MEP Cooling Architect

• Competitive compensation aligned with high impact infrastructure leadership
• Remote flexibility with travel to active project sites across the United States
• Direct influence on national scale AI infrastructure initiatives
• Executive level visibility and strategic input
• Opportunity to define next generation liquid cooling standards for AI workloads

• →Architect rack level direct to chip liquid cooling systems supporting 200 kW plus GPU racks
• →Define supply and return temperature strategies, realistic delta T targets, and hydronic stability parameters
• →Design chilled water plants including pump strategies, expansion systems, pressurization schemes, and cooling tower integration
• →Validate CDU flow ranges, pressure envelopes, and facility loop integration
• →Model thermal storage strategies that bridge utility loss and generator startup events
• →Ensure cooling systems meet Tier 3 equivalent concurrent maintainability standards
• →Identify and mitigate hydraulic instability risks before production deployment
• →Develop condensation prevention strategies and dew point control frameworks
• →Evaluate and compare emerging cooling approaches including warm water systems, rear door heat exchangers, immersion cooling, and future high density rack envelopes
• →Design multi POD deployments that avoid cross POD thermal coupling
• →Develop operating procedures for steady state, maintenance, failure events, and seasonal transitions
• →Lead commissioning efforts and validate sustained performance under real GPU load conditions
• →Produce clear piping and instrumentation diagrams, redundancy models, and failure scenario documentation
• →Mentor site MEP teams on cooling behavior, troubleshooting, and safe operational practices

• Ten or more years of experience designing data center or mission critical cooling systems
• Hands on experience with liquid cooling for high density compute environments
• Proven background designing chilled water systems in high power density applications
• Strong foundation in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and hydraulic modeling
• Experience with cooling towers, economizers, and VFD driven pump systems
• Commissioning and troubleshooting experience under sustained high load conditions
• Exposure to AI, HPC, or large-scale GPU training environments
• Experience integrating CDU systems into facility loops
• Experience designing concurrently maintainable or Tier 3 equivalent cooling architectures
• Background in modular or containerized data center deployments
• Familiarity with industry liquid cooling guidelines and best practices
• Experience supporting MW scale modular infrastructure rollouts

• Systems thinker who anticipates failure modes before they surface
• Comfortable defending tradeoffs with clear thermodynamic reasoning
• Understands synchronized AI load behavior and its impact on thermal stability
• Able to scale designs from single POD deployments to national multi-site rollouts
• Communicates complex hydraulic and thermal concepts clearly across technical and executive audiences

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