Liquid-Cooling Specialist - Datacenter - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$60,000 - $120,750 USD yearly
Originally posted 3 August 2026 by the employer.
Support and manage liquid cooling infrastructure across datacenter engineering labs.
About the role
This role supports and manages the liquid cooling infrastructure across NVIDIA's datacenter engineering labs, ensuring reliable operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of liquid-cooled systems that support the development and validation of datacenter products.
What you'll do
- Work with engineering, lab operations, facilities, and site services teams to understand liquid cooling needs.
- Install, configure, maintain, and fix CDUs, facility water connections, manifolds, hoses, pumps, valves, quick disconnects, sensors, and related cooling equipment.
- Perform preventive maintenance, inspections, leak testing, coolant quality checks, system health monitoring, and incident response for liquid cooling infrastructure.
- Maintain cooling equipment inventory, SOPs, maintenance schedules, infrastructure documentation, and compliance with lab safety and EH&S requirements.
- Assemble, build and install bench top development platforms and large server systems.
- Run system tests, collect and report on testing results; screen modules and boards as part of validation testing and debug.
What you'll need
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Solid understanding of engineering design principles, mechanical systems, and liquid cooling infrastructure.
- 5+ years of experience supporting engineering labs, datacenter environments, hardware validation labs, or facilities operations.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with liquid cooling, facility water systems, chilled water systems, HVAC, or industrial cooling.
- Working knowledge of CDUs, pumps, valves, heat exchangers, manifolds, tubing, quick disconnects, sensors, coolant loops, and facility water connections.
- Strong mechanical solving, organization, communication, and prioritization skills.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting liquid-cooled AI, HPC, or high-density datacenter server platforms.
- Familiarity with datacenter cooling architectures, facility water systems, chilled water systems, BMS, and thermal management technologies.
- Experience reviewing cooling health data such as flow rate, pressure, temperature, coolant quality, alarms, and system trends.
- Experience with leak detection, automated alerting, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and long-term reliability improvements.
- Experience improving lab processes, coordinating vendors, supporting safety programs, or helping expand liquid cooling infrastructure.
Skills: liquid cooling, datacenter engineering labs, CDUs, preventive maintenance, lab operations
This role has been open 71 days — well above the 53-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
2514
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$97k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (2514 roles · 80 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 23 | 2514 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 48 | 9862 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 38 d | 53 d (−15 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $97k |
Skills observed across this category: liquid cooling, datacenter engineering labs, CDUs, preventive maintenance, lab operations
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 396 open roles · median 79 d
- Applied Materials · 252 open roles · median 39 d
- Entegris · 225 open roles · median 38 d
- Lam Research · 108 open roles · median 60 d
- Infineon Technologies · 90 open roles · median 58 d
- STMicroelectronics · 69 open roles · median 54 d
How we counted: 2514 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 80 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 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.