Data Center Infrastructure - Solutions Mechanical Architect - Plano, TX or Fremont, CA

About the role

This architect ensures that customer needs directly shape the evolution of mechanical and cooling technologies, enabling reliable, efficient, and scalable data-center environments. The role bridges the gap between customer requirements and product innovation, ensuring that cooling infrastructure and hardware designs work together seamlessly.

Responsibilities

• Customer Engagement & Solution Architecture
  • Act as the primary mechanical engineering interface for customers, gathering requirements, understanding deployment constraints, and translating needs into actionable design specifications
  • Lead technical discussions with end users, integrators, and partners to ensure mechanical designs align with operational expectations and long-term scalability
  • Provide expert guidance on liquid-cooling strategies, system tradeoffs, and deployment best practices
• Cross-Functional Collaboration with Product Development
  • Partner closely with hardware, electrical, controls, and product engineering teams to influence the design of new cooling products and enhancements to existing offerings
  • Contribute mechanical expertise to product roadmaps, design reviews, and prototype evaluations
  • Ensure new product designs integrate seamlessly with facility-level cooling infrastructure and meet customer performance requirements
• Mechanical System Design & Integration
  • Architect end-to-end liquid-cooling systems, including dry coolers, evaporative coolers, cooling towers, skids, pumps, heat exchangers, filtration systems, and hydronic distribution
  • Develop detailed mechanical layouts, piping schematics, and system interfaces for both new builds and retrofits
  • Validate system performance through modeling, simulation, and on-site testing
• Infrastructure Planning & Deployment Support
  • Support customers and field teams during installation, commissioning, and troubleshooting of liquid-cooling systems
  • Create and maintain documentation including design standards, sequence-of-operations, commissioning plans, and integration guides
  • Evaluate site conditions, climate considerations, and operational constraints to ensure optimal cooling performance
• Performance, Reliability & Continuous Improvement
  • Analyze system data to optimize efficiency, reliability, and water/power usage
  • Identify opportunities for mechanical improvements in both facility infrastructure and product designs
  • Drive root-cause analysis for mechanical issues and collaborate with development teams to implement corrective actions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
• 7+ years of experience in data-center mechanical design, mission-critical facilities, or advanced cooling systems
• Hands-on experience with dry coolers, evaporative coolers, cooling skids, hydronic systems, and liquid-cooling infrastructure
• Strong understanding of heat transfer, thermodynamics, pump curves, and fluid dynamics
• Experience collaborating with product development or hardware engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage directly with customers and translate technical concepts clearly

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting AI/ML, HPC, or other high-density compute environments
• Familiarity with immersion cooling, direct-to-chip cooling, or rear-door heat exchangers
• Knowledge of water treatment, filtration, and corrosion-control strategies
• Professional Engineering (PE) license or equivalent experience

Pay

USD $150,000.00 - USD $210,000.00 /Yr.

Benefits

Benefit details are available at Delta Electronics Americas.