Structural Engineer, Modular R&D

Fluidstack

$110K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of hands-on engineering experience in structural systems for modular construction or heavy fabrication.
  • Proven track record of bringing a steel or sheet metal product from concept through to fabrication.
  • Experience in supporting production launches, ensuring accountability for first-article products.
  • Strong understanding of transport loads and lifting points as integral design elements.
  • Ability to produce detailed and clear drawings that minimize fabrication inquiries and errors.
  • Experience in collaborative, cross-disciplinary work environments, with a focus on rapid iteration and configuration control.
  • Bonus: Professional Engineer (PE) license, depth in steel and sheet metal design, familiarity with structural detailing standards, and mastery in 3D CAD tools.

Responsibilities

  • Engineer the structural systems of modular products, including frames and enclosures, from concept to fabrication drawings.
  • Own the structural calculations and ensure load paths are adequate for all modes of transport and handling.
  • Address integration challenges between structure and MEP disciplines, particularly around penetrations and attachment points.
  • Provide structural support for factory and field, responding to RFIs on the same day and integrating engineering fixes into design revisions.
  • Lead prototyping and validation processes, participating in mockups, fit checks, and first-article reviews.
  • Collaborate closely with other disciplines to iterate designs quickly and maintain configuration control.

Benefits

  • Commitment to pay equity and transparency throughout the organization.
Full Job Description
The Modular Team

The Modular team designs and ships factory-built data center modules that carry the largest AI compute buildout in history.

Examples of key problems the team is working on:
  • Engineer a modular data center product that survives fabrication, trucking, craning, and stacking without field rework.
  • Resolve the collisions between structure and MEP: penetrations, attachment points, and tolerances where disciplines meet in a tight envelope.
  • Compress the loop from factory and field issues to engineered fixes in the next design revision.
  • Prove designs with physical mockups, fit checks, and first-article reviews before they scale to production.
Role Scope
  • Engineer the structural systems of the modular product, frames, enclosures, and lifting and transport structures, from concept through released fabrication drawings.
  • Own the structural calcs and load paths so modules survive fabrication, shipping, rigging, and stacking without redesign.
  • Solve the integration problems where structure meets MEP: penetrations, attachment points, and tolerances where the disciplines collide.
  • Run structural support for the factory and field, answering RFIs same-day and engineering fixes into the next revision.
  • Drive prototyping and validation through mockups, fit checks, and first-article reviews you attend in person.
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 hands-on for complex physical products, modular construction, or heavy fabrication (modules, trailers, skids, container conversions).
  • You've taken a steel or sheet metal product from concept through fabrication, not just analyzed someone else's design.
  • You've supported production launches of your own designs and stayed accountable through first articles.
  • You treat transport loads, lifting points, and stacking as first-class design constraints, not afterthoughts checked at the end.
  • Your drawings build clean: fabricators rarely call, and when they do, you fix the drawing.
  • You work across disciplines instead of throwing problems over walls, and you iterate fast without losing configuration control.
  • Bonus: PE license, steel and sheet metal design depth, structural detailing standards (AISC, AWS), 3D CAD mastery (SolidWorks, Inventor, Revit), and strong DFM instincts.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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