Director, CSA Engineering (AI Infrastructure)

Location: Ireland - Remote

Salary: $300K–$400K, plus equity and bonus

Company

hirify.global is a founder-led, vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform building dependable compute infrastructure from capital and clusters to software.

What you will do

• Own civil, structural and architectural engineering input across AI factories in EMEA and AMER from concept through construction and handover.
• Develop, deploy and maintain CSA design standards, specifications, reference designs and basis of design documents across projects and regions.
• Own building and site architecture, structural systems, loading strategies, plant yards, envelopes and data hall layouts for high-density AI and HPC compute.
• Provide geotechnical due diligence and CSA support through site selection, permitting, detailed design, construction and handover.
• Lead design reviews, technical assurance, standards departures, safety and fire and life safety compliance, reliability, maintainability and embodied-carbon considerations.
• Direct external design partners, report risks and decisions, mentor engineers and build the CSA engineering team.

Requirements

• Degree in civil or structural engineering or architecture; chartered or professional status such as CEng, PE, SE or registered architect is preferred.
• Significant data centre or mission-critical CSA engineering experience, including senior technical leadership on large-scale programmes.
• Deep technical expertise in at least one of civil, structural or architectural design, with strong working knowledge across all three.
• Experience developing and deploying CSA design standards, reference designs or basis of design documents for a hyperscale, colocation or large-scale data centre developer.
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering buildings for high-density and liquid-cooled AI and HPC workloads, including understanding how rack weight, services density and plant space affect facility design.
• Familiarity with European and North American data centre CSA codes and standards, including Eurocodes, the International Building Code, ASCE 7, and fire and life safety requirements.
• Strong commercial judgement when balancing capex, schedule, reliability and operability.
• Confident communication of complex technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives.
• Collaborative approach that builds trust across partner teams while maintaining engineering standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work from Ireland within a global organization.
• Competitive salary based on the work performed, independent of previous salary.
• Equity in hirify.global, retirement or pension contributions, and comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits.
• Generous annual vacation allowance and support for work-life balance and career growth.
• Employment offers are conditional on pre-employment screening, including right-to-work confirmation, employment-history verification and a criminal-record check where permitted by law.

Hiring process

• Pre-employment screening is conducted after an offer by Zinc, including right-to-work, employment-history and permitted criminal-record checks.
• Accommodation or interview adjustments can be requested during the recruitment process.