# Facilities Production Team Lead

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $188k – $266k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** facilities engineering, industrial software, data center operations, SRE, ot systems, ot/it, Team Management, Roadmap Planning, hiring, on-call management
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Lead the facilities production engineering team at Fluidstack, owning hiring, roadmap, delivery, and on-call health while bridging OT/IT skills for large-scale AI data center operations. Requires experience managing engineering teams in operational environments and balancing roadmap vs. interrupt-driven support.

## Job Description

## Lead the Facilities Production Engineering Team

- Hire, set priorities, ensure delivery, and maintain on-call health for the team.
- Own the roadmap that connects site needs to engineering output, prioritized by fleet impact.
- Run the operating rhythm with site operators to ensure the team builds what operations actually need.
- Grow engineers across the OT/IT boundary, developing a rare hybrid skill set.

## Requirements

- Experience managing engineering teams that ship into operational environments.
- Proven ability to balance roadmap work against interrupt-driven site support without letting either starve.
- Experience hiring for rare hybrid skill sets and developing people into them when the market provides none.
- Track record of teams continuing to ship effectively even when the pager is loud.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Facilities or industrial software experience.
- Data center operations exposure.
- SRE practices.
- OT systems familiarity.

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