Data Center Solutions Architect

Role Overview

• Technical Leader and expert in the Data Center Solutions specialty to develop and govern standardized cooling reference architectures for AI-focused data center deployments.
• Define system-level topology across liquid cooling, air cooling, plant design, and heat rejection strategies.
• Architect integrated solutions that align thermal systems, electrical constraints, controls philosophy, and operational resilience.
• Establish design guardrails, scalability boundaries, and redundancy strategies.
• Support proof-of-concept testing, performance benchmarking, interoperability validation, and technical demonstrations within the Data Center CoE Innovation Lab in San Diego.
• Lead cross-functional architecture reviews across engineering, product, service, and commercial teams.
• Drive techno-economic trade studies balancing performance, reliability, footprint, manufacturability, and cost.
• Define control philosophy and system orchestration standards across plant equipment and distribution systems.
• Incorporate field performance feedback and commissioning lessons into architecture evolution to make improvements to products.
• Support customer-facing technical discussions with hyperscale, enterprise, and colocation stakeholders.
• Contribute to long-term product and platform strategy alignment.
• Engage selectively with external stakeholders to position Daikin solutions early in design cycles.
• Strong ability to articulate both system-level architecture and product-level technical detail in executive and customer-facing settings.
• Sales-aware mindset with the ability to influence customer design decisions and guide solution alignment.
• Excellent communication skills, emotional intelligence, and executive presence in customer and partner interactions.
• Highly collaborative and effective in cross-functional environments, aligned with CoE team culture.
• Ability to travel to the San Diego Innovation Lab, customer sites, partner facilities, and internal meetings as required.

Requirements

• BSc Mechanical, electrical, systems, industrial, or automation engineering
• 10+ years’ experience
• Technical expert in at least one major data center domain (mechanical systems, thermal cooling, controls, integration, or systems architecture), with the ability to think across domains at the system level
• Experience in mission-critical infrastructure system design
• Demonstrated expertise in liquid cooling integration and central plant architectures
• Strong understanding of redundancy models and high-availability system design
• Working knowledge of plant control strategies and integrated system operation
• Demonstrated business acumen with experience evaluating architecture decisions through lifecycle cost, capital efficiency, operational impact, and market positioning
• Experience conducting or contributing to structured technical and commercial trade studies.

Benefits

• Multiple medical insurance plan options + dental and vision insurance
• 401K retirement plan with employer contributions matching 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% of the next 2% of employee contributions
• Company provided life insurance + optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance, dependent life coverage, and voluntary accident coverage
• Short-term and long-term disability
• 3 weeks of paid time off for new employees + 11 company-paid holidays
• Vacation accrues on a monthly basis, unless applicable federal, state, and local law requires a faster accrual
• Paid sick time in accordance with the federal, state, and local law
• Paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service