# Fluidstack Labs Lead

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $275k – $327k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** hardware qualification, Systems Engineering, lab operations, Vendor Management, gpu systems, npi processes, failure analysis, hyperscale hardware
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Lead the hardware qualification lab for next-gen compute, network, and rack systems ahead of large-scale AI infrastructure deployment. Own qualification roadmap, lab operations, vendor relationships, and final standardization decisions backed by test data.

## Job Description

## Lead Fluidstack Labs

**Responsibilities**
- Lead Fluidstack Labs: the team qualifying next-generation compute, network, and rack hardware ahead of fleet deployment.
- Own the qualification roadmap: what gets tested, to what bar, on what timeline, synced with sourcing and deployment plans.
- Run the lab as an operation: environments, equipment, and throughput that keep pace with vendor roadmaps.
- Make the calls: what the fleet standardizes on, backed by your team's data.
- Engage vendors as a peer on roadmaps, escalations, and early access.
- Publish results the whole company can act on.
- Extreme ownership: full autonomy, own things end to end, often taking on scope outside core role.
- Drive velocity with first principles thinking; challenge every assumption.

**Requirements**
- Led hardware qualification, systems engineering, or lab teams for compute or infrastructure.
- Owned deploy-or-not decisions with real money behind them.
- Stood up lab environments and the process discipline to run them.
- Engage vendors as a peer: roadmaps, escalations, and early access.

**Nice-to-Haves**
- GPU and accelerator systems.
- NPI processes.
- Failure analysis programs.
- Hyperscale hardware.

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