AI Data Center Design Lead – White Space

Jacobs; Providence (RI); Presencial; USD 166.000 - 228.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Design Manager – AI Data Center White Space Design to provide technical leadership for planning, design, construction, commissioning, and deployment of large-scale, high-density data center environments. Initially base in South Carolina, with opportunities to influence global hyperscale programs.

You will lead as a senior SME, setting design standards, translating AI/GPU requirements into facility specs, and coordinating across electrical, mechanical, and IT teams to

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant engineering/design experience, with significant experience in mission-critical or data center facilities.
• Proven 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 working knowledge of high-density rack and compute architectures; busway, PDU, RPP, and rack-level power distribution; direct-to-chip cooling and CDUs; air/liquid hybrid cooling; high-density network infrastructure; capacity modeling.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as the senior technical authority for AI and high-density data center white space design.
• Establish Basis of Design, design criteria, reference architectures, and technical standards.
• Translate GPU/HPC requirements into facility requirements for power, cooling, connectivity, and rack deployment.
• Lead data hall layouts, rack deployment strategies, and capacity utilization planning.
• Provide technical direction for power distribution and high-density architectures across racks.
• Lead development of cooling solutions, including direct-to-chip cooling, CDUs, and rack manifolds.
• Guide integration of high-density network infrastructure and InfiniBand/Ethernet environments.
• Develop and validate capacity models linking facility MW to data hall capacity and floor space.
• Address rack loading, structural capacity, and equipment replacement requirements.
• Lead constructability, deployment, and operational-readiness planning across projects.
• Evaluate designs for resiliency and future rack density increases.
• Coordinate across electrical, mechanical, structural, architectural, controls, IT, and operations teams.
• Interface with clients, technology providers, OEMs, contractors, and facility operators.

Conocimientos

Hyperscale data centers

HPC environments

AI-focused design

High-density deployment

Multidisciplinary leadership

Educación

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

Herramientas

BIM

DCIM

BMS

EPMS

Descripción del empleo

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Design Manager – AI Data Center White Space Design to provide technical leadership for planning, design, construction, commissioning, and deployment of large-scale, high-density data center environments. Initially base in South Carolina, with opportunities to influence global hyperscale programs.

You will lead as a senior SME, setting design standards, translating AI/GPU requirements into facility specs, and coordinating across electrical, mechanical, and IT teams to