Senior AI Data Center Design Lead

Jacobs; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 166,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Basic life insurance

401(k) plan

Stock purchase at discount

Deferred compensation plan

Executive Deferral Plan

Unlimited PPTO

7 paid holidays

Caregiver leave

Merit increases

Performance discretionary bonus

Stock

Job summary

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. Initial assignment in South Carolina with a focus on AI/GPU-driven workloads.

The role requires 15+ years in engineering/design within mission-critical facilities, leading hyperscale/data center projects, and delivering through concept to operations while coordinating

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant engineering/design experience, with significant data center facilities exposure.
• Demonstrated leadership of hyperscale, HPC, high-density, or AI-focused data center white space design.
• Direct experience with high-density rack deployment and GPU/HPC compute environments.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and communicate complex technical issues with clients and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior SME 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, 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, 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, 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.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Data center design

Hyperscale / AI data center

High-density rack deployment

GPU/HPC compute environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline

Tools

BIM

Digital twins

DCIM

BMS

EPMS

Job description

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. Initial assignment in South Carolina with a focus on AI/GPU-driven workloads.

The role requires 15+ years in engineering/design within mission-critical facilities, leading hyperscale/data center projects, and delivering through concept to operations while coordinating