# Fluidstack Labs Lead at FluidStack > Onsite · United States · Staff · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Afluidstack%3A4ec0cf5f-7643-4a05-802d-1edd20a3a826 (read 2026-11-04). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [FluidStack](https://alderhq.app/companies/fluidstack) - Location text: Austin, TX - Where it can be done from (inferred): Onsite · United States (evidence: "Location: Austin, TX") - Posted: 2026-10-21 (13 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fluidstack/4ec0cf5f-7643-4a05-802d-1edd20a3a826 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: $200k–$275k per year (from the listing's pay field) - Market band for similar posted roles (Austin, n 29): p25 $160k, median $227k, p75 $300k - H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 7, median offered wage $260k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance)) - Licensed UK sponsor: registered as "Fluidstack Ltd" (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers)) ## Description (the employer's text) ### About Fluidstack We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it. We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI. ### We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply! ### How We Operate Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role. Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible. Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins. Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward. Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world. ### The Fluidstack Labs Team ### Examples of key problems the team is working on Qualify the hardware the frontier runs on before it runs anywhere else. First samples of next-generation accelerators, switches, storage, and liquid cooling land here, and leave as production-ready platforms with runbooks the whole fleet inherits. Compress silicon-to-production to weeks. The lab closes the gap between vendor sample and customer-ready gigawatt infrastructure, and every week cut here pulls the entire 10s-of-GW deployment curve forward. Run the lab like a production site. Provisioning, telemetry, demand management, and liquid cooling mirror production architecture exactly, so a qualification pass in the lab is a deployment guarantee in the field. Prove the power envelope nobody else will touch. Dynamic demand management lets AI compute deploy beyond nominal electrical capacity, and the lab validates the full detection-to-shutdown response chain that makes it safe. ### Role Scope Own the NPI lab end to end: a direct-liquid-cooled facility with CDU-fed rows and an air-cooled zone that mirror production architecture, and take it fully operational by end of year. Build and lead the on-site team of data center technicians and lab qualification engineers, and serve as the first escalation point for facility-floor issues. Schedule and deconflict qualification programs across vendor sample timelines: next-generation accelerator platforms (NVIDIA, AMD, custom accelerators), Ethernet switching on the Broadcom Tomahawk and Jericho families and NVIDIA Spectrum, converged NVMe storage platforms (Weka, Hammerspace, VAST Data), and CDU platforms (nVent, CoolIT, Vertiv). You own operations, scheduling, and execution while an NPI technical program manager and per-domain technical leads (compute and storage, networking, optics and fiber, cooling and controls) drive the technical content of each program. Run the multi-party access model under which hardware partners and customers qualify their own equipment in the lab, including customer-owned hardware, NDAs and access agreements, badging coordination, vendor escort, and provisioned remote access. Own lab logistics: equipment receiving, asset inventory, rack-and-stack execution quality, RMA handling, migration and standup of lab infrastructure, and coordination of CDU manifold connections and leak inspection with deployment engineering. Host the power oversubscription and demand-management validation program, from rPDU commissioning and stress harnesses through the full detection to load-shed to shutdown response chain. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Afluidstack%3A4ec0cf5f-7643-4a05-802d-1edd20a3a826 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.