Principal Structural Design Engineer - Data Center Infrastructure

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

The Senior Structural Engineer is a hands‑on senior individual contributor responsible for structural engineering ownership of product structures supporting CDU, switch gear, and related data center infrastructure equipment, including frames, enclosures, skids, and anchorage systems. This role ensures that structures meet all load, seismic, transport, installation, and operational requirements across global deployment environments. The position provides authoritative structural analysis, design validation, and code compliance, while ensuring structural intent is accurately captured in CAD models and released documentation.

The role requires a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) with deep experience in structural systems supporting heavy electrical and mechanical equipment. Close collaboration with mechanical, manufacturing, quality and PLM teams is essential to mitigate structural risk, support regulatory and customer approval processes, and prevent late-stage redesigns or field driven corrective actions.

• Structural Engineering Ownership & Analysis Own structural design and analysis for data center centric power and cooling systems, including frames, enclosures, skids and mounting structures. Proficient in structural analysis software such as RISA 3D, SAP
  2000, RAM Structural, Idea Statica, Enercalc, Hilti Profis, ETABS or similar. Perform and review structural calculations for static, dynamic, seismic, transport, wind, snow, installation, and live load cases. Ensure structural designs meet applicable codes, standards and jurisdictional requirements for global deployment. Required familiarity with ASCE 7, AISC 360 and ACI 318. Exercise professional engineering judgment as the responsible structural authority.
• Seismic Qualification & Load Management Lead seismic qualification efforts, including floor response spectra evaluation and anchorage requirements. Evaluate floor loading limits, elevated installations and site‑specific structural constraints. Ensure designs safely support heavy components such as large bus structures and transformers under all operating and fault conditions. Assess interactions with forklifts, cranes, and rigging operations during manufacturing, transport, and installation.
• Structural CAD & Design Intent Ensure structural intent is accurately reflected in CAD models, drawings, and released documentation. Review and guide structural CAD layouts, weldments, fastener strategies and anchoring details. Partner with mechanical and CAD teams to maintain alignment between analytical assumptions and physical design implementation. Verify manufacturing drawings clearly communicate load paths, interfaces and installation requirements.
• Regulatory & Customer Approval Support Act as the technical authority for regulatory, AHJ and customer structural signoff requirements. Prepare, review, and certify structural documentation required for compliance and customer acceptance. Respond to structural inquiries, findings and deviations from customers, inspectors and third‑party reviewers.
• Cross Functional Risk Mitigation Collaborate with manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams to identify and mitigate structural risks…