Fire Protection Engineer, Data Center Design

FluidStack

Fire Protection Engineer designing fire detection and suppression systems for data centers. Ensuring code compliance and coordinating with local fire marshals and engineering teams.

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

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the fire protection scope of design packages from concept through construction documents across the data center portfolio, designing and specifying VESDA and addressable fire alarm, pre-action sprinkler, wet pipe, and clean agent suppression systems.
Serve as Fluidstack's primary point of contact with local fire marshals and AHJs on every site, running plan reviews and negotiating code-compliant equivalencies on non-standard designs so permitting stays off the critical path.
Develop campus-level fire suppression strategy, coordinating water supply, distribution, and system redundancy across multiple buildings and phases of a build-out.
Review and approve fire protection submittals and shop drawings from EPC and equipment vendors, and validate third-party consultant designs for code compliance and consistency with Fluidstack standards before they advance to construction.
Support commissioning of fire detection and suppression systems with the Commissioning Agent, resolving test failures before sign-off, and provide fire protection input on capacity additions, retrofits, and incident-driven remediation on live sites.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You've personally designed, specified, and stood up fire detection and suppression systems for mission-critical, industrial, or large commercial facilities, not just reviewed someone else's plans.
You hold a PE license in Fire Protection Engineering, or NICET Level III/IV certification in Fire Alarm Systems and Water-Based Systems.
You've negotiated code-compliant alternatives directly with fire marshals and AHJs on non-standard designs, and you know how to keep permitting off the critical path.
You have thorough working knowledge of NFPA 75, 76, and 2001, and FM Global's data center loss prevention requirements, and you translate that code into decisions EPCs and operations teams can act on.
You coordinate fire protection design with electrical, mechanical, and controls engineering so life safety systems integrate cleanly into the rest of the building, not bolted on at the end.
You write clearly enough that a system narrative, hydraulic calculation, or piece of AHJ correspondence still reads as the source of truth for a site years after you wrote it.
Bonus: FM-200 and Novec 1230 clean agent systems in data center environments. Multiple state or municipal AHJ jurisdictions. Hyperscale or colocation campus design. NFPA committee or code development involvement.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Offers equity in the form of stock options

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Hard Skills & Tools

Fire Detection System DesignFire Suppression System DesignHydraulic CalculationCode Compliance ReviewSystem Integration Coordination

Soft Skills

Clear Written CommunicationProblem Solving

Certifications

NICET Level III/IV Certification in Fire Alarm SystemsNICET Level III/IV Certification in Water-Based Systems