Data Center Design Engineer

Position Title: Design Engineer
Location: Seattle WA or Phoenix AZ

Your role
Join the worlds leading data center experts and design solutions for some of the most innovative customers on the planet. As a Data Center Design Engineer you will create detailed engineering packages addressing space power cooling and connectivity requirements during the pre-sales and post sales process. You will act as a subject matter expert for assigned campuses or buildings ensuring technical accuracy consistency and seamless transitions from sales to implementation.
This role combines customer-facing engagement technical design expertise and collaboration with Solutions Engineers Portfolio Management Operations and Design & Construction teams to deliver optimized solutions that align with customer needs and company standards.

What youll do
Partner with Solutions Engineers to understand customer business/technical needs.
Design and deliver optimized whitespace power cooling and connectivity solutions.
Create engineering packages: drawings floor plans technical documentation and proposals.
Conduct site surveys due diligence and indicative CFD analyses.
Supporting RFPs and technical due diligence in collaboration with Solutions Engineers.
Collaborate with sales portfolio and operations teams during all stages of the sales cycle.
Provide technical expertise during customer tours and solution presentations.
Act as the local Subject Matter Expert for assigned campuses: whitespace design inventory connectivity pathways and capacity management.
Perform Service Order reviews cost validations requirements.
Support post-sales teams with accurate handover packages Technical Service Reviews and order materials.
Support forecasting pipeline and market analysis.

What youll need
Education & Experience:
oBachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience in lieu of degree).
o35 years in a B2B sales engineering/design environment (data centers telecom networking high-tech facilities).

Technical Expertise:
oProven design skills in high-density data centers (power cooling space optimization airflow).
oFamiliarity with AI and High Density HPC requirements (GPUs specialized processors).
oFamiliarity in liquid cooling technologies and relevant best practices.
oStrong understanding of Data Center power distribution and UPS system standards.
oStrong understanding of network architecture fiber optics and connectivity solutions.
oKnowledge of data center security (physical & cyber).
oProficiency with CAD/Visio/AutoCAD CFD modeling preferred.
oProficiency in MS Office Suite (Word Excel PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat.

Soft Skills:
oExcellent internal and customer-facing communication and presentation skills.
oAbility to translate complex technical requirements into clear actionable solutions.
oStrong project management critical thinking and documentation skills.
oAdaptability to fast-paced ever changing global environments.
oCommitment to customer service and cross-functional collaboration.

A bit about us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL the companys global data center platform provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.

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A bit about our team
Our Technology & Innovation team strives to innovate alongside our customers and empower their businesses to thrive. We work closely with our customers to develop insights-based data-driven technical solutions and differentiated value propositions on PlatformDIGITAL across the world. Operating in almost 50 cities globally means we understand how rapidly the world is evolving so weve built a best-in-class development model to qualify package; and enable cloud to core to edge hybrid IT solutions. Our deep technical heritage combined with our global footprint means the Technology Innovation team can create and deploy services and solutions that are at the heart of the digital economy.

What we can offer you
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and youll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team youll get to work with people from different business areas challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. Well also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Apply today take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

Health and Safety
Safety isnt just a priority here at Digital; its critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives protecting assets and securing data arent just ideals - theyre essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package excellent benefits and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the companys overall goals and values.

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role level and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills experience and relevant education and/or training. Moreover an employees total compensation package varies by role and may include salary cash bonus or commissions and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation range: $120000 - $130000 annually. This compensation range represents the Companys good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary/hourly rate for this position at the time of this posting.

Benefits: For this role Benefits include medical dental vision life and AD&D insurance 401k match disability benefits wellness and education benefits employee stock purchase plan paid time off holidays and more.