
Principal Structural Engineer – Data Center Infrastructure
Jabil
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $132,400 - $238,400 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Evaluate structural solutions through the lens of technical risk, cost efficiency, and schedule - ensuring designs are robust, buildable, and aligned to delivery timelines
- Lead gravity, wind, seismic, and vibration analysis for modules, frames, racks, and support structures per IBC, ASCE 7, AISC, ACI, and applicable local codes
- Analyze and provide structural recommendations for MDCs, equipment skids, enclosures, and factory-built assemblies
- Validate structural solutions for HAC systems across overhead, rack-integrated, and floor-supported configurations
- Develop seismic bracing and restraint strategies for MEP systems, cable trays, pipe racks, and modular assemblies
- Engineer foundations, steel frames, and anchorage solutions for chillers, generators, UPS systems, pumps, heat exchangers, and fluid distribution equipment
- Define structural strategies for thermal loads, vibration-sensitive equipment, and deflection-managed assemblies
- Develop and maintain DFMEA documentation to identify structural risks and drive mitigation across product families
- Optimize recurring product families for weight, manufacturability, cost, and platform scalability
- Support structural design and coordination for manufacturing and production facilities, including floor loading, equipment pads, overhead crane rails, mezzanines, dock infrastructure, and material handling systems
- Evaluate structural implications of factory layout changes, new production equipment installations, and capacity expansions
- Ensure production floor structural systems are compatible with the weight, dynamic loading, and footprint of the data center products being manufactured
- Collaborate with facility planning and operations teams to define structural requirements for new or modified production spaces
- Support factory layout and integration efforts, including load paths, transportation loads, and installation constraints
- Collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure structural designs meet DFMA requirements; develop standard design templates and modularization strategies to enable repeatability across programs
- Define structural requirements for transportation, lifting, and placing equipment and skids; validate shipping and logistics requirements including OTR dimensional and load limitations
- Ensure structural designs align with factory automation, material-handling capabilities, and assembly workflows
- Collaborate with the BIM/Revit team to ensure structural models are integrated, clash-free, and current within the master coordination model
- Participate in multi-discipline model coordination reviews, resolving structural clearances, anchorage zones, and maintenance envelopes across MEP disciplines
- Review and contribute to coordination drawings, ensuring structural elements are accurately represented and conflict-free
- Maintain structural model quality and LOD standards in adherence with the project BIM Execution Plan (BEP)
- Collaborate with fabrication shops and factory teams to ensure structural designs are buildable, manufacturable, and installation-ready
- Review shop drawings, fabrication details, welds, connections, and material specifications for MDCs, HAC systems, and equipment support structures
- Verify lifting, rigging, transportation, and shipping load cases, including temporary bracing for modules and skids
- Support factory builds, FATs, and field installations; resolve RFIs, NCRs, and production deviations, feeding lessons learned back into design standards
- Produce and review calculations, drawings, specifications, and stamped engineering packages; manage coordination with third-party engineering partners and AHJ approvals where required
- Ensure compliance with applicable codes, seismic standards, customer requirements, and product certification pathways (UL, OSHPD/OSP, etc.) where applicable
- Contribute to internal design standards, platform templates, best practices, and lessons-learned documentation
- Mentor junior engineers, lead design reviews, and serve as a technical escalation point for complex structural issues across the team
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Structural Engineering or Civil Engineering (structural emphasis) required
- 8+ years of progressive structural engineering experience, including leadership of complex structural systems in high-availability industrial or mission-critical facilities
- Professional Engineer (PE) license required
- Proven experience producing stamped engineering packages, reviewing vendor calculations, and managing AHJ coordination
- Experience with modular construction, prefabricated data center infrastructure, or factory-built assemblies strongly preferred
- Familiarity with hyperscale or colocation data center programs and platform-based delivery models is a significant plus
- Proficiency with structural analysis software — SAP2000, ETABS, STAAD, RISA, RAM, or similar
- Working knowledge of IBC, ASCE 7, AISC, ACI, and applicable seismic and non-structural anchorage standards
- Ability to produce and interpret stamped engineering calculations, shop drawings, and fabrication details across steel, concrete, and connection design
- Familiarity with fatigue, vibration, and dynamic loading analysis in environments with rotating or sensitive equipment
- Experience with CAD, PDM, and PLM tools — SolidWorks, Revit, Windchill, Teamcenter, or equivalent
- Familiarity with BIM coordination workflows, clash detection tools (e.g., Navisworks), and LOD standards is a plus
- Practical understanding of data center infrastructure — MDCs, HAC systems, chillers, generators, UPS, PDUs, SFN/cooling piping — and the structural loading, clearance, and anchorage demands they impose
- Familiarity with ASHRAE, SMACNA, and seismic bracing standards as they apply to MEP systems in mission-critical environments
- Understanding of modular and prefabricated construction approaches, factory build sequences, and OTR shipping constraints for large equipment and skids
- Awareness of international codes and standards for global deployment programs is a plus
- Ability to present and defend technical positions clearly to engineering, manufacturing, and customer stakeholders — written and verbal
- Comfortable leading design reviews, driving cross-discipline conflict resolution, and making sound engineering decisions under schedule pressure
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team-wide standards and knowledge-sharing
- Ability to travel both domestically and internationally up to 30%
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
- paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment
- 4 weeks of paid parental leave
- 11 company-paid holidays (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays)
- 401(k) retirement plan
- employee stock purchase plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
structural engineeringseismic analysisvibration analysisgravity analysisDFMEA documentationmodular constructionfatigue analysisdynamic loading analysisstamped engineering calculationsstructural design
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationmentoringproblem-solvingtechnical escalationconflict resolutionpresentation skillsdecision-makingtime management
Certifications
Professional Engineer (PE) licenseBachelor's degree in Structural EngineeringBachelor's degree in Civil Engineering