Principal Operations Engineer, Electrical

Fluidstack

7d•$220,000 - $260,000•Onsite

About The Position

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, aiming to deliver 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else. This involves rethinking every layer of the stack, from acquiring power to designing, building, and operating data centers. The company operates with a philosophy of extreme ownership, velocity, first principles, and a deep passion for the problem space. The Data Center Operations Team is at the forefront of this mission, working on problems such as operating at the scale of a nation, managing live construction zones, and building operational playbooks from scratch. This role is critical in ensuring the operational readiness and excellence of the company's hyperscale AI data center fleet.

Requirements

A career running mission-critical electrical systems, with experience coming up through the trades, the field, or both.
Command of the operational electrical stack: switchgear, UPS, generators, paralleling, ATS/STS, PDUs, and EPMS, in live critical environments.
Experience authoring and executing high-risk electrical MOPs and leading root cause analysis on significant events through closure.
Ability to walk into any site and assess operational readiness, audit the posture, and raise the standard.
Ability to teach and build the technical readiness of the teams around you ahead of activation.

Nice To Haves

Hyperscale or large colocation experience at hundreds of MW.
NETA and NFPA 70E expertise.
Experience with EPMS platforms.
Arc-flash and electrical safety program ownership.
Uptime Institute knowledge.

Responsibilities

Serve as the most senior technical authority for operational electrical infrastructure across the hyperscale AI data center fleet.
Lead site assessments and operational audits, and drive the technical readiness of teams ahead of site activation.
Review designs and specifications from an operational lens, and feed operational learnings back into design and manufacturing as the build model becomes productized.
Own electrical operational readiness and the commissioning-to-operations handover for new sites.
Author and approve high-risk electrical MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs, and lead root cause analysis on significant electrical events.
Act as the connective tissue between operations, design, construction, hardware, and EHS, and a force multiplier across cluster leads and field engineers.