Principal Operations Engineer, Network

Fluidstack

1d•$258,000 - $300,000•Hybrid

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 and designing data centers to operating them. The company is focused on speed and scale, differentiating itself by its ability to deploy frontier compute infrastructure rapidly. They are looking for individuals who care deeply about this mission and are driven by a desire to expand human freedom through AI. The Data Center Operations Team operates at the scale of a nation, not just a building, accelerating towards 100 GW by the end of the decade. This involves running infrastructure the size of a G7 nation and managing operations within live construction zones, adapting in real-time. The team is responsible for writing the operational playbook, setting standards, shaping the operating model, and growing the team significantly as the company scales.

Requirements

A career spent operating mission-critical network topologies at scale, with significant time as the senior technical voice on a site, campus, or fleet.
Experience in IP network operations, as well as optical networking.
Experience with TCP/IP and network routing protocols (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS) and the devices of the physical infrastructure.
Authored and executed high-risk MOPs and led root cause analysis on significant network events through closure.
Ability to hold OEMs, ODMs, and deployment partners to a standard, and enforce it without breaking the relationship.
Clear writing skills (for health assessments, RCAs, design feedback).
Ability to teach, lifting the technical readiness of every team around you.

Nice To Haves

Hyperscale or large HPC fleets supporting thousands of end points.
Linux and hardware management tooling.
Standing up new sites from handover to steady state.
Scripting for fleet-scale operations.

Responsibilities

Serve as the most senior technical authority for the operational network fleet across the hyperscale AI data center portfolio: switches, routers, cabling (copper and fiber), optics.
Lead site assessments and operational audits, and drive the technical readiness of the network ops team ahead of site activation.
Review network platforms and integration designs from an operational lens, and feed learnings back into network engineering, deployment, and supply chain as the build model becomes productionized.
Author, approve, and execute high-risk network MOPs and change records in live production, and lead fleet-wide root cause analysis on disruptions to closure.
Hold OEMs, ODMs, and service vendors accountable to a standard, including flawed RMA and integration processes, without burning the relationship.
Act as the connective tissue and force multiplier across network operations, network engineering, compute operations, facilities, supply chain, and customer-facing teams.