Fluidstack Labs Lead

Fluidstack

$130K — $180K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in hardware qualification or systems engineering.
  • Proven track record of leading lab teams in compute or infrastructure.
  • Experience making significant deployment decisions with financial impact.
  • Strong ability to build and maintain lab environments with operational discipline.
  • Effective communication with vendors at a peer level on technical matters.
  • Publication of results for company-wide actionability.
  • Bonus: Familiarity with GPU systems, NPI processes, and hyperscale hardware.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the qualification of next-gen compute and network hardware.
  • Manage the qualification roadmap to align with sourcing and deployment plans.
  • Operate the lab to ensure efficient testing environments and equipment.
  • Drive decisions on fleet standardization based on data insights.
  • Synchronize testing timelines with vendor roadmaps and internal objectives.
  • Establish operational discipline in lab procedures.
  • Provide actionable insights through published results for the entire company.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge compute and network technology.
  • Collaborative environment that values input from all team members.
  • Access to vendor roadmaps and early product testing.
  • A culture that encourages publishing impactful results.
  • Commitment to pay equity and transparency.
Full Job Description
Role Scope
  • 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.
What We're Looking For
  • The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
  • You've led hardware qualification, systems engineering, or lab teams for compute or infrastructure.
  • You've owned deploy-or-not decisions with real money behind them.
  • You've stood up lab environments and the process discipline to run them.
  • You engage vendors as a peer: roadmaps, escalations, and early access.
  • You publish results the whole company can act on.
  • Bonus: GPU and accelerator systems. NPI processes. Failure analysis programs. Hyperscale hardware.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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