Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Lead, cultivate, and expand a team of infrastructure engineering subject matter experts across various disciplines, including architecture, electrical, mechanical, cooling, structural, civil, controls, and network infrastructure.

• Create and implement Volta's engineering design standards and specifications for AI factories across all projects and regions.

• Contribute engineering insights to Volta's Reference Design for AI factory infrastructure.

• Assist ongoing projects from their initial concept through detailed design, construction, and commissioning phases.

• Quickly resolve technical challenges to avoid delays in delivery.

• Collaborate with the CTO and CPO organizations to ensure facility design meets compute, rack, and network requirements.

• Monitor the evolution of AI hardware, including rack densities, liquid cooling, and power architectures.

• Oversee engineering governance, which encompasses design reviews, technical assurance, and design authority.

• Work alongside Procurement to standardize specifications for long-lead equipment, framework agreements, prefabrication, and modular delivery.

• Advocate for safety, reliability, maintainability, energy efficiency, and water efficiency in facility design.

• Integrate lessons learned from delivery and operations into engineering standards.

• Provide engineering status updates, risk assessments, and decision reports to the VP of Development and Design and the executive team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree in electrical, mechanical, civil, or building services engineering.

• Extensive experience in data center or mission-critical infrastructure engineering, including senior leadership roles within multidisciplinary engineering teams.

• Profound technical expertise in at least one core discipline, such as power distribution or cooling.

• Strong familiarity with all infrastructure disciplines.

• Proven track record in developing and implementing design standards, reference designs, or basis of design documents for hyperscale, colocation, or large-scale data center developers.

• Practical experience with high-density and liquid-cooled environments tailored for AI and HPC workloads.

• Understanding of how GPU cluster requirements influence facility design.

• Strong commercial acumen, effectively balancing capex, schedule, reliability, and operability in design decisions.

• Confident in executive-level communication, capable of clearly articulating complex technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Chartered or professional engineer status, such as CEng or PE, is preferred.

• Experience with North American and European projects, or with utility-scale power, onsite generation, or energy storage, is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity in Volta, offering you a chance to participate in the company's long-term success.

• Retirement/pension contributions.

• Comprehensive health, wellness, and insurance benefits.

• Generous vacation days each year.

• Discretionary bonus.

• Extensive benefits package.

• Global team benefits that vary by country due to local regulations.