Plumbing Engineer, R&D

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Standardizing the domestic, process, and make-up water systems that feed liquid cooling plants so they can be ordered as kits and installed in prefabricated modules.

• Sizing water supply, storage, and drainage for cooling loads that swing faster than conventional plumbing design assumes.

• Coordinating water treatment, backflow protection, and chemical dosing with the controls and water-quality engineers who operate the loops.

• Turning field and commissioning findings into design changes that reach the next site.

Role Scope

• Own the plumbing design. Design domestic water, process and make-up water, condenser water piping, drainage, and stormwater systems for data center buildings and prefabricated modules, from concept through construction documents.

• Size and specify. Run hydraulic calculations, select pumps, valves, backflow preventers, water heaters, and storage, and write the specifications vendors and contractors build to.

• Hold the codes. Keep designs compliant with plumbing, mechanical, and health codes across the jurisdictions Fluidstack builds in, and manage the permit and inspection questions that come back.

• Integrate with cooling. Work with the mechanical, water-quality, and controls engineers so make-up water, treatment, and blowdown are designed as one system with the cooling plant.

• Support the build. Review contractor submittals and shop drawings, answer RFIs, and walk installations through commissioning.

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.

• 5+ years of plumbing or piping design engineering on industrial, mission-critical, or large commercial facilities, with at least one project taken through construction documents and commissioning.

• Working knowledge of the IPC or UPC, IMC, and local amendments, and of how to get a design through permit review.

• Hands-on with hydraulic calculations, pump and pipe sizing, backflow protection, and water storage design.

• Fluency in Revit or AutoCAD MEP and a hydraulic modeling tool.

• You have reviewed contractor submittals and answered RFIs, and you know which deviations matter.

• You write specifications a contractor can bid without a meeting.

• Bonus: Professional Engineer license or CPD certification. Data center or liquid-cooling plant experience. Water treatment or industrial process piping background.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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