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For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it. \nWe're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.\nWe hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!\nHow We Operate\nBe a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.\n\nInsane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.\n\nReason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.\n\nLove of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.\n\nBuild something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.\n\nThe Product Engineering NPI Team\nThe NPI team takes hardware from design release to repeatable production across every product Fluidstack builds, from compute racks to medium-voltage switchgear.\nExamples of key problems the team is working on:\nStand up a stage-gate NPI process that works across product families as different as rack-level compute integration and MV power equipment, without forcing them through the same checklist.\n\nRun multiple concurrent NPI programs with a small TPM team, keeping schedule, readiness, and risk visible at the portfolio level.\n\nDefine what \"ready to transfer\" means with manufacturing engineering, so products land in production without a wave of post-transfer ECOs.\n\nEnforce change discipline (ECOs, deviations, readiness criteria) at a pace that keeps up with the largest AI compute buildout in history.\n\nRole Scope\nBuild the NPI process from scratch: gate definitions, readiness criteria, and ECO and change discipline that hold across products ranging from racks to MV switchgear.\n\nLead and develop the NPI TPM team, allocating 3 TPMs across 6 product families and making the tradeoffs explicit when coverage gets thin.\n\nOwn portfolio-level program visibility, with status and risk reporting rigorous enough that leadership hears about problems from you before anyone else.\n\nSet the transfer-to-manufacturing standards with manufacturing engineering, defining exit criteria a program must clear before production takes ownership.\n\nHold the RACI between TPMs and engineering technical leads so ownership never blurs and no decision waits on a debate about whose call it is.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nThe 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.\n10+ years in NPI or program management at a hardware OEM or ODM, with 3+ years leading TPM or NPI teams.\n\nYou've built stage-gate processes yourself, defining the gates, readiness criteria, and ECO discipline, not just operated inside a process someone else designed.\n\nYou've led TPM or NPI teams and developed the people in them, not just assigned their work.\n\nYou've managed programs spanning multiple product lines simultaneously and can show how you kept them all honest.\n\nYou've killed a program too late at least once, and you can name the signal you missed and what you watch for now.\n\nYou keep NPI lightweight enough that engineers use it instead of routing around it.\n\nBonus: portfolio management tooling, products spanning compute and power equipment, manufacturing transfer at new plants, or building teams from zero.\n\nWe are committed to pay equity and transparency.\nFluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. 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