Senior Datacenter Engineer
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time as required.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in an Engineering or Business field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license.
- 8 years of experience designing, constructing, commissioning, or operating large-scale mission-critical facilities and data center systems (e.g., cooling plants, fire suppression, water/sewer).
- Experience with sustainable mechanical systems design, water treatment, and recycling.
- Experience in mechanical design principles for medium-scale production, complex modular building assemblies, structural elements, and tolerance analysis.
- Knowledge of international building codes and operational construction safety procedures.
About the job
Our thirst for technology is a part of everything we do. The Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future. Our lab mirrors a research and development department -- cutting-edge strategies are born, tested and tested again. Along with a team of great minds, you take on complex topics like how we use power or how to run state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly facilities. You're a visionary who optimizes for efficiencies and never stops seeking improvements -- even small changes that can make a huge impact. You generate ideas, communicate recommendations to senior-level executives and drive implementation alongside facilities technicians.
With your technical expertise, you ensure compliance with codes and standards, develop infrastructure improvements and serve as an expert in your specialty (e.g., cooling, electrical).
In this role, you will apply your deep technical expertise to oversee data center infrastructure projects from initial site due diligence through design, construction, and operational support. You will drive the technical design and review of mission-critical facilities—including HVAC, heat rejection, water supply and drainage, fire protection, and utility interfacing—while partnering closely with external Architects and Engineers. Leveraging advanced methodologies such as computational fluid dynamics, pipe stress analysis, and AI-driven insights, you will ensure all designs meet Google's stringent requirements and scalable programmatic principles.
The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.
We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design and review of critical mechanical systems (HVAC, fire protection, plumbing) for data center projects and infrastructure upgrades.
- Resolve complex, program-level mechanical issues through close collaboration with cross-functional teams, internal product groups, and external vendors.
- Localize global designs to satisfy regional regulations, driving optimal engineering execution across safety, quality, schedule, and cost for APAC facilities.
- Drive innovation by proposing sustainable mechanical designs and overseeing factory witness testing for crucial equipment.
- Update and maintain internal design specifications and standards, seamlessly integrating continuous improvements and lessons learned into future builds.
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