Staff Mechanical Engineer
Lambda
United States Posted September 30, 2026
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Salary Range
$349,000 - $465,000
Job Description
Join our team as a Staff Mechanical Engineer, where you will own mechanical design standards and reference architectures for large-scale AI data centers. You will develop cooling architectures for various facilities, design central plants and cooling systems, perform calculations, and evaluate designs for capacity and efficiency. You will also coordinate mechanical interfaces with electrical systems and support equipment selection and construction sequencing. This role requires a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and experience designing mechanical systems for data centers or large industrial environments.
- Posséder des normes de conception mécanique et des architectures de référence pour les centres de données AI à grande échelle.
- Développer des architectures de refroidissement pour des installations neuves, des rénovations et des installations exploitées par des partenaires.
- Concevoir des centrales, des systèmes de rejet de chaleur, des systèmes de distribution hydronique, des systèmes de refroidissement à air et des infrastructures de refroidissement liquide.
- Understand applicable mechanical, plumbing, energy, and safety codes and standards
- Can balance cooling performance, efficiency, water consumption, reliability, cost, and delivery schedule
- Understand mechanical redundancy, failure domains, maintainability, and operational requirements
- Can develop and review P&IDs, mechanical layouts, equipment schedules, technical specifications, and engineering calculations
- Hold a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent practical experience
- Have experience designing mechanical systems for data centers, mission-critical facilities, central plants, or large industrial environments
- Understand hydronic systems, heat transfer, chilled-water systems, heat rejection, pumping, filtration, and water treatment
- Communicate clearly across engineering, construction, operations, vendors, and executive stakeholders
- Can evaluate system performance across changing weather conditions and compute loads
- Experience designing hyperscale, colocation, HPC, or AI data centers
- Experience with high-density GPU infrastructure and direct-to-chip liquid cooling
- Experience with CDUs, warm-water cooling, dry coolers, adiabatic systems, or water-side economization
- Familiarity with CFD, Pipe-Flo, AFT Fathom, Revit, or comparable engineering tools
- Experience with water chemistry, glycol systems, filtration, flushing, and cooling-system cleanliness requirements
- Experience supporting factory testing, commissioning, integrated systems testing, or failure investigations
- Professional Engineer licensure or progress toward licensure
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