Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fluidstack is focused on delivering large-scale compute infrastructure for AI, aiming to enhance human freedom through technology. The Principal Operations Engineer will serve as the senior technical authority for electrical infrastructure across AI data centers, leading operational audits, readiness assessments, and ensuring high standards in operational excellence.
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
- Travel 50 to 75% across the fleet. The work is in the field, not at a desk
Skills
- You've spent a career running mission-critical electrical systems and come up through the trades, the field, or both
- You command the operational electrical stack: switchgear, UPS, generators, paralleling, ATS/STS, PDUs, and EPMS, in live critical environments
- You've authored and executed high-risk electrical MOPs and led root cause analysis on significant events through closure
- You walk into any site and assess operational readiness, audit the posture, and raise the standard
- You teach. You build the technical readiness of the teams around you ahead of activation
- Bonus: Hyperscale or large colocation at hundreds of MW
- NETA and NFPA 70E expertise
- EPMS platforms
- Arc-flash and electrical safety program ownership
- Uptime Institute
Benefits
- Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
- Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.
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