Resident Structural Engineer, Modular R&D

Fluidstack

$95K — $115K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience engineering structures for complex products, particularly in modular construction or heavy fabrication.
  • Previous roles on shop floors or fabrication lines to handle nonconformances directly.
  • Ability to produce clear drawings that require minimal clarification by fabricators.
  • Experience supporting production launches and actively improving initial designs.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage design iterations while maintaining strict configuration control.
  • Preferred: PE license, knowledge of steel/sheet metal design, familiarity with structural detailing standards, and expertise in DFM.

Responsibilities

  • Manage structural systems of the modular product from design to production.
  • Conduct daily floor walks to identify and resolve fit-up and weld issues immediately.
  • Provide real-time structural support, addressing RFIs same-day from the manufacturing line.
  • Execute first-article reviews and fit checks in-person, documenting findings for drawing updates.
  • Facilitate feedback loops to modify designs based on manufacturing insights to prevent recurring issues.

Benefits

  • Commitment to pay equity and transparency in the workplace.
Full Job Description
The Modular Team

The Modular team is turning the data center into a manufactured product: structural modules engineered, built, and shipped from a production line instead of stick-built in the field.

Examples of key problems the team is working on:
  • Take a first-of-a-kind modular data center product from released drawings to rate production on a live manufacturing line.
  • Engineer frames, enclosures, and lifting and transport structures that survive fabrication, craning, road transport, and decades of service.
  • Close the loop between the factory floor and the design office fast enough that every unit builds cleaner than the last.
  • Hold configuration control while the product iterates at manufacturing speed, not construction speed.
Role Scope
  • Own the structural systems of the modular product on the line, frames, enclosures, and lifting and transport structures, from released drawings through rate production.
  • Live on the Phoenix manufacturing line: walk the floor daily, catch fit-up and weld issues at the station where they happen, and disposition them on the spot.
  • Run structural support for the factory in real time, answering RFIs same-day from the floor and engineering fixes into the next revision, not a someday backlog.
  • Run first-article reviews and fit checks in person as units come down the line, with findings documented tightly enough to drive drawing changes.
  • Close the loop to design: feed what the line learns back into drawings, tolerances, and the BOM so the same issue never surfaces twice.
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 engineered structures for complex physical products, modular construction, or heavy fabrication, hands-on, not from a review desk.
  • You've worked on a shop floor or fabrication line, and dispositioning a nonconformance with the line waiting is familiar work: use-as-is, rework, or stop, decided in the moment and defensible afterward.
  • Your drawings build clean. Fabricators rarely call, and when they do, you fix the drawing rather than explain it away.
  • You've supported production launches of your own designs and stayed with them through the ugly early units.
  • You iterate fast without losing configuration control: every floor fix lands back in the drawing, the tolerance stack, or the BOM.
  • Bonus: PE license, steel and sheet metal design, structural detailing standards (AISC, AWS), weld inspection or NDE familiarity, and DFM instincts.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Fluidstack

  • Head of Editorial
    $150K — $180K *
    San Francisco, CA 94112 (San Francisco County)
    Media
    In-Person
  • Head of Editorial
    $125K — $150K *
    Seattle, WA 98115 (King County)
    Media
    In-Person
  • Head of Editorial
    $125K — $150K *
    Austin, TX 78745 (Travis County)
    Media
    In-Person
  • Head of Editorial
    $150K — $180K *
    New York, NY 10025 (New York County)
    Media
    In-Person
  • Product Manager, Compute Operations
    $110K — $130K *
    Austin, TX 78745 (Travis County)
    Information Technology
    In-Person

More Manufacturing & Automotive Jobs

Find similar Resident Structural Engineer, Modular R&D jobs: