Senior Mechanical Engineer (Data Centers)

Location: Dallas, Texas, United States

Company

hirify.global develops digital asset infrastructure and operates data center infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing workloads.

What you will do

• Provide mechanical engineering support across data center site design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and enduring operations.
• Review cooling plants, chillers, pumps, cooling towers, CRAH/CRAC units, heat exchangers, piping, valves, water treatment systems, and related infrastructure.
• Validate commissioning plans, functional performance tests, integrated systems tests, controls sequences, alarms, set points, trends, and BMS visibility.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for incidents, equipment failures, abnormal operating conditions, capacity constraints, and reliability concerns.
• Lead root cause analyses and develop corrective and preventive actions to reduce repeat failure modes and operational risk.
• Develop maintenance standards, asset criticality frameworks, lifecycle plans, engineering standards, operating procedures, and reliability improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• 8–10 years of progressive mechanical engineering experience, including at least 5 years in data centers, mission-critical facilities, central plants, industrial facilities, or other 24x7 high-availability environments.
• Experience across mechanical design review, construction support, commissioning, turnover, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operations.
• Strong knowledge of cooling plants, air handling systems, pumps, heat rejection equipment, piping, valves, controls, and redundancy configurations.
• Experience with mechanical drawings, equipment submittals, sequence-of-operations documents, commissioning scripts, test reports, O&M manuals, and maintenance documentation.
• Experience with preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, corrective action planning, asset lifecycle management, and operational risk assessment.

Nice to have

• 10+ years of experience in large-scale data center, mission-critical, or multi-site critical infrastructure environments.
• Professional Engineer license or Engineer-in-Training certification.
• Knowledge of Uptime Institute Tier concepts, ASHRAE guidance, OEM maintenance requirements, and data center availability expectations.
• Experience with BMS platforms, predictive maintenance, thermal modeling, CFD, CMMS data quality, or reliability analytics.
• Experience developing SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, RCA templates, training materials, and engineering governance processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible time off with unlimited paid vacation days.
• 14 company-paid holidays and company-paid sick leave.
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and dependents.
• 3% 401(k) company contribution and paid parental leave.
• Virtual coaching and counseling sessions, daily in-office snacks, and employee resource groups.