Structural Engineer, R&D

Fluidstack • Austin, TX

6d • $237,000 - $283,000

About The Position

Fluidstack’s Civil, Structural and Architectural R&D team designs standardized buildings, foundations, and modular structures for gigawatt-scale AI data centers. The team engineers and proves repeatable designs, then provides delivery teams with packages that can be built without reinventing the design at each site.

The Structural Engineer owns structural calculations and detailed designs for template buildings, equipment supports, skids, and modular structures. The role covers gravity, lateral, foundation, lifting, and transport analyses; fabrication-ready drawings, connection details, and specifications; and standard details, load tables, and design rules. The engineer works across architecture, mechanical, electrical, and fire protection disciplines, supports factory and field execution by responding to RFIs and reviewing shop drawings and submittals, and incorporates lessons into subsequent design revisions. The role also packages designs for site teams, fabricators, and local engineers of record to execute with minimal rework.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of structural engineering experience on industrial, mission-critical, or data center buildings.
• Hands-on steel, concrete, and foundation design experience, including performing calculations and producing detailed designs independently.
• Strong knowledge of IBC, ASCE 7, AISC 360, and ACI 318, and their application across seismic, wind, and snow regions.
• Daily experience with structural analysis and drafting tools such as RISA, SAP2000, ETABS, RAM, Revit, or equivalent.
• Experience designing pre-engineered metal buildings, equipment foundations, or modular and transported structures, with lifting and transport loads treated as key design constraints.
• Ability to work across disciplines, iterate quickly, and maintain configuration control.

Nice To Haves

• Professional Engineer (PE) license; Structural Engineer (SE) license is a plus.
• Experience as engineer of record on hyperscale data center or industrial projects.
• Depth in design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) and modular construction.

Responsibilities

• Perform and take responsibility for gravity, lateral, foundation, lifting, and transport analyses for template buildings, equipment supports, skids, and modular structures.
• Develop structural systems from concept through fabrication-ready drawings, connection details, and specifications without handing the work to a third party.
• Develop standard details, load tables, and design rules to support repeatable construction with minimal site-specific engineering.
• Coordinate structural design with architecture, mechanical, electrical, and fire protection disciplines, resolving interfaces so the package can be built cleanly.
• Support factory and field work by answering RFIs, reviewing shop drawings and submittals, and engineering fixes into subsequent design revisions.
• Package designs for site teams, fabricators, and local engineers of record to execute with minimal rework.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed