Principal Structural Engineer – Data Center Infrastructure

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

📋 Description

• Assess structural solutions for technical risks, cost-effectiveness, scheduling, robustness, buildability, and delivery alignment.

• Oversee gravity, wind, seismic, and vibration analyses for modules, frames, racks, and supporting structures.

• Examine MDCs, equipment skids, enclosures, and factory-built assemblies while providing structural recommendations.

• Validate structural solutions for HAC systems across overhead, rack-integrated, and floor-supported configurations.

• Formulate seismic bracing and restraint strategies for MEP systems, cable trays, pipe racks, and modular assemblies.

• Design foundations, steel frames, and anchoring solutions for data center equipment.

• Establish structural strategies for thermal loads, vibration-sensitive equipment, and deflection-managed assemblies.

• Create and maintain DFMEA documentation and optimize product families for weight, manufacturability, cost, and scalability.

• Assist in structural design and coordination for manufacturing facilities and production areas.

• Assess factory layout modifications, equipment installations, capacity expansions, floor loading, crane rails, mezzanines, docks, and material-handling systems.

• Support factory layout and integration, including load paths, transportation loads, installation constraints, DFMA, design templates, and modularization strategies.

• Specify requirements for the transportation, lifting, placement, shipping, and logistics of equipment and skids.

• Collaborate with BIM/Revit teams on integrated, clash-free structural models and master coordination models.

• Engage in multi-discipline coordination reviews and address structural clearances, anchorage zones, and maintenance envelopes.

• Review coordination drawings and uphold structural model quality and LOD standards per the BIM Execution Plan.

• Work alongside fabrication shops and factory teams to ensure designs are feasible, manufacturable, and ready for installation.

• Examine shop drawings, fabrication details, welds, connections, and material specifications.

• Verify lifting, rigging, transportation, and shipping load cases, including temporary bracing.

• Support factory builds, FATs, and field installations; address RFIs, NCRs, and production deviations.

• Generate and review calculations, drawings, specifications, and stamped engineering packages.

• Coordinate with third-party engineering partners and AHJ approvals.

• Ensure adherence to applicable codes, seismic standards, customer requirements, and product certification pathways.

• Contribute to design standards, platform templates, best practices, and lessons-learned documentation.

• Mentor junior engineers, lead design reviews, and act as a technical escalation resource.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Structural Engineering or Civil Engineering (structural emphasis) is required.

• Minimum of 8 years of progressive structural engineering experience, including leadership of complex structural systems in high-availability industrial or mission-critical facilities.

• A Professional Engineer (PE) license is required.

• Demonstrated experience in producing stamped engineering packages, reviewing vendor calculations, and managing AHJ coordination.

• Strongly preferred experience with modular construction, prefabricated data center infrastructure, or factory-built assemblies.

• Familiarity with hyperscale or colocation data center programs and platform-based delivery models is a significant advantage.

• Proficiency in structural analysis software such as SAP2000, ETABS, STAAD, RISA, RAM, or similar tools.

• Working knowledge of IBC, ASCE 7, AISC, ACI, and relevant seismic and non-structural anchorage standards.

• Ability to produce and interpret stamped engineering calculations, shop drawings, and fabrication details across steel, concrete, and connection design.

• Familiarity with fatigue, vibration, and dynamic loading analysis in environments with rotating or sensitive equipment.

• Experience with CAD, PDM, and PLM tools such as SolidWorks, Revit, Windchill, Teamcenter, or equivalent software.

• Familiarity with BIM coordination workflows, clash detection tools (e.g., Navisworks), and LOD standards is a plus.

• Practical understanding of data center infrastructure including MDCs, HAC systems, chillers, generators, UPS, PDUs, and SFN/cooling piping, along with the structural loading, clearance, and anchorage demands they impose.

• Knowledge of ASHRAE, SMACNA, and seismic bracing standards as they apply to MEP systems in mission-critical environments.

• Understanding of modular and prefabricated construction methods, factory build sequences, and OTR shipping constraints for large equipment and skids.

• Awareness of international codes and standards for global deployment programs is an advantage.

• Ability to clearly present and defend technical positions to engineering, manufacturing, and customer stakeholders, both in written and verbal forms.

• Comfortable leading design reviews, resolving cross-discipline conflicts, and making sound engineering decisions under schedule constraints.

• Experience mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team-wide standards and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

• Willingness to travel both domestically and internationally up to 30%.

🏝️ Benefits

• Short-term incentive based on performance.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment.

• 4 weeks of paid parental leave.

• 11 company-paid holidays in 2027 (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays), subject to annual changes.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Employee stock purchase plan.