Structural Engineer SME - AI Data Centers

About the role

Your impact
This job opportunity is available at ANY location in the United States. Ideally, selected candidates will be near a JACOBS U.S. based office, but we intend to hire the "best" candidates.

Responsibilities

• Lead structural engineering efforts across a portfolio of data center projects, including new builds and retrofits.
• Drive the technical direction, ensuring structural solutions meet the highest standards of performance and constructability.
• Blend technical authority with relationship-driven leadership, confidently navigating design, construction, and stakeholder challenges while delivering solutions that inspire trust and keep clients at the center.
• Serve as a key technical leader, guiding a portfolio of projects and coordinating closely with the structural engineering teams.
• Mentor structural leads and support projects by meeting with clients and upper management as required.
• Shape project execution, influence design strategy, and strengthen delivery excellence.
• Expand technical authority, mentor emerging talent, and grow leadership presence as you help define the next generation of high-performance data center infrastructure.
• Guide the delivery of our Design-Build delivery methodology.
• Provide quality reviews of complex projects.
• Lead complex structural analyses and guide the selection of appropriate methodologies to ensure robust, code compliant, and constructible design solutions.
• Develop and validate advanced structural computer models, establish modeling standards, and mentor team members in best practice simulation techniques.
• Oversee critical calculations for member design and foundations, direct material takeoffs and estimate inputs, and provide technical governance for schedules, design documentation, and interdisciplinary coordination.

Requirements

• Ability to quickly identify complex challenges, solve problems, communicate solutions, and direct junior and senior staff on best practices.
• Experience with almost every building material and type, and ability to speak to the executive level about any subject without advance notice.
• Bachelor of Science in Civil or Structural Engineering with 15+ or more years of professional experience in structural engineering.
• Registered Professional Engineer with the ability to become registered in additional states.
• Knowledge of CAD software, such as AutoCad, Revit, MicroStation and S3D.
• Proficiency with structural analysis software such as RISA, RamSS or STAAD.
• Knowledge and application of ACI, AISC, ASCE 7, AIST Technical Report 13, and other industry relevant design code and standards.
• Knowledge and application of Building Codes.
• Proficiency with MS Office suite software including MS Teams for remote coordination.
• Ability for travel to various client’s sites (approx. 10% to 40% travel).
• Proficiency reviewing and commenting on drawings in Bluebeam.

Qualifications

• Master of Science in Engineering.
• Registered SE License.
• Experience with hyperscale facility design with key global clients.
• Ability to lead teams to deliver commitments on schedule and on budget while meeting quality and client expectations.

Skills

• Ability to quickly identify complex challenges, solve problems, communicate solutions, and direct junior and senior staff on best practices.
• Experience with almost every building material and type, and ability to speak to the executive level about any subject without advance notice.
• Bachelor of Science in Civil or Structural Engineering with 15+ or more years of professional experience in structural engineering.
• Registered Professional Engineer with the ability to become registered in additional states.
• Knowledge of CAD software, such as AutoCad, Revit, MicroStation and S3D.
• Proficiency with structural analysis software such as RISA, RamSS or STAAD.
• Knowledge and application of ACI, AISC, ASCE 7, AIST Technical Report 13, and other industry relevant design code and standards.
• Knowledge and application of Building Codes.
• Proficiency with MS Office suite software including MS Teams for remote coordination.
• Ability for travel to various client’s sites (approx. 10% to 40% travel).
• Proficiency reviewing and commenting on drawings in Bluebeam.
• Experience with hyperscale facility design with key global clients.
• Ability to lead teams to deliver commitments on schedule and on budget while meeting quality and client expectations.

Benefits

• Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future.
• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• A 401(k) plan.
• The ability to purchase company stock at a discount.
• Deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan.
• Unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, and caregiver leave.
• Additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $169,500.00 to $233,000.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Schedule

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future.