Mechanical Engineer – AI Factory

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Lead the development of data center products and facilities, ensuring a balance between cost, energy efficiency, schedule, and sustainability while incorporating new technologies.

• Take ownership of the mechanical systems strategy and development, including liquid cooling, chiller plants, heat rejection, CDUs, and airside/hydronic systems, from initial concept through construction administration and commissioning.

• Produce design documentation and oversee execution throughout all project phases (SD, DD, CD, CA) for greenfield, leased, and retrofit projects.

• Collaborate with civil/structural, electrical, connectivity, controls, and hardware engineering teams to ensure that rack-level thermal requirements are aligned with facility design, optimized for cost, speed, efficiency, and flexibility.

• Propel prefabricated and modular construction strategies and establish build-to-break-ground schedules to expedite deployment.

• Serve as NVIDIA’s owner’s representative: hold engineer-of-record teams accountable, prepare RFPs, manage contracts, and review change orders, submittals, RFIs, and value-engineering proposals.

• Engage in factory witness testing, commissioning, and quality verification, and facilitate the handover and knowledge transfer into live operations.

• Assess emerging technologies, standards, and sustainability targets (energy and water modeling), assist in site selection and master planning, and promote reliability and availability practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.

• Over 12 years of mechanical engineering experience in support of critical facilities or large-scale data centers.

• Demonstrated expertise in liquid cooling systems, chiller plant development, and/or hydronic system development.

• Experience in leading large-scale mechanical infrastructure programs from concept through construction and commissioning.

• Familiarity with all phases of design delivery (schematic design, design development, etc.).

• Strong capability to communicate technical concepts effectively in writing and presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences, including build reviews and executive briefings.

• Experience with prefabricated and modular construction (build for manufacturing and assembly), as well as operations and deployment handover for data center mechanical systems.

• Background in hardware thermal engineering, including thermal build validation and product reliability, with extensive expertise in availability and reliability engineering for critical infrastructure.

• Proficient in controls systems (BMS/EPMS integration, mechanical controls logic), electrical and MEP integration, and acoustics/noise engineering and regulatory compliance for mechanical equipment.

• Familiarity with advanced simulation, modeling, or AI-driven build optimization tools.

• A Professional Engineer (PE) license in Mechanical Engineering is required.

• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and representing owner interests on large capital programs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Benefits