Principal Operations Engineer, Mechanical (AI Data Centers)

Location: Remote, Delaware, United States; field-based role with significant travel across data-center sites.

Salary: $225,000–$270,000 per year

Company

Provides information technology and workforce solutions through a workforce of more than 5,000 professionals across the United States and Canada.

What you will do

• Serve as the senior technical authority for operational mechanical and cooling infrastructure across a hyperscale AI data-center fleet.
• Lead site assessments, operational audits, and technical-readiness activities before site activation.
• Review mechanical designs and specifications from an operational perspective and provide improvement feedback.
• Oversee mechanical operational readiness and commissioning-to-operations handoffs for new sites.
• Author and approve high-risk mechanical MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs.
• Lead root-cause analysis for significant cooling events through closure.

Requirements

• Extensive experience operating critical mechanical systems and understanding thermal precision for AI workloads.
• Strong command of chilled-water systems, chillers, cooling towers, CRAH/CRAC units, pumps, CDUs, and direct liquid cooling in live environments.
• Proven experience authoring and executing high-risk mechanical MOPs.
• Experience leading root-cause analysis for significant cooling events.
• Ability to assess operational readiness, audit site posture, raise technical standards, and build team readiness before activation.
• Preferred experience with hyperscale or large colocation environments operating at hundreds of megawatts.

Nice to have

• Experience with direct liquid cooling, CDU operations, ASHRAE TC 9.9, chilled-water plant optimization, and Uptime Institute standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct-hire, full-time position.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) contributions, PTO, and sick leave.
• Benefits are provided according to applicable state or local requirements where the employee resides or works.
• AI tools may assist with application and interview evaluation, while final decisions are made by qualified hiring personnel.