Staff Mechanical Engineer - Data Center Cooling
Core
Designing and owning cooling-system standards and reference architectures for large-scale AI data centers to support GPU compute clusters.
Role type
Staff Mechanical Engineer (Data Center Cooling)
Builds
Air-cooled, liquid-cooled, and hybrid cooling architectures for greenfield, retrofit, and partner-operated facilities.
Domain
AI Infrastructure / Data Center Thermal Management
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Hydronic design, heat transfer, pumping, heat exchangers, chilled-water systems, heat-rejection equipment, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, P&ID development, engineering calculations, system redundancy design, thermal ride-through analysis, coolant chemistry, materials compatibility, CFD modeling, system commissioning.
Preferred skills
Hyperscale data center cooling design, multi-megawatt liquid-cooled GPU deployments, warm-water cooling, water-side economization, dry coolers, adiabatic heat rejection, ASHRAE TC 9.9 guidance, factory testing, Professional Engineer licensure.
Technologies
CFD, Pipe-Flo, AFT Fathom, Revit
Responsibilities
Design complete thermal paths from GPU to heat rejection; translate server requirements into facility capacity specs; develop and review P&IDs, layouts, and basis-of-design documents; coordinate interfaces across hardware, electrical, controls, and construction; investigate thermal events and failures; travel to project sites and partner facilities.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic standards ownership
