Principal Operations Engineer, Electrical
Remote$258k - $300k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior technical authority for operational electrical infrastructure across Fluidstack's hyperscale AI data center fleet, leading site assessments, operational audits, and readiness for site activation with field-focused travel.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the most senior technical authority for operational electrical infrastructure across the hyperscale AI data center fleet.
- Lead site assessments and operational audits, and drive the technical readiness of teams ahead of site activation.
- Review designs and specifications from an operational lens, and feed operational learnings back into design and manufacturing as the build model becomes productized.
- Own electrical operational readiness and the commissioning-to-operations handover for new sites.
- Author and approve high-risk electrical MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs, and lead root cause analysis on significant electrical events.
- Act as the connective tissue between operations, design, construction, hardware, and EHS, and a force multiplier across cluster leads and field engineers.
- Travel 50 to 75% across the fleet.
Qualifications
- You've spent a career running mission-critical electrical systems and come up through the trades, the field, or both.
- You command the operational electrical stack: switchgear, UPS, generators, paralleling, ATS/STS, PDUs, and EPMS, in live critical environments.
- You've authored and executed high-risk electrical MOPs and led root cause analysis on significant events through closure.
- You walk into any site and assess operational readiness, audit the posture, and raise the standard.
- You teach. You build the technical readiness of the teams around you ahead of activation.
Skills
Required:Operational electrical systemsMOPs/EOPs/AOPs
Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
- Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
Last updated Oct 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Fluidstack
Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI
Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, delivering gigawatts of compute in 6 months. We're leading the deployment of Anthropic's $50B compute build out.
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