Resident Structural Engineer, Modular R&D
About The Position
The Modular Team is transforming the data center industry by treating it as a manufactured product. We engineer, build, and ship structural modules from a production line, moving away from traditional stick-built methods. This role is crucial in taking a first-of-a-kind modular data center product from released drawings to rate production on a live manufacturing line. You will engineer frames, enclosures, and lifting and transport structures designed to withstand fabrication, craning, road transport, and decades of service. A key aspect of this role is to rapidly close the loop between the factory floor and the design office, ensuring continuous improvement with each unit produced. You will also maintain configuration control as the product iterates at manufacturing speed. In this role, you will own the structural systems of the modular product, including frames, enclosures, and lifting and transport structures, from released drawings through rate production. You will be based on the Phoenix manufacturing line, walking the floor daily to identify and disposition fit-up and weld issues at the station where they occur. You will provide real-time structural support for the factory, answering RFIs the same day and engineering fixes into the next revision rather than deferring them. This includes running first-article reviews and fit checks in person as units are produced, documenting findings to drive drawing changes. You will also be responsible for feeding learnings from the line back into drawings, tolerances, and the Bill of Materials (BOM) to prevent recurring issues.
Requirements
- Engineered structures for complex physical products, modular construction, or heavy fabrication, hands-on, not from a review desk.
- Worked on a shop floor or fabrication line, and dispositioning a nonconformance with the line waiting is familiar work: use-as-is, rework, or stop, decided in the moment and defensible afterward.
- Your drawings build clean. Fabricators rarely call, and when they do, you fix the drawing rather than explain it away.
- Supported production launches of your own designs and stayed with them through the ugly early units.
- Iterate fast without losing configuration control: every floor fix lands back in the drawing, the tolerance stack, or the BOM.
Nice To Haves
- PE license
- Steel and sheet metal design
- Structural detailing standards (AISC, AWS)
- Weld inspection or NDE familiarity
- DFM instincts
Responsibilities
- Own the structural systems of the modular product on the line, frames, enclosures, and lifting and transport structures, from released drawings through rate production.
- Live on the Phoenix manufacturing line: walk the floor daily, catch fit-up and weld issues at the station where they happen, and disposition them on the spot.
- Run structural support for the factory in real time, answering RFIs same-day from the floor and engineering fixes into the next revision, not a someday backlog.
- Run first-article reviews and fit checks in person as units come down the line, with findings documented tightly enough to drive drawing changes.
- Close the loop to design: feed what the line learns back into drawings, tolerances, and the BOM so the same issue never surfaces twice.
Benefits
- We are committed to pay equity and transparency.
- Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
