Senior Data Center Sales Engineer NYC Travel

LHH Recruitment Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity opportunity

401(k)

Annual wellness stipend

Annual bonus/commission

Job summary

LHH Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Center Sales Engineer for a rapidly growing infrastructure organization. This is a highly visible, customer-facing technical role supporting sale and delivery of large-scale data center capacity.

The position is remote, with an expectation to work from the New York City headquarters approximately one week per month. Travel to customer locations and prospect meetings may be required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data centers, mission-critical infrastructure, MEP engineering, or a related environment.
• Strong understanding of large-scale data center infrastructure and facility design.
• Broad technical knowledge across electrical systems, power distribution, cooling systems, mechanical infrastructure, redundancy, and MEP.
• Experience working directly with customers, technical stakeholders, engineering teams, or infrastructure organizations.
• Experience supporting complex RFP/RFI responses involving technical or engineering content.
• Ability to translate highly technical concepts into clear customer-facing solutions and presentations.
• Experience coordinating across engineering, design, construction, development, and commercial teams.
• Familiarity with colocation, hyperscale, or other large-scale mission-critical data center environments strongly preferred.
• Understanding of evolving compute infrastructure and its impact on power density, cooling, and electrical requirements.
• Familiarity with liquid cooling and high-density AI/HPC environments is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary technical resource throughout the data center sales cycle.
• Participate in customer and prospect meetings to identify technical requirements and evaluate solution fit.
• Present data center electrical, mechanical, cooling, power, redundancy, and facility design capabilities to customer technical teams.
• Translate customer requirements related to power density, redundancy, timelines, cooling, and site capabilities into actionable technical solutions.
• Partner with Sales, Engineering, Design, Development, and Construction teams to ensure proposed solutions are technically feasible and executable.
• Lead technical responses for complex RFPs and RFIs.
• Develop conceptual designs, technical documentation, capacity models, system diagrams, and supporting proposal materials.
• Identify potential deviations from established design standards and coordinate internally to evaluate feasibility, cost, and schedule impact.
• Answer detailed technical questions regarding data center power, cooling, electrical distribution, capacity, and infrastructure during customer meetings.
• Support development of reusable technical proposal materials and standardized customer-facing documentation.
• Stay current on evolving data center technologies, including high-density computing, liquid cooling, AI/HPC infrastructure, and changing rack and chip architectures.
• Maintain strong coordination across multiple concurrent customer opportunities, technical workstreams, and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Data center infrastructure

Customer-facing communication

Technical sales engineering

RFP/RFI responses

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Job description

LHH Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Center Sales Engineer for a rapidly growing infrastructure organization. This is a highly visible, customer-facing technical role supporting sale and delivery of large-scale data center capacity.

The position is remote, with an expectation to work from the New York City headquarters approximately one week per month. Travel to customer locations and prospect meetings may be required.