# Qual Engineer, Fluidstack Labs

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Salary:** $202k – $241k/yr
**Skills:** hardware testing, hardware validation, lab engineering, test plans, failure logging, server hardware, Linux, Scripting, electrical test equipment, data center hardware
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Execute hardware qualification programs for AI compute infrastructure, owning test benches, logging and triaging failures, and maintaining labs with server-class hardware. Requires hands-on hardware test/validation/lab experience, precise test execution, and organized failure documentation.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
- Execute qualification programs: test plans run, data collected, and results documented across compute and rack hardware.
- Own the test benches: builds, cabling, instrumentation, and the discipline that keeps results valid.
- Log and triage failures: symptoms captured cleanly, reproduced reliably, and escalated with evidence.
- Maintain the lab: inventory, calibration, and environments ready before the hardware arrives.

## What We're Looking For
- You've done hardware test, validation, or lab engineering hands-on.
- You follow test plans exactly and flag when the plan is wrong.
- Your failure logs let someone else reproduce the issue.
- You handle server-class hardware safely and correctly.
- You keep a lab organized under heavy throughput.

**Bonus:** Linux command-line fluency. Scripting basics. Electrical test equipment. Data center hardware exposure.

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