About the Opportunity
We are partnering with an innovative data center development and infrastructure company supporting the rapidly growing AI and high-performance computing (HPC) industry.
The company develops and operates specialized data center facilities for GPU cloud providers, AI infrastructure companies, and enterprise customers. Its projects range from smaller multi-megawatt deployments to large-scale facilities exceeding 30 MW, including the conversion of existing industrial buildings into high-density computing environments.
We are seeking a Senior Data Center Engineer to oversee critical infrastructure projects from initial site evaluation and utility coordination through engineering design, construction, commissioning, and operational handoff.
This is an owner-side engineering opportunity for someone who can take technical ownership of infrastructure workstreams, coordinate across utilities and external engineering partners, and help deliver reliable, high-density AI data center environments.
What You'll Do
- Site Evaluation & Infrastructure Planning: Evaluate potential sites for electrical power availability, utility capacity, fiber connectivity, water access, structural requirements, and permitting constraints. Develop phased capacity plans, cost estimates, and implementation schedules.
- Electrical Infrastructure: Lead utility coordination and review electrical designs involving transformers, switchgear, UPS systems, generators, and rack-level power distribution.
- Mechanical & Cooling Systems: Review mechanical infrastructure designs for high-density GPU deployments, including air cooling, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, coolant distribution units (CDUs), and facility water systems. Evaluate redundancy, scalability, cost, and implementation timelines.
- Engineering & Construction Oversight: Represent the owner during construction, review technical submittals and RFIs, resolve engineering issues, and coordinate with engineering firms, contractors, and equipment vendors.
- Commissioning & Operational Readiness: Lead commissioning activities and integrated systems testing. Develop operating procedures, preventive maintenance plans, and incident response processes.
- Standards & Continuous Improvement: Help establish repeatable engineering standards, reference designs, and operating procedures that can be applied across future data center projects.
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of experience in data center engineering, critical infrastructure, or comparable mission-critical facilities.
- Hands-on experience owning a significant electrical, mechanical, construction, commissioning, or critical operations workstream.
- Strong technical knowledge of electrical or mechanical infrastructure, with the ability to understand how power and cooling systems interact in high-density computing environments.
- Experience coordinating with utilities, engineering firms, general contractors, subcontractors, and/or equipment vendors.
- Ability to evaluate engineering designs, identify technical tradeoffs, and communicate recommendations to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience supporting projects through multiple phases, ideally from initial design through construction, commissioning, and operational handoff.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Willingness and ability to travel regularly to project sites throughout the United States, with increased travel during construction and commissioning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering a multi-megawatt data center or other mission-critical facility from concept through commissioning.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license.
- Experience with liquid-cooled GPU clusters or other high-density computing environments.
- Experience converting industrial or existing commercial buildings into data center facilities.
- Experience coordinating with utilities,…