Fluidstack
Forward Deployed Engineer, Compute Operations
$224K–$300K
New York, NY · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 3, 2026
About the job
Build software systems for compute and facility operations, including fleet health, repair workflows, hardware qualification, asset management, and operational procedures.
What you'll do
- Develop fleet telemetry, health checks, incident alerts, and repair/RMA workflows across Kubernetes and bare metal.
- Automate hardware qualification and facility maintenance, asset tracking, and migration from legacy inventory tools.
- Work on site with production engineers and facility operators to turn operational needs into software, procedures, and dashboards.
What they ask for
- Production coding experience in Go, Python, or TypeScript, with ability to learn other languages as needed.
- Experience building features with LLM APIs, MCP servers, and agentic frameworks.
- Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor, including autonomous agent workflows.
- Experience with on-call operations or working alongside on-call teams, and improving operational systems.
Nice to have
- Production engineering or SRE on large GPU fleets; hardware qualification or burn-in frameworks; BMC, Redfish, or IPMI tooling; CMMS, DCIM, asset management, BMS/EPMS, or SCADA.
- Prometheus and Grafana.
Pay
USD $224K – $300K base salary
Tools
Go, Python, TypeScript, OpenAI, Anthropic, MCP, Claude Code, Cursor
AI focus
Build features using LLM APIs, MCP servers, and agentic frameworks; use AI coding tools and autonomous agents in development.
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