Estimator, Modular R&D
FluidStackGPU Cloud company
Austin, United StatesMid
Situational Awareness
Astro Capital (NY)
7GC & Co
Armyn Capital
Autopilot Management Company
Bare Metal Ventures
About the role
TL;DR
Estimate costs for modular data center designs.
- •Build and own the cost model for the modular data center product, covering every assembly across structural, mechanical, electrical, and controls scopes.
- •Key Responsibilities Produce estimates at every design release so the program always knows what the product costs before it commits to build.
- •Price design alternatives in days, giving engineers cost facts on trade-offs like cooling configuration, electrical distribution, and skid versus site-built scope.
- •Interrogate vendor quotes line by line with supply chain, and build should-cost models for the equipment categories that dominate unit cost.
- •Reconcile estimates against actuals after each build and fold the variance back into the model, so the next estimate is tighter than the last.
- •Requirements You've personally estimated mechanical, electrical, or modular construction scopes: takeoffs, unit pricing, vendor pricing, and a final number you stood behind when the project was won or lost.
- •You've built cost models other people could run without you in the room, and they held up.
- •You've reconciled estimate versus actual and changed your assumptions when the data said you were wrong.
- •You've priced options for engineers in the middle of a design decision, delivering a usable number in hours when the decision couldn't wait.
- •You know where estimates fail (scope gaps, labor productivity, escalation, freight) and you've caught those failures before they priced a bid.
- •You've worked directly with design engineers early in product development, where drawings are incomplete and the estimate still has to be right about what matters.