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Data Center Infrastructure Architect

Location

San Francisco

Contract

Permanent

Full-time

Salary

$257–327k

Gross per year

Experience

Not specified

Job summary

Responsibilities

We are seeking a senior, hands-on Data Center Infrastructure Architect to develop and optimize the physical infrastructure required for large-scale AI deployments.

  • Define system-level architectures for high-density AI data centers across power, cooling, IT equipment, controls, and facility infrastructure.
  • Develop digital twins and other computational models that represent the behavior of data center systems under changing workloads, environmental conditions, equipment…
  • Use design and operational data to identify constraints, improve PUE and related efficiency metrics, and optimize capacity, reliability, water consumption, cost, and deployment…
  • Evaluate tradeoffs across electrical topology, cooling architecture, rack density, redundancy, controls, maintainability, constructability, and operational complexity.
  • Translate evolving AI hardware requirements into practical facility, rack, power, and thermal architectures.

What they're looking for

  • Significant experience designing or optimizing hyperscale data centers, large mission-critical facilities, or comparable infrastructure systems.
  • Broad knowledge of data center electrical and mechanical systems, including power distribution, backup power, thermal management, liquid cooling, heat rejection, controls, and…
  • Experience making system-level design decisions across multiple engineering disciplines.
  • Experience developing or applying simulation, optimization, digital-twin, or physics-based modeling techniques to physical infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of data center efficiency and performance metrics, including PUE, WUE, utilization, capacity, reliability, and total cost of ownership.

Tech stack

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