live site operations. Fluidstack is focused on rapidly deploying compute infrastructure for AI and is looking for individuals with extreme ownership, a drive for velocity, and a first-principles approach.
Requirements
- Personally designed, specified, and stood up fire detection and suppression systems for mission-critical, industrial, or large commercial facilities.
- Hold a PE license in Fire Protection Engineering, or NICET Level III/IV certification in Fire Alarm Systems and Water-Based Systems.
- Negotiated code-compliant alternatives directly with fire marshals and AHJs on non-standard designs, and know how to keep permitting off the critical path.
- Thorough working knowledge of NFPA 75, 76, and 2001, and FM Global's data center loss prevention requirements, and can translate that code into decisions EPCs and operations teams can act on.
- Coordinate fire protection design with electrical, mechanical, and controls engineering so life safety systems integrate cleanly into the rest of the building.
- Write clearly enough that a system narrative, hydraulic calculation, or piece of AHJ correspondence still reads as the source of truth for a site years after it was written.
Nice To Haves
- FM-200 and Novec 1230 clean agent systems in data center environments.
- Experience in multiple state or municipal AHJ jurisdictions.
- Experience with hyperscale or colocation campus design.
- NFPA committee or code development involvement.
Responsibilities
- Own the fire protection scope of design packages from concept through construction documents across the data center portfolio, designing and specifying VESDA and addressable fire alarm, pre-action sprinkler, wet pipe, and clean agent suppression systems.
- Serve as Fluidstack's primary point of contact with local fire marshals and AHJs on every site, running plan reviews and negotiating code-compliant equivalencies on non-standard designs so permitting stays off the critical path.
- Develop campus-level fire suppression strategy, coordinating water supply, distribution, and system redundancy across multiple buildings and phases of a build-out.
- Review and approve fire protection submittals and shop drawings from EPC and equipment vendors, and validate third-party consultant designs for code compliance and consistency with Fluidstack standards before they advance to construction.
- Support commissioning of fire detection and suppression systems with the Commissioning Agent, resolving test failures before sign-off, and provide fire protection input on capacity additions, retrofits, and incident-driven remediation on live sites.
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
Education Level
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