Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The client is focused on accelerating the development of aligned AI by delivering large-scale compute infrastructure through integrated hardware and software teams. The Principal Mechanical Operations Engineer will serve as the senior technical authority for mechanical and cooling infrastructure across a hyperscale AI data-center fleet, leading readiness assessments, commissioning handoffs, operational standards, and root-cause analysis of significant cooling events.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the most senior technical authority for operational mechanical and cooling infrastructure across client’s hyperscale AI data-center fleet
- Lead site assessments, operational audits, and technical-readiness efforts before site activation
- Review designs and specifications from an operational perspective and feed learnings back into design and manufacturing
- Serve as the senior technical voice on chillers, cooling towers, CDUs, and liquid-cooling architectures
- Own mechanical operational readiness and commissioning-to-operations handoffs for new sites
- Author and approve high-risk mechanical MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs
- Lead root-cause analysis for significant cooling events through closure
Skills
- Remote in US with 50-70% travel
- Career experience operating critical mechanical systems with a strong understanding of thermal precision for AI workloads
- Strong command of chilled water systems, chillers, cooling towers, CRAH/CRAC units, pumps, CDUs, and direct liquid cooling in live environments
- Experience authoring and executing high-risk mechanical MOPs
- Experience leading root-cause analysis for significant cooling events
- Ability to assess operational readiness, audit site posture, and raise technical standards
- Strong ability to teach and build the mechanical readiness of teams before activation
- Preferred experience with hyperscale or large colocation environments operating at hundreds of megawatts
- Preferred experience with direct liquid cooling, CDU operations, ASHRAE TC 9.9, chilled-water plant optimization, and Uptime Institute standards
Benefits
- Remote in US with 50-70% travel
- Full-Time, Direct Hire
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