Chief Data Center Engineer

Chief Data Center Engineer

Location:

Dallas, TX

Type:
Direct Hire

• 100% company-paid benefits
• Relocation assistance available for non-local candidates
• Available equity buyout program

We are seeking a Chief Data Center Engineer to serve as the senior technical authority for a rapidly scaling GPUaaS / CaaS infrastructure company operating at the forefront of high-performance computing, AI infrastructure, and next-generation cloud platforms.

This company is building and scaling advanced compute environments designed to support GPU-intensive workloads, AI/ML platforms, high-density infrastructure, and mission-critical customer deployments. As demand for GPU capacity, high-performance compute, and cloud infrastructure continues to accelerate, the organization is investing heavily in the engineering leadership, technical standards, and infrastructure platforms required to support aggressive growth.

The Chief Data Center Engineer will own the technical direction, engineering standards, infrastructure design philosophy, and lifecycle performance of large-scale data center environments. This is a strategic, hands‑on technical leadership role focused on engineering rigor, scalability, resiliency, operational readiness, and repeatable infrastructure delivery.

This is not a purely executive oversight position. The ideal candidate is a true player-coach engineering leader who can operate at both the systems architecture level and the detailed technical level. This person must be technically credible across electrical, mechanical, cooling, controls, commissioning, resiliency, and operations, while also being able to influence executive stakeholders and guide multidisciplinary teams through complex infrastructure decisions.

• Serve as the senior engineering authority for large-scale GPUaaS / CaaS data center infrastructure programs
• Lead technical decision-making across planning, design, construction, commissioning, turnover, operations, resiliency, and lifecycle optimization
• Establish engineering standards, technical baselines, infrastructure design governance, and repeatable delivery frameworks
• Drive technical consistency across electrical, mechanical, cooling, controls, automation, and resiliency disciplines
• Act as the escalation point for complex design issues, infrastructure constraints, system tradeoffs, technical risks, and operational readiness concerns
• Provide hands‑on technical guidance to internal engineering teams, consultants, EPCM partners, OEMs, vendors, and third‑party technical advisors

• Ensure facility designs support GPU‑intensive workloads, high‑density compute environments, resilient power architectures, advanced cooling strategies, and long‑term operational sustainability
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering reviews focused on integration, scalability, maintainability, performance, safety, reliability, and operational efficiency
• Evaluate emerging infrastructure technologies across liquid cooling, power distribution, controls integration, automation, resiliency, and energy optimization
• Develop technical standards for power architecture, cooling systems, controls integration, system redundancy, equipment selection, and lifecycle reliability
• Partner with engineering consultants, EPCM firms, OEMs, utilities, vendors, and technical partners to validate solutions and resolve design challenges
• Ensure infrastructure decisions align with business growth, customer delivery requirements, platform performance, schedule demands, and long‑term reliability goals

• Own engineering process execution and drive technical delivery across fast‑moving infrastructure development programs
• Align engineering teams around schedule, quality, technical readiness, milestone commitments, commissioning requirements, and operational handoff
• Lead engineering change management, technical risk mitigation, design reviews, QA/QC processes, and lifecycle governance
• Develop and monitor KPIs tied to reliability, efficiency, engineering quality, maintainability, system performance, commissioning…