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Fluidstack

Structural Engineer, Modular R&D

Location

New York, NY

Wage

$164,000 – $206,000/yr

Employment Type

Full-time

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Posted on September 7, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Fluidstack is focused on delivering significant compute infrastructure for AI, aiming to enhance human freedom through technology. The Structural Engineer role in the Modular R&D team involves engineering modular data center products and solving complex structural integration challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Engineer the structural systems of modular products from concept through released fabrication drawings.
  • Own structural calculations and load paths to ensure modules survive fabrication, shipping, rigging, and stacking.
  • Solve integration problems where structure meets MEP, including penetrations and attachment points.
  • Provide structural support for factory and field, answering RFIs same-day and engineering fixes into the next revision.
  • Drive prototyping and validation through mockups, fit checks, and first-article reviews.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience engineering structures for complex physical products, modular construction, or heavy fabrication.
  • Experience taking a steel or sheet metal product from concept through fabrication.
  • Support production launches of designs and accountability through first articles.
  • Consider transport loads, lifting points, and stacking as primary design constraints.
  • Produce clean drawings that minimize fabricator inquiries.
  • Collaborate across disciplines and iterate quickly without losing configuration control.
  • Bonus: PE license, depth in steel and sheet metal design, structural detailing standards, 3D CAD mastery, and strong DFM instincts.
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How this job compares in New York, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $89/hr, this posting sits about 98% above the $45/hr median for welding jobs in New York, NY — toward the top of a $38–$58/hr middle band drawn from 30 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 90% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in New York, NY

We're tracking 39 other active welding openings in New York, NY right now, from 33 different employers. 25 of them were added in the last week. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 219 other active welding openings from 146 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in New York, or widen the search to New York.

Fluidstack currently has 4 other openings live in New York, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (17), Randstad USA (6), and Philips (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $45/hr, Staten Island at $31/hr, and Brooklyn at $30/hr. New York is among them.

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