Reliability Engineer, Data Center Design

FluidStack

Reliability Engineer designing and maintaining data center reliability systems for Fluidstack. Focusing on building critical infrastructure for AI deployment and enhancing system availability.

Posted 7/11/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain reliability block diagrams and fault tree analyses across the full MEP service chain, from utility intake to rack-level IT load, running Monte Carlo simulations of at least 100,000 iterations to produce P50/P90/P95/P99 availability distributions.
Own the reliability study at each 30% and 90% design gate for Fluidstack's own templates, and run independent reliability assessments of EPC-proposed, colocation, and acquired-site designs benchmarked against Uptime Institute Tier III/IV classifications.
Manage third-party reliability consultants and review their RBD, FTA, and Monte Carlo work for methodology soundness, turning identified single points of failure into prioritized design recommendations before capital is committed.
Maintain the reliability model, component data, and full audit trail inside Windchill PLM, and produce availability statements, sensitivity analyses, and FMEA summaries for lease documents, SLAs, and investor materials.
Feed live-site failure and repair data from Operations and Commissioning back into the models, track modeled availability against measured uptime across the portfolio, and translate the components driving unavailability into maintenance, sparing, and capital allocation recommendations such as N+1 versus 2N.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You've personally built reliability block diagrams and fault tree analyses for mission-critical electrical and mechanical systems, not modeled them in the abstract.
You've run Monte Carlo simulations for system availability using PTC Windchill Prediction, ReliaSoft, or equivalent tools, and you know IEEE 493 (Gold Book) and IEEE 3006.5 well enough to defend your failure-rate and repair-time assumptions.
You've managed reliability models, component data, and version control inside PTC Windchill as the system of record, not a spreadsheet on the side.
You understand data center MEP systems well enough to model them accurately: MV/LV electrical distribution, standby generation, UPS, chilled water plants, CDUs, and building management/controls systems.
You default to quantifying risk instead of describing it. You'd rather hand someone a P90 availability number than tell them a system should be reliable.
You translate technical reliability findings into figures a lease document, SLA, or investor deck can actually use, without losing what the number means.
Bonus: PE license. Direct experience benchmarking designs against Uptime Institute Tier III/IV classifications. Liquid or hybrid cooling reliability modeling. Managing outside reliability consultants or engineering firms on a deliverable basis.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Offers equity in the form of stock options
Health insurance
Paid time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

Reliability Block DiagramFault Tree AnalysisMonte Carlo SimulationFMEA SummariesSensitivity AnalysisComponent Data ManagementRisk QuantificationData AnalysisDesign RecommendationsVersion Control

Soft Skills

CommunicationCollaborationProblem-SolvingLeadership

Certifications

PE License