FluidStack
Supplier Development Engineer
Austin, TX$186k–$223kfulltimemidAdded today
About this role
Fluidstack seeks a Supplier Development Engineer to drive manufacturing excellence across our AI data center supply chain. You'll conduct on-site audits, qualify suppliers, resolve quality issues at root cause, and build capacity ahead of demand to support rapid infrastructure scaling.
What you'll do
- Execute process audits, capability studies, and improvement plans at supplier facilities
- Qualify new suppliers and parts through first articles and PPAP-style approvals
- Investigate and resolve supplier quality issues directly on their production floor
- Build supplier capacity proactively to prevent bottlenecks in our manufacturing
- Launch support suppliers through production ramps with hands-on engagement
- Develop supplier capability without doing their work for them
What they're looking for
- Supplier quality engineering
- Manufacturing process auditing
- PPAP and first article inspection
- Root cause analysis and problem-solving
- SPC, MSA, FMEA tools
- Weld, fabrication, machining, or coating expertise (bonus)
- On-site engagement and supplier relationship management
- Rapid decision-making and execution
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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 supplier quality issue you solved on-site that others were managing remotely—what was your approach?
- Walk us through how you've run PPAP and first article inspection with both rigor and speed.