FluidStack
Fire Protection Engineer, R&D
About this role
Fluidstack seeks a Fire Protection Engineer to design and engineer fire detection, suppression, and alarm systems for modular AI data center units and backup thermal modules. You'll own hydraulic calculations, system layouts, device placement, and shepherd designs through permitting and commissioning while developing standardized, fabrication-ready solutions.
What you'll do
- Design fire protection systems (detection, suppression, alarm) for modular data center units and backup thermal plants
- Perform hydraulic calculations, coverage analysis, and device placement end-to-end
- Develop standardized, modular fire protection designs optimized for fabrication
- Support permitting, plan review, and acceptance testing with authorities having jurisdiction
- Ensure designs meet NFPA 13, NFPA 72, and relevant fire codes
- Collaborate across hardware and software teams to integrate fire protection into facility design
What they're looking for
- Fire protection system design (detection, suppression, alarm)
- Hydraulic calculations and sizing
- NFPA 13 (sprinkler) and NFPA 72 (fire alarm) standards
- AutoSPRINK or HydraCAD software
- Plan review and code compliance expertise
- Industrial or mission-critical facility experience
- Design for manufacturability and modularization
- Clean agent or water mist systems (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
- Walk us through a recent fire protection system you designed—what were the key challenges and how did you approach the hydraulic calculations?
- Describe your experience taking a fire protection design through plan review and acceptance testing. What were the most common AHJ objections you encountered?