AI Data Center Design Lead — White Space & HPC

Jacobs; Nashville (TN); 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 data center environments. Initial base in South Carolina, with opportunities in the United States.

The role requires deep expertise in high-density rack design, cooling, power distribution, and network infrastructure, coordinating across electrical, mechanical, structural, and IT disciplines to deliver

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.
• Demonstrated 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.
• Experience delivering projects through concept, detailed design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and operational readiness.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and communicate complex technical issues with clients and senior stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as the senior subject matter expert and technical authority for AI and high-density data center white space design
• Establish and govern white space Basis of Design, design criteria, reference architectures, and technical standards
• Translate GPU, accelerator, HPC, and next-generation IT platform requirements into facility requirements for power, cooling, connectivity, rack configuration, structural loading, service access, and deployment
• Lead data hall layouts, rack deployment strategies, equipment spacing, compute-block planning, capacity utilization, and future expansion planning
• Provide technical direction for white space electrical distribution, including busway, PDU, RPP, rack-level power, redundancy, monitoring, and high-density power architectures
• Lead development of air-cooled, liquid-cooled, and hybrid cooling solutions, including direct-to-chip cooling, CDUs, rack manifolds, technology cooling water interfaces, leak detection, and thermal optimization
• Guide integration of high-density AI network infrastructure, including network racks, high-speed fiber pathways, cable management, InfiniBand, and high-speed Ethernet environments
• Develop and validate capacity models linking facility MW capacity to data hall, compute block, rack, power, cooling, network, and floor-space requirements
• Address rack loading, structural capacity, equipment access, material handling, installation pathways, serviceability, and equipment replacement requirements
• Lead white space constructability, deployment, commissioning, phased energization, turnover, and operational-readiness planning
• Evaluate designs for resiliency, concurrent maintainability, failure isolation, technology refresh, and future increases in rack density
• Lead multidisciplinary coordination across electrical, mechanical, structural, architectural, controls, telecommunications, commissioning, construction, IT, and operations
• Serve as a senior technical interface with clients, technology providers, OEMs, contractors, commissioning teams, and facility operators
• Champion standardized designs, lessons learned, technical governance, modularization, and repeatable deployment strategies across hyperscale programs

Conocimientos

AI data center design

Hyperscale/HPC design

Multidisciplinary leadership

High-density rack deployment

GPU/HPC environments

Rack power distribution

Direct-to-chip cooling

Thermal management

Fiber networks

Capacity modeling

Structural loading

Project delivery lifecycle

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Architecture/Construction Management

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 data center environments. Initial base in South Carolina, with opportunities in the United States.

The role requires deep expertise in high-density rack design, cooling, power distribution, and network infrastructure, coordinating across electrical, mechanical, structural, and IT disciplines to deliver