Data Center Thermal Architect for AI Infrastructure & Cooling

Dell Technologies Inc.; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies Inc. is seeking a Technical Staff, Data Center Thermal Architect within the Infrastructure Solutions Group to shape next-generation AI infrastructure.

You will collaborate on the architecture of large-scale systems, including air and liquid cooling, power distribution, and integrated rack solutions, driving both performance and efficiency across enterprise data centers. In this role, you will engage with customers and partners, define long-term technology strategies, and

Qualifications

• Experience collaborating with customers on architectural and design requirements spanning IT Systems to Datacenter Thermal technologies.
• Advanced working knowledge of heat transfer and the ability to analyze component/system level problems and apply advanced cooling technologies.
• Solid understanding and knowledge of and relationships with key suppliers of data center power and thermal management components.
• Ability to collaborate with Dell's technology partners and supply base on cutting edge technology development and work with ODMs on mechanical, thermal & electrical aspects of system design.
• Understanding of the competitive and business needs while developing technical solutions including knowledge of manufacturing processes and the tolerance control requirements for high volume production environments, and author architecture specification to be a guiding light for development of future products.
• Experience interfacing effectively with suppliers to ensure they are both doing research and providing information on products or services that have value to the company, instigating and coordinating these efforts as necessary on a continual basis.
• Ability to understand business needs while developing technical solutions; need to be able to travel 20%-30% to assess customer requirements and develop blueprints.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for driving the architecture of end-to-end solutions from server to data center, including air and liquid cooled servers, integrated rack solutions, power distribution and heat rejection.
• Innovate power-centric solutions for increasingly dense IT environments.
• Optimize cost, energy efficiency and performance from IT to the datacenter.
• Engage with high profile AI customers to optimize solutions for their applications and tune the system for maximum performance.
• Develop solution Overview and validate with Engineering.
• Propose BOM/ SKUs to meet technical requirements and review with Engineering & shape the offer accordingly.
• Design Air, Liquid and other cooling solutions based on Datacenter and customer requirements.
• Drive hardware design based on customer requirements and required infrastructure. Address liquid cooling solutions and other platform engineering aspects that scale based on datacenter requirements.
• Define hardware topologies that are optimized for efficiency and performance for AI workloads.

Skills

Architectural design

IT systems

Datacenter thermal

Heat transfer

Supplier relations

ODM collaboration

Travel 20-30%

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on thermal science

Job description

Dell Technologies Inc. is seeking a Technical Staff, Data Center Thermal Architect within the Infrastructure Solutions Group to shape next-generation AI infrastructure.

You will collaborate on the architecture of large-scale systems, including air and liquid cooling, power distribution, and integrated rack solutions, driving both performance and efficiency across enterprise data centers. In this role, you will engage with customers and partners, define long-term technology strategies, and