FluidStack
Paint Line / Surface Treatment Engineer
About this role
Fluidstack is seeking a Paint Line / Surface Treatment Engineer to own the design, commissioning, and operation of industrial coating systems for data center infrastructure. You'll optimize pretreatment chemistry, coating application, and cure processes while maintaining quality standards and environmental compliance at production scale.
What you'll do
- Design and optimize paint line processes including pretreatment, coating application, and cure cycles
- Commission coating lines and qualify coatings with suppliers against performance specifications
- Troubleshoot and solve adhesion, contamination, and cure issues to root cause
- Manage pretreatment chemistry and supplier relationships to ensure consistent quality
- Maintain compliance with air permits and environmental regulations while meeting appearance and adhesion standards
- Conduct testing to industry standards and act on results to improve process and product
What they're looking for
- Industrial paint or coating operations (liquid or powder)
- Pretreatment chemistry and process management
- Adhesion and contamination problem solving
- Quality testing and standards compliance
- Environmental permitting and regulatory compliance
- Process engineering and optimization
- Paint robot programming (preferred)
- Heavy equipment or steel substrate coating experience (preferred)
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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 specific adhesion or cure problem you diagnosed and solved in a production coating line—what was your root cause analysis process?
- How do you approach pretreatment chemistry management and supplier relationships to ensure process consistency?