Staff Engineer, Data Center

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Join us to transform the way the world works.

This role will be based in Manassas, VA.

At Linked In, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a Linked In office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

Responsibilities:

• Own electrical design review and validation of data center power systems, from utility and medium-voltage distribution through backup power and rack-level distribution.
• Review mechanical, cooling, and liquid cooling system designs and assess their interdependencies with electrical power systems under normal and failure conditions.
• Perform and review electrical studies, including load flow, short-circuit, protective coordination, and arc-flash, and develop resiliency and redundancy models to validate designs against Linked In’s Tier-level and N+X criteria.
• Drive updates to the electrical sections of Linked In’s global Basis of Design (BOD), including owner’s requirements, design drawings, technical specifications, bills of materials, and performance benchmarks, to ensure consistency across regions and providers.
• Evaluate and qualify new electrical and mechanical equipment and components, including vendor qualification and product testing, to support standardization, performance, and long-term reliability across the fleet.
• Lead technical evaluation of new sites, expansions, and data hall fit-outs, including review of electrical one-line diagrams, mechanical system designs, and infrastructure layouts.
• Lead technical due diligence and support infrastructure negotiations for colocation leases, amendments, and expansions, translating capacity requirements into enforceable technical provisions covering capacity delivery, system performance, demarcation of responsibilities, commissioning, maintenance, reporting, and SLAs.
• Partner with data center providers to define, measure, and enforce lease SLAs, assess power and cooling capacity, and ensure compliance with Linked In’s redundancy, resiliency, and availability standards.
• Oversee the design and construction of new data centers, expansions, and retrofits, ensuring electrical and mechanical systems meet design intent, testing protocols, commissioning standards, and project timelines.
• Define commissioning and Integrated Systems Testing (IST) requirements for new data center spaces, retrofits, and upgrades, and validate results against design intent and operational requirements.
• Contribute to Linked In’s liquid-cooling deployment strategy by evaluating direct-to-chip technologies, power and cooling interdependencies, and operational impacts, and support the metrics and tools needed for monitoring and maintenance.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Process, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing, constructing, commissioning, operating, or maintaining mission-critical infrastructure.
• 5+ years of direct experience with data center design, construction, field engineering, commissioning, or major…