Senior Data Center Solutions Architect — AI Cooling

Daikin Applied; Colorado; On-site; USD 146,900 - 246,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K retirement plan with employer-mu

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off and holidays

Life insurance and disability

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Daikin Applied, the world’s largest HVAC company, seeks a Solutions Architect for its Data Center of Excellence to lead standardized cooling architectures and influence design decisions from chip to chiller. The role involves direct customer engagement with hyperscalers and enterprises to shape standards and drive architectural strategy.

The position blends engineering depth with commercial impact, enhancing credibility, managing risk through validated architectures, and accelerating product

Qualifications

• BSc in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Industrial or Automation Engineering.
• 10+ years' experience in data center domains.
• Technical expert in at least one major data center domain with cross-domain thinking.
• Experience in mission-critical infrastructure system design.
• Demonstrated expertise in liquid cooling integration and central plant architectures.
• Strong understanding of redundancy models and high-availability system design.
• Working knowledge of plant control strategies and integrated system operation.
• Demonstrated business acumen with lifecycle cost, capital efficiency, and market positioning.
• Experience conducting structured technical and commercial trade studies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and govern standardized cooling reference architectures for AI-focused data center deployments.
• Define system-level topology across liquid cooling, air cooling, plant design, and heat rejection strategies.
• Architect integrated solutions aligning thermal systems, electrical constraints, controls philosophy, and operational resilience.
• Establish design guardrails, scalability boundaries, and redundancy strategies.
• Support PoC testing, performance benchmarking, interoperability validation, and technical demonstrations in the Data Center CoE Innovation Lab in San Diego.
• Lead cross-functional architecture reviews across engineering, product, service, and commercial teams.
• Drive techno-economic trade studies balancing performance, reliability, footprint, manufacturability, and cost.
• Define control philosophy and system orchestration standards across plant equipment and distribution systems.
• Incorporate field feedback and commissioning lessons into architecture evolution to improve products.
• Support customer-facing technical discussions with hyperscale, enterprise, and colocation stakeholders.
• Contribute to long-term product and platform strategy alignment.
• Engage selectively with external stakeholders to position Daikin solutions early in design cycles.
• Strong ability to articulate both system-level architecture and product-level technical detail in executive and customer-facing settings.
• Sales-aware mindset with the ability to influence customer design decisions.

Skills

Liquid cooling

Central plant design

Redundancy modeling

Plant controls

Systems architecture

Trade studies

Executive communication

Cross-domain thinking

Mission-critical infra

Education

BSc Mechanical, electrical, systems, industrial, or automation engineering

Job description

Daikin Applied, the world’s largest HVAC company, seeks a Solutions Architect for its Data Center of Excellence to lead standardized cooling architectures and influence design decisions from chip to chiller. The role involves direct customer engagement with hyperscalers and enterprises to shape standards and drive architectural strategy.

The position blends engineering depth with commercial impact, enhancing credibility, managing risk through validated architectures, and accelerating product