FluidStack
Tooling & Fixturing Engineer
About this role
Fluidstack is hiring a Tooling & Fixturing Engineer in Austin to design and manage production tooling—weld fixtures, assembly jigs, and handling tools—for their data center manufacturing operations. You'll own the complete lifecycle from concept through validation, ensuring fixtures hold tolerance, prevent errors, and prioritize operator safety as the company scales AI compute infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design weld fixtures, assembly jigs, lifting tools, and handling equipment for factory production
- Execute tolerance stack-ups and repeatability studies; sign off on fixture capability
- Manage tooling lifecycle including maintenance, calibration, revisions, and documentation
- Apply mistake-proofing principles and design for ergonomic, safe operator handling
- Revise fixtures quickly when product designs change to maintain manufacturing cadence
- Prove fixtures meet performance targets through formal capability studies
What they're looking for
- Production tooling and fixture design for fabrication/assembly
- Tolerance stack-up analysis and GD&T
- Capability studies and statistical validation
- SolidWorks or Inventor CAD
- Weld fixture design
- Lifting device design standards
- Mistake-proofing and design for manufacturability
- Tooling lifecycle and inventory management
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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 fixture you designed that's still in production—what were the critical tolerances and how did you validate it would hold them at rate?
- Describe your approach to tolerance stack-ups; how do you decide which tolerances are most critical and how tight they need to be?