FluidStack
Automation & Equipment Engineer
About this role
Fluidstack seeks an Automation & Equipment Engineer to design, specify, and deploy production automation cells and equipment for large-scale AI data center infrastructure. You'll own the complete lifecycle from requirements through production handoff, ensuring seamless integration with control systems and continuous uptime optimization.
What you'll do
- Specify, select vendors for, and procure automation equipment and production cells
- Conduct factory acceptance testing (FAT) and oversee installation and commissioning (SAT)
- Integrate equipment into control systems and data pipelines for OEE and cycle-time tracking
- Own equipment performance and uptime metrics post-handoff to production operations
- Provide comprehensive training, documentation, and spare parts strategy at project completion
- Troubleshoot sensors, drives, and control logic at equipment level
What they're looking for
- Production equipment specification and vendor management
- Factory acceptance testing (FAT) and site acceptance testing (SAT)
- PLC programming and machine controls
- Robotics integration and automation design
- Machine safety standards and compliance
- OEE and MES system integration
- CMMS and preventive maintenance planning
- Hands-on troubleshooting of mechanical and electrical systems
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FluidStack
FluidStack builds AI infrastructure at scale, developing data centers and warehouse operations designed to handle gigawatt-capacity compute deployment. The company is hiring for warehouse engineers, data center operations specialists, product engineers, and people leaders to support rapid infrastructure expansion across multiple sites.
- Website
- fluidstack.io
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a production automation project you specified end-to-end—what was your role from URS through SAT and why did it matter?
- Tell us about a time you ran a FAT that caught a critical issue before equipment shipped. How did you identify it and what was the impact?