Water Engineer

Storm4; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Storm4 is recruiting a Lead Reliability Engineer specializing in Water Chemistry to own the water chemistry strategy for a multi-gigawatt hyperscale portfolio. You will lead root cause investigations and set fleet-wide standards for water treatment and cooling system reliability across large-scale data center developments.

The role demands deep expertise in closed-loop water treatment, metallurgy, and reliability engineering, with emphasis on hydro/AI cooling environments and enterprise

Qualifications

• Strong experience with closed-loop water treatment and hydronic cooling systems.
• Background in water chemistry, corrosion control, metallurgy, or reliability engineering.
• Experience within data centers, hyperscale, semiconductor, nuclear, or other critical environments.
• Ability to perform technical root cause analysis and provide enterprise-level guidance.
• Coolant chemistry expertise.
• High-density AI environments.

Responsibilities

• Own water chemistry strategy across a multi-gigawatt hyperscale portfolio
• Lead root cause investigations involving corrosion, scale, contamination, and cooling system failures
• Establish fleet-wide standards for water treatment and cooling system reliability
• Partner with Engineering, Construction, and Operations teams on new campus developments
• Drive vendor governance and water treatment program performance
• Support the deployment of advanced liquid cooling technologies for AI workloads

Skills

Water chemistry

Corrosion control

Metallurgy

Reliability engineering

Root cause analysis

Liquid cooling

Hydronic cooling

AI infrastructure

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline

Job description

Job Title: Lead Reliability Engineer, Water Chemistry

About the Opportunity

We're partnered with one of North America's fastest-growing digital infrastructure platforms.

Operating 5GW+ across 50+ campuses, the company is delivering some of the largest hyperscale and AI-focused data center developments in the market today. With a proven growth trajectory and plans to increase capacity by 7x by 2030, this is a unique opportunity to join a business at the centre of the AI infrastructure boom.

The successful candidate will become the enterprise SME for water chemistry, helping protect and optimise billions of dollars of mission-critical infrastructure while influencing the next generation of liquid cooling and high-density compute environments.

The role offers significant long-term growth, whether that's building and leading a specialist team or progressing toward a Staff/Principal Engineer career path.

• Own water chemistry strategy across a multi-gigawatt hyperscale portfolio
• Lead root cause investigations involving corrosion, scale, contamination, and cooling system failures
• Establish fleet-wide standards for water treatment and cooling system reliability
• Partner with Engineering, Construction, and Operations teams on new campus developments
• Drive vendor governance and water treatment program performance
• Support the deployment of advanced liquid cooling technologies for AI workloads
• Strong experience with closed-loop water treatment and hydronic cooling systems
• Background in water chemistry, corrosion control, metallurgy, or reliability engineering
• Experience within data centers, hyperscale, semiconductor, nuclear, or other critical environments
• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline
• Ability to perform technical root cause analysis and provide enterprise-level guidance
• Coolant chemistry expertise
• High-density AI environments
• Advanced water treatment program development
• Join a platform targeting 8x growth by 2030
• Influence some of the largest AI and hyperscale developments in North America
• Become the technical authority for water chemistry across a multi-gigawatt portfolio
• Clear progression into Engineering Management or Principal-level engineering leadership
• Work on cutting-edge liquid cooling technologies shaping the future of AI infrastructure

Full details will be shared with shortlisted candidates.