FluidStack
Civil Engineer, Capacity Delivery
About this role
Fluidstack seeks a Civil Engineer to lead civil engineering across a multi-site data center development portfolio, managing site selection, design, permitting, and construction from greenfield screening through completion. You'll own the civil workstream for 50GW+ of AI compute infrastructure, driving grading strategies, utility coordination, and phased delivery acceleration across large campus developments.
What you'll do
- Own civil engineering across multi-site data center portfolio from site screening through permitting and construction completion
- Lead civil due diligence for greenfield and conversion sites, identifying fatal flaws and cost risks during site selection
- Develop civil basis of design, master specifications, standard drawings, and grading strategies for large campus developments
- Structure phased delivery with early work packages to accelerate the critical path and enable parallel construction
- Lead civil permitting strategy across jurisdictions including land disturbance, NPDES/SWPPP, floodplain, and environmental permits
- Manage external civil consultants and coordinate civil scope with structural, MEP, fiber, and architectural teams
What they're looking for
- Large-scale site development civil engineering (data centers, industrial, or power infrastructure)
- Grading, earthwork, stormwater, and site utility design
- NPDES, SWPPP, and floodplain permitting (FEMA/CLOMR/LOMR)
- Geotechnical investigation coordination and boring program interpretation
- Civil consultant management and design quality control through IFC
- AutoCAD Civil 3D and GIS (bonus)
- PE license (bonus)
- Hyperscale or energy infrastructure experience (bonus)
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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
- Describe a time when you identified a civil fatal flaw during site selection that significantly impacted project cost or timeline—how did you quantify the risk?
- Walk us through your approach to managing earthwork balance and cut/fill sequencing for a large, phased data center campus development.