[Hiring] Acoustics Engineer @Fluidstack

Role Description

You'll join the civil, structural, and architectural engineers who design the buildings, sites, and yards for Fluidstack's gigawatt-scale AI data centers. The team works from template designs that repeat across campuses, and every template carries large mechanical plant, on-site generation, and electrical yards whose sound has to be understood before the first site is permitted. This role is the team's acoustics specialist and the point of contact for noise across the data center and power generation engineering groups.

• Predicting property-line and community noise from template data center designs with hundreds of fans, chillers, and dry coolers running at full load, before a site is chosen.
• Quantifying the noise of on-site gas generation, transformers, and switchyards and folding it into the same site model.
• Choosing mitigations that work as repeatable products, such as barriers, silencers, enclosures, and equipment selection, rather than site-by-site fixes.
• Keeping occupied work areas inside and around the plant within occupational noise limits as equipment density rises.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of acoustics or noise control engineering on industrial, power generation, or mission-critical facilities, with at least one project taken from study through permit and commissioning measurement.
• Fluency in an outdoor sound propagation tool such as CadnaA or SoundPLAN and in the ISO 9613-2 method behind it.
• Hands-on with environmental noise measurement, sound power and sound pressure data from equipment vendors, and octave-band calculations.
• Working knowledge of occupational noise standards such as OSHA 1910.95 and the local noise ordinances that govern industrial sites.
• You have specified barriers, silencers, and acoustic enclosures and seen them built and measured.
• You explain acoustic trade-offs to mechanical and electrical engineers in their terms and hold the line on limits when a design review wants to spend them.

Requirements

• Bonus: INCE Board Certification or Professional Engineer license.
• Data center or gas turbine plant noise experience.
• Building acoustics or vibration isolation background.
• Mechanical engineering or procurement experience.

Company Description

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.