Senior Site Infrastructure Engineer (R5857)

Shield AI; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Site Infrastructure Engineer to plan, design, document, and support physical IT infrastructure across offices, labs, manufacturing facilities, and data centers.

You will lead site buildouts, develop rack layouts, and maintain accurate infrastructure documentation while collaborating with Network, Systems, and Cloud teams to meet compute, storage, and hybrid cloud needs. Expect frequent travel to deploy facilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data center, enterprise site, or physical IT infrastructure engineering.
• Experience designing MDF/IDF environments and sizing infrastructure for new or expanding facilities.
• Strong knowledge of rack design, structured copper/fiber cabling, equipment placement, and physical infrastructure standards.
• Working knowledge of data center power, UPS/PDU, circuit capacity, redundancy and cooling/airflow.

Responsibilities

• Plan and design physical IT infrastructure for offices, labs, manufacturing facilities, and data centers.
• Lead and support new site buildouts, office expansions and relocations, data center deployments, hardware refreshes, and infrastructure moves.
• Develop rack layouts, MDF/IDF requirements, equipment placement plans, and infrastructure BOMs.
• Create and maintain rack elevations, physical connectivity diagrams, equipment records, cable documentation, and DCIM data across office and data center environments.
• Support capacity planning across rack space, site and data center power, cooling, cabling, and equipment growth.
• Administer and improve DCIM/IPAM/CMDB platforms such as Nautobot, NetBox, Device42, or equivalent.
• Establish and maintain physical infrastructure documentation and labeling standards.
• Review floor plans, low-voltage drawings, vendor designs, proposals, and statements of work.
• Coordinate with architects, contractors, colocation providers, carriers, OEMs, and field-service vendors.
• Partner with Network, Systems, and Cloud Engineering teams to ensure site and data center infrastructure supports compute, storage, connectivity, wireless, security, hybrid connectivity, and public cloud requirements.
• Identify capacity constraints, documentation gaps, and opportunities to improve infrastructure standards and processes.
• Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and support teams as needed.

Skills

Data center infra

Site infrastructure design

Rack elevations

DCIM/IPAM/CMDB

Power & cooling design

Low-voltage cabling

Documentation

Vendor coordination

Cross-team collaboration

Travel readiness

Tools

Nautobot

NetBox

Device42

Sunbird

Job description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai . Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn , X , Instagram , and YouTube .

Job Description:

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Site Infrastructure Engineer to plan, design, document, and support physical IT infrastructure across offices, engineering facilities, labs, manufacturing environments, and data centers.

As part of the Cloud & Infrastructure team within Enterprise Operations, this role will help deliver scalable and reliable site infrastructure, including rack layouts, structured cabling, power and cooling capacity, MDF/IDF design, DCIM, equipment sizing, and infrastructure documentation. You will partner closely with Network, Systems, Cloud, Security, Facilities, Workplace, and external vendors to support new site buildouts, expansions, relocations, and data center deployments.

What you’ll do:

• Plan and design physical IT infrastructure for offices, labs, manufacturing facilities, and data centers.
• Lead and support new site buildouts, office expansions and relocations, data center deployments, hardware refreshes, and infrastructure moves.
• Develop rack layouts, MDF/IDF requirements, equipment placement plans, and infrastructure bills of materials.
• Create and maintain accurate rack elevations, physical connectivity diagrams, equipment records, cable documentation, and DCIM data across office and data center environments.
• Support capacity planning across rack space, site and data center power, cooling, cabling, and equipment growth.
• Administer and improve DCIM/IPAM/CMDB platforms such as Nautobot, NetBox, Device42, or equivalent.
• Establish and maintain physical infrastructure documentation and labeling standards to ensure environments remain accurately documented throughout their lifecycle.
• Review floor plans, low-voltage drawings, vendor designs, proposals, and statements of work.
• Coordinate with architects, contractors, colocation providers, carriers, OEMs, and field-service vendors.
• Partner with Network, Systems, and Cloud Engineering teams to ensure site and data center infrastructure supports compute, storage, connectivity, wireless, security, hybrid connectivity, and public cloud requirements.
• Identify capacity constraints, documentation gaps, and opportunities to improve infrastructure standards and processes.
• Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and support teams as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in data center, enterprise site, or physical IT infrastructure engineering.
• Experience designing and supporting infrastructure across offices, data centers, labs, or similar enterprise environments.
• Strong experience creating and maintaining rack elevations, physical infrastructure diagrams, cabling documentation, equipment layouts, and infrastructure records.
• Strong knowledge of rack design, structured copper/fiber cabling, equipment placement, and physical infrastructure standards.
• Strong working knowledge of data center and site power, including A/B power, UPS/PDU systems, circuit capacity, equipment power draw, redundancy, and related cooling/airflow considerations.
• Experience designing MDF/IDF environments and sizing infrastructure for new or expanding facilities.
• Experience with DCIM/IPAM/CMDB platforms such as Nautobot, NetBox, Device42, Sunbird, or similar.
• Working understanding of enterprise networking, including switching, wireless, WAN connectivity, and carrier services.
• Ability to interpret architectural drawings, floor plans, low-voltage designs, and equipment specifications.
• Experience working with colocation providers, low-voltage contractors, carriers, and technology vendors.
• Strong technical documentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to independently execute infrastructure projects from planning through deployment.
• Ability to travel periodically for site and data center deployments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting a geographically distributed or rapidly growing enterprise.
• Experience across offices, engineering labs, manufacturing environments, and colocation data centers.
• Hands-on experience with Nautobot or NetBox for DCIM, IPAM, rack elevations, circuits, and infrastructure documentation.
• Experience supporting data center migrations, expansions, or greenfield site deployments.
• Familiarity with hybrid infrastructure and public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, including connectivity between enterprise sites, data centers, and cloud environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure from vendors such as Juniper, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Dell, APC, or Vertiv.
• Experience developing infrastructure BOMs, cost estimates, lifecycle plans, and capacity forecasts.
• Experience using APIs, scripting, or automation to improve DCIM and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Experience within aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or other regulated environments.
• Relevant certifications such as BICSI, CDCP, CCNA/CCNP, or equivalent.

$110,000 - $210,000 a year

Dallas, Texas pay range: $110,000 - $176,000

Seattle, Washington and San Mateo, California pay range: $140,000 - $210,000

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Full-time regular employee offer package:

Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package:

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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