Acoustics Engineer, Capacity Delivery
Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, U.S. Remote, Seattle, WA$164k - $206kFull-timePosted today
About the role
Acoustics specialist within Fluidstack's Civil, Structural and Architectural Team responsible for environmental and occupational noise studies, modeling, and mitigation planning for gigawatt-scale data center and power generation projects.
Responsibilities
- Own the acoustic studies. Run environmental and occupational noise studies and calculations for the template data center and power generation designs, and keep them current as the templates change.
- Model the sites. Build and maintain outdoor sound propagation models for each template and adapt them to candidate sites, terrain, and local ordinances.
- Recommend the mitigations. Specify barriers, silencers, acoustic enclosures, louvers, and equipment selections that bring sites within limits, with the cost and schedule case for each.
- Work across engineering. Bring noise requirements into the mechanical, electrical, power generation, and architectural designs early, and review their equipment selections and layouts for acoustic impact.
- Protect the workforce. Set occupational noise exposure limits for plant and yard work areas, define hearing conservation zones, and verify them at commissioning.
- Support permitting. Produce the noise assessments, reports, and measurements that permitting and community engagement need, and answer the questions that come back.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of acoustics or noise control engineering on industrial, power generation, or mission-critical facilities, with at least one project taken from study through permit and commissioning measurement.
- Fluency in an outdoor sound propagation tool such as CadnaA or SoundPLAN and in the ISO 9613-2 method behind it.
- Hands-on with environmental noise measurement, sound power and sound pressure data from equipment vendors, and octave-band calculations.
- Working knowledge of occupational noise standards such as OSHA 1910.95 and the local noise ordinances that govern industrial sites.
- Experience specifying barriers, silencers, and acoustic enclosures and seeing them built and measured.
- Ability to explain acoustic trade-offs to mechanical and electrical engineers and enforce design limits during reviews.
- Bonus: INCE Board Certification or Professional Engineer license; data center or gas turbine plant noise experience; building acoustics or vibration isolation background; mechanical engineering or procurement experience.
Skills
Required:Acoustics/Noise EngineeringOutdoor sound propagation toolsEnvironmental noise measurementOccupational noise standardsAcoustic mitigationsCommunication with engineers
Last updated Oct 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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