Global AI Infrastructure Engineering Director

Volta; United States; Remote; USD 320,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Volta

Retirement/pension contributions

Comprehensive health, wellbeing and保险

Generous vacation days

Job summary

Volta, a global AI infrastructure company, seeks a Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering to lead engineering across its global AI factory portfolio. You will report to the VP of Development and Design and build a team spanning electrical, mechanical, cooling, structural, and network disciplines to scale Volta’s infrastructure.

You will own engineering design standards, deploy across EMEA and AMER, shape reference designs, and partner with the CTO and CPO to ensure consistent turn-up of

Qualifications

• Degree in electrical, mechanical, civil or building services engineering, with chartered or professional engineer status preferred.
• Significant experience in data centre or mission critical infrastructure engineering, including senior leadership of multidisciplinary teams.
• Deep technical expertise in at least one core discipline, such as power distribution or cooling.
• Track record developing and deploying design standards, reference designs or basis of design documents for a hyperscale, colocation or large scale data centre developer
• Hands on experience with high density and liquid cooled environments for AI and HPC workloads, and an understanding of how GPU cluster requirements drive facility design
• Strong commercial judgement, balancing capex, schedule, reliability and operability in design decisions
• Confident executive level communication, able to explain complex technical trade offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A collaborative leadership style that builds trust with peers across partner teams, and the conviction to hold the line on standards
• Exposure to both North American and European projects, or to utility scale power, onsite generation or energy storage, would be an advantage

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and grow a team of infrastructure engineering SMEs across architecture, electrical, mechanical, cooling, structural, civil, controls and network infrastructure disciplines, building the capability to support a fast growing global pipeline
• Develop and deploy Volta’s engineering design standards and specifications for AI factories, making sure they are applied consistently across every project and region
• Work with peers in the Design organisation to provide engineering input into Volta’s Reference Design for AI factory infrastructure, balancing performance, cost, speed of delivery and scalability
• Support live projects with engineering expertise from concept through detailed design, construction and commissioning, resolving technical issues quickly so delivery is never held up
• Partner with the CTO and CPO organisations to align facility design with compute, rack and network requirements, enabling consistent turn up of compute across the portfolio
• Track the evolution of AI hardware, including rack densities, liquid cooling and power architectures, and translate it into design standards that keep Volta’s AI factories ready for next generation compute
• Own engineering governance, including design reviews, technical assurance and design authority for any departure from standard
• Work with Procurement to standardise specifications for long lead equipment, enabling framework agreements, prefabrication and modular delivery at scale
• Champion safety in design, reliability, maintainability and energy and water efficiency, working with Operations to design for how our facilities will be run
• Embed lessons learned from delivery and operations back into the standards, so every AI factory builds faster, safer and more efficiently than the last
• Provide engineering status, risk and decision reporting to the VP, Development and Design and the executive team

Skills

Data center infra leadership

Power distribution expertise

Cooling systems expertise

Design standards deployment

Multidisciplinary team leadership

Executive communication

Standards governance

North America / Europe exposure

Education

Engineering degree (electrical/mechanical/civil/building services)

Chartered/PE status preferred

Job description

Volta, a global AI infrastructure company, seeks a Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering to lead engineering across its global AI factory portfolio. You will report to the VP of Development and Design and build a team spanning electrical, mechanical, cooling, structural, and network disciplines to scale Volta’s infrastructure.

You will own engineering design standards, deploy across EMEA and AMER, shape reference designs, and partner with the CTO and CPO to ensure consistent turn-up of