# Fire Protection Engineering Lead, Capacity Delivery

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $215k – $302k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** fire protection engineering, nfpa 13, nfpa 72, nfpa 75, nfpa 855, ahj approval, performance-based design, suppression systems, detection systems, life safety, clean agent systems, water mist systems, lithium-ion storage protection
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Lead fire protection engineering for Fluidstack's gigawatt-scale AI data centers, owning reference design, AHJ approvals, and performance-based strategies for liquid-cooled facilities from concept through construction.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
Own fire protection engineering across the portfolio: suppression, detection, and life safety from reference design through AHJ approval.
Set the fire protection reference design for liquid-cooled data halls and evolve it with code and AHJ feedback.
Run AHJ strategy across jurisdictions so approvals land ahead of the schedule that needs them.
Review fire protection designs and calculations as the authority the AHJ trusts.

## Responsibilities
- Lead fire protection engineering for gigawatt-scale data center builds.
- Engineer data centers that go up in months, not years, ensuring rework is avoided by catching problems on paper.
- Design once and build many times, incorporating lessons from each site into the reference design on the path to 50GW+.
- Manage technical execution across drawings, field questions, and engineering calls for multiple concurrent gigawatt sites.

## Requirements
- Led fire protection engineering for industrial or mission critical facilities.
- Gotten nonstandard designs approved through performance-based paths.
- Deep knowledge of NFPA 13, 72, 75, and 855 at the section level.
- AHJs take your calls and your word.

## Nice-to-Haves
- FPE PE license.
- Experience with clean agent and water mist systems.
- Lithium-ion storage protection.
- Data center fire protection expertise.

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