AI Data Center Design Lead: High-Density HPC & Cooling

Jacobs; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 166,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Design Manager – AI Data Center White Space Design to provide technical leadership for the planning, design, construction, commissioning, and deployment of large-scale, high-density data center environments. Initially, this role will be based in South Carolina.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams across electrical, mechanical, structural, architectural, and IT disciplines, establish design criteria, and translate AI compute requirements into facility power, cooling

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant engineering/design experience in mission-critical facilities
• Experience leading hyperscale, HPC, high-density, or AI-focused data center white space design
• Direct experience with high-density rack deployment and GPU/HPC compute environments
• Strong knowledge of high-density rack and compute architectures, power distribution, and cooling
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and communicate complex technical issues with clients

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior SME and technical authority for AI data center white space design
• Establish design criteria, reference architectures, and technical standards
• Translate GPU/HPC requirements into facility power, cooling, and layout specs
• Lead data hall layouts, rack deployment, and capacity planning
• Guide integration of high-density network infrastructure and fiber pathways
• Develop capacity models linking MW capacity to data hall needs
• Lead constructability, deployment, and operational readiness planning
• Collaborate across electrical, mechanical, structural, architectural, and IT teams

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project management

Technical authority

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline

Tools

BIM

Digital twins

DCIM

BMS

EPMS

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Design Manager – AI Data Center White Space Design to provide technical leadership for the planning, design, construction, commissioning, and deployment of large-scale, high-density data center environments. Initially, this role will be based in South Carolina.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams across electrical, mechanical, structural, architectural, and IT disciplines, establish design criteria, and translate AI compute requirements into facility power, cooling