Senior Design Manager; Data Center

Position: Senior Design Manager (Data Center)

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Here at Jacobs, we apply our expertise and knowledge as we look into the future with great optimism and focus. We don’t settle until we give our best and know that we’re making a difference.

We are seeking a Senior Design Manager – AI Data Center White Space Design to provide technical leadership for the planning, design, construction, commissioning, and deployment of large-scale, high-density data center environments.

Initially, this position will be based in South Carolina.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the senior subject matter expert and technical authority for AI and high-density data center white space design
• Establish and govern white space Basis of Design, design criteria, reference architectures, and technical standards
• Translate GPU, accelerator, HPC, and next-generation IT platform requirements into facility requirements for power, cooling, connectivity, rack configuration, structural loading, service access, and deployment
• Lead data hall layouts, rack deployment strategies, equipment spacing, compute-block planning, capacity utilization, and future expansion planning
• Provide technical direction for white space electrical distribution, including busway, PDU, RPP, rack-level power, redundancy, monitoring, and high-density power architectures
• Lead development of air-cooled, liquid-cooled, and hybrid cooling solutions, including direct-to-chip cooling, CDUs, rack manifolds, technology cooling water interfaces, leak detection, and thermal optimization
• Guide integration of high-density AI network infrastructure, including network racks, high-speed fiber pathways, cable management, Infini Band, and high-speed Ethernet environments
• Develop and validate capacity models linking facility MW capacity to data hall, compute block, rack, power, cooling, network, and floor-space requirements
• Address rack loading, structural capacity, equipment access, material handling, installation pathways, serviceability, and equipment replacement requirements
• Lead white space constructability, deployment, commissioning, phased energization, turnover, and operational-readiness planning
• Evaluate designs for resiliency, concurrent maintainability, failure isolation, technology refresh, and future increases in rack density
• Lead multidisciplinary coordination across electrical, mechanical, structural, architectural, controls, telecommunications, commissioning, construction, IT, and operations
• Serve as a senior technical interface with clients, technology providers, OEMs, contractors, commissioning teams, and facility operators
• Champion standardized designs, lessons learned, technical governance, modularization, and repeatable deployment strategies across hyperscale programs

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline
• 15+ years of relevant engineering/design experience, with significant experience in mission-critical or data center facilities
• Demonstrated experience leading hyperscale, HPC, high-density, or AI-focused data center white space design
• Direct experience with high-density rack deployment and GPU/HPC compute environments
• Strong working knowledge of
• High-density rack and compute architectures
• Busway, PDU, RPP, and rack-level power distribution
• Direct-to-chip liquid cooling and CDUs
• Air/liquid hybrid cooling and thermal management
• High-density fiber and network infrastructure
• Capacity modeling and utilization
• Rack…