AI Data Center White Space Design Lead

Jacobs; Wilmington (DE); Presencial; USD 166.000 - 228.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan with company matching

Stock purchase plan

Unlimited PPTO for full-time salaried

Seven paid holidays

Caregiver leave

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 based in South Carolina, you will lead architecture, electrical, mechanical, structural, and IT teams, translating GPU/HPC requirements into facility design and guiding scalable cooling, power, and network strategies.

Formación

• 15+ years of relevant engineering/design experience in mission-critical or data center 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

Responsabilidades

• Serve as the senior 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 IT platform requirements into facility requirements for power, cooling, connectivity, rack configuration, 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
• Lead development of air-cooled, liquid-cooled, and hybrid cooling solutions and thermal optimization
• Guide integration of high-density AI network infrastructure and high-speed fiber pathways
• Develop and validate capacity models linking facility MW to data hall, compute block, rack, power, cooling, network, and floor-space requirements
• Address rack loading, structural capacity, equipment access, and installation pathways
• Lead white space constructability, deployment, commissioning, turnover, and operational-readiness planning
• Evaluate designs for resiliency, maintainability, and technology refresh
• Lead coordination across electrical, mechanical, structural, architectural, controls, telecommunications, commissioning, construction, IT, and operations
• Serve as senior technical interface with clients, providers, OEMs, contractors, commissioning teams, and facility operators
• Champion standardized designs, lessons learned, and repeatable deployment strategies across hyperscale programs

Conocimientos

Hyperscale data center design

Leadership of multidisciplinary teams

Communication with senior stakeholders

AI data center knowledge

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Architecture/Construction Management

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 based in South Carolina, you will lead architecture, electrical, mechanical, structural, and IT teams, translating GPU/HPC requirements into facility design and guiding scalable cooling, power, and network strategies.