Solutions Mechanical Engineer – Data Center Cooling

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Mechanical Engineer designing and validating liquid cooling infrastructures for data centers. Collaborating with sales and FAE teams to ensure optimal deployment and support.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRaleigh • Minnesota, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $105,000 - $195,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with sales and FAEs to translate customer requirements - such as rack heat loads, facility water parameters, redundancy targets, and layout constraints - into practical liquid cooling architectures and product recommendations.
Perform thermofluid and hydraulic analyses, including flow distribution, pressure drop, pump sizing, and heat rejection performance across architectures involving coolant distribution units (CDUs), secondary fluid networks, rack and row manifolds, and hydronic loops.
Support site surveys, design reviews, and deployment planning to ensure clear design intent, constructability, and reduced execution risk.
Assist with commissioning and field support by validating operating conditions, confirming system performance, and helping resolve deviations from design expectations.
Develop and maintain sizing tools, performance calculators, templates, and supporting technical materials that enable consistent system configuration and accurate quoting.
Capture insights from customer engagements and field deployments and feed them back into Product Management to influence roadmap priorities, reliability, serviceability, and future product development.
Serve as a technical liaison across Product Management, Engineering, Services, Sales, and FAE teams to ensure solutions are scalable, deployable, and aligned with customer outcomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal/Fluids Engineering, Process Engineering, or a related field
5+ years of engineering experience, which will include experience supporting data center cooling, commissioning, and/or or thermal/fluid systems
Hands‑on experience with high‑density liquid cooling technologies such as direct‑to‑chip cooling, immersion cooling, CDUs, rear‑door heat exchangers, and manifold‑based distribution systems
A strong foundation in thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and hydraulic systems, including pressure drop analysis and flow balancing
Experience using thermal and flow analysis tools (including CFD or hydronic modeling) to inform real‑world design decisions
Solid understanding of P&IDs, hydronic loop design, pressure testing, and fluid quality management practices
The ability to communicate effectively with customers and multi-functional project team members in pre‑sales and deployment settings
Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% to support customer engagements, site surveys, and deployment activities

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts
Short-term and long-term disability benefits
Critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance
A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match
Tuition reimbursement
Caregiver, personal and parental leave
Back-up care services
Paid time off including volunteer time
A well-being program
Legal & identity theft protection

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Hard Skills & Tools

thermodynamicsheat transferfluid dynamicshydraulic systemspressure drop analysisflow balancinghigh-density liquid coolingdirect-to-chip coolingimmersion coolingCDUs

Soft Skills

effective communicationcollaborationcustomer engagementproblem-solvingproject management