AI Data Center MEP Lead - Owner's Engineer

Metric DCX; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Company-paid life insurance and short/

Job summary

Metric DCX is seeking an owner's-side MEP Systems Engineer to translate hyperscale AI cluster requirements into facility design standards and hold every design to them. You will own basis of design for power, coolant loops, redundancy, and BMS/EPMS controls, ensuring AI-readiness of designs from shell to room level.

You will lead design reviews, drive vendor evaluation for major MEP systems, and oversee commissioning through turnover, while pushing for prefabricated assemblies to save schedule

Qualifications

• 10+ years in mechanical/electrical engineering for data centers or critical facilities in either design, commissioning, or owner's engineering with deep working knowledge of NEC, NFPA, IEEE, ASHRAE standards and BMS/EPMS systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the facility basis of design: power distribution, direct-to-chip liquid cooling (CDUs, cooling loops, water quality), heat rejection, electrical redundancy, and BMS/EPMS controls.
• Translate AI hardware requirements into rack, row, and room-level facility specs, and keep standards current as hardware evolves.
• Review third-party site designs (powered shells, build-to-suit, colo) for AI-readiness, giving clear accept/modify/reject calls with cost implications.
• Lead design reviews with architects/engineers, pushing toward prefabricated and factory-built assemblies for schedule and cost savings.
• Drive equipment selection and vendor evaluation for major MEP systems (switchgear, UPS, generators, CDUs, chillers).
• Own commissioning from the owner's side through to first-time-right turnover.
• Act as escalation engineer for operating sites providing root cause analysis, corrective designs, & retrofits.

Skills

Data center engineering

Owner-side engineering experience

Standards compliance (NEC NFPA IEEE AS

Job description

Metric DCX is seeking an owner's-side MEP Systems Engineer to translate hyperscale AI cluster requirements into facility design standards and hold every design to them. You will own basis of design for power, coolant loops, redundancy, and BMS/EPMS controls, ensuring AI-readiness of designs from shell to room level.

You will lead design reviews, drive vendor evaluation for major MEP systems, and oversee commissioning through turnover, while pushing for prefabricated assemblies to save schedule