Senior AI Data Center White Space Design Lead

Jacobs; Greenville (SC); On-site; USD 166,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off (PPTO)

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Design Manager – AI Data Center White Space Design to lead planning, design, construction, commissioning, and deployment of large-scale, high-density data center environments in the United States. Initial placement is in South Carolina.

The role requires 15+ years in mission-critical facilities, experience with hyperscale, AI, or HPC environments, and the ability to translate AI/accelerator requirements into facility solutions spanning power, cooling, and networks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline
• 15+ years of relevant engineering/design experience, with significant experience in mission-critical or data center facilities
• Demonstrated 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
• Strong working knowledge of high-density rack and compute architectures
• Busway, PDU, RPP, and rack-level power distribution
• Direct-to-chip liquid cooling and CDUs
• Air/liquid hybrid cooling and thermal management
• High-density fiber and network infrastructure
• Capacity modeling and utilization
• Rack structural loading and equipment deployment
• Experience delivering projects through concept, detailed design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and operational readiness
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and communicate complex technical issues with clients and senior stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior subject matter expert 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, structural loading, service access, 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, technology cooling water interfaces, leak detection, 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, phased energization, 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
• Champion standardized designs, lessons learned, technical governance, modularization, and repeatable deployment strategies across hyperscale programs

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Design Manager – AI Data Center White Space Design to lead planning, design, construction, commissioning, and deployment of large-scale, high-density data center environments in the United States. Initial placement is in South Carolina.

The role requires 15+ years in mission-critical facilities, experience with hyperscale, AI, or HPC environments, and the ability to translate AI/accelerator requirements into facility solutions spanning power, cooling, and networks.