Data Center Facility Thermal Design Engineer - TX, Austin_Research Park, United States
Originally posted 4 March 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 5 October 2026.
About the role
The Data Center Facility Design Engineer leads the end‑to‑end design, construction consultation, and operational readiness of customer data center environments across power, cooling, networking, and facility systems. The role focuses on infrastructure solutions supporting high-density compute and AI cluster deployments.
What you'll do
- Architect and optimize data center cooling systems, including CRAC/CRAH units, chillers, cooling towers, liquid cooling, and airflow management. - Evaluate thermal redundancy strategies, specify capacity management, and monitor cooling performance to comply with heat-load requirements. - Support data center construction projects, covering design reviews, vendor selection, equipment installation, and commissioning. - Author guidelines, functional specifications, design-verification plans, and functional test procedures for rack installation, power provisioning, and structured cabling. - Maintain operational documentation including MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, and facility drawings while liaising with site teams on root-cause analysis and corrective actions. - Coordinate with global suppliers, equipment manufacturers, and contractors across electrical and mechanical disciplines.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related engineering field. - Hands-on expertise in electrical and mechanical systems, redundancy planning, commissioning, and physical network integration. - Experience developing cooling architectures including liquid cooling, chillers, cooling towers, and airflow management. - Experience authoring documentation such as MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, functional specifications, and design-verification plans.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related engineering field. - Experience reviewing drawings and commissioning documentation to ensure compliance with ASHRAE, Uptime Institute, and applicable electrical/mechanical codes. - Experience establishing facility design standards and best practices for AI cluster builds and high-density compute environments.
This role has been open 178 days — well above the 56-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3866
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Median days open
56 d
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Median salary
$126k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (3866 roles · 84 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 10 | 3866 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 50 | 10096 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 13 d | 56 d (−43 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 621 open roles · median 58 d
- Lam Research · 572 open roles · median 39 d
- KLA Corporation · 287 open roles · median 68 d
- Micron Technology · 278 open roles · median 49 d
- ASML · 184 open roles · median 78 d
- ASM International · 156 open roles · median 84 d
How we counted: 3866 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 84 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 26 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.