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SUMMARY

The Principal Structural Design Engineer is ahandsonindividual contributor role responsible for structural engineering ownership of CDU and switchgear systems. This role ensures that frames enclosures skids and supporting structures meet all load seismic transport installation and operational requirements across global deployment environments. The position provides authoritative structural analysis design validation and code compliance while ensuring structural intent is accurately captured in CAD models and released documentation.

Therole requires a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) with deep experience in structural systems supporting heavy electrical equipment. Close collaboration with mechanical manufacturing quality and PLM teams is essential to mitigate structural risk support regulatory and customer approval processes and preventlate-stageredesigns or fielddriven corrective actions.

Job Title: Principal Structural Design Engineer

Organization: Data Center Infrastructure Team

Location: Austin TX - or Remote*

*Requires up to 25% domestic and/or international travel (rare)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Structural Engineering Ownership & Analysis

• Own structural design and analysis fordata center centric power and coolingsystems including frames enclosuresskidsand mounting structures.
• Perform and review structural calculations for static dynamic seismictransportandinstallationload cases.
• Ensure structural designs meet applicable codes standards and jurisdictional requirements for global deployment.
• Exercise professional engineering judgment as the responsible structural authority.

Seismic Qualification & Load Management

• Lead seismic qualification efforts including floor response spectra evaluation and anchorage requirements.
• Evaluate floor loading limits elevated installations and site-specific structural constraints.
• Ensure designs safely support heavy components such as large bus structures and transformers under all operating andfaultconditions.
• Assess interactions with forklifts cranes and rigging operations during manufacturingtransportand installation.

Structural CAD & Design Intent

• Ensure structural intent is accurately reflected in CAD models drawings and released documentation.
• Review and guide structural CAD layouts weldments fastener strategiesand anchoring details.
• Partner with mechanical and CAD teams tomaintainalignment between analytical assumptions and physical design implementation.
• Verify manufacturing drawings clearly communicate load paths interfacesand installation requirements.

Regulatory & Customer Approval Support

• Act as the technical authority for regulatory AHJ and customer structuralsignoffrequirements.
• Prepare review and certify structural documentation required for compliance and customer acceptance.
• Respond to structural inquiries findings and deviations from customers inspectors andthirdpartyreviewers.

CrossFunctional Risk Mitigation

• Collaborate with manufacturing quality and supply chain teams toidentifyand mitigate structural risks early.
• Support prototype builds qualification testing and production rampup through structural guidance and issue resolution.
• Proactivelyidentifystructural risks that could lead to late-stage redesigns productiondelaysor field retrofits.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Civil Structural or Mechanical Engineering.
• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license in the United States.
• 10 years of experience in structural engineering for industrial or infrastructureclass equipment.
• Demonstrated experience performing and certifying structural analyses for heavy equipment assemblies.
• Ability to independentlyownstructural decisions and provide stamped deliverablesifrequired.

Preferred Experience

• Structural engineering experience supporting CDUswitchgearor missioncritical power infrastructure.
• Handson experience with seismicqualification anchorage design and elevated or constrained installations.
• Experience designing structures supporting large bus bars heavy transformers or other highmass electrical components.
• Familiarity with manufacturing and installation interactions including crane forklift and rigging requirements.
• Experience supporting customer or regulatory structural acceptance andsignoffprocesses.

Core Competencies

• Seniorlevel structural engineering judgment and accountability
• Strongexpertisein seismicloadand transport analysis
• Clear translation of structural intent into CAD and documentation
• Riskbased thinking with focus on early mitigation
• Effectivecrossfunctionalcollaboration without managerial authority
• High ownership rigor and attention to detail in regulated environments

About the Data Center Infrastructure (DCI) Team:

The DCI team consists of technical subject matter experts who specialize in end-to-end large scale physical infrastructure that powers and enables modern data centers. This includes power distribution systems such as transformers substations generators switchgear switch panels busways ATS units EDPM BMS systems and control panels as well as cooling solutions ranging from traditional evaporative and indirect cooling systems to emerging liquid cooling technologies including chillers heat exchangers CDUs pumps and secondary fluid networks. The team also addresses the mechanical structures that house these systems - hot aisle containment steel enclosures blanking panels cable trays and fiber and networking infrastructure.

The DCI team operates as a cross-industry center of excellence partnering primarily with various cloud providers across the industry. Team members function as deeply technical subject matter experts who engage directly with customers and supply chain partners to assess requirements identify challenges and design infrastructure solutions end-to-end. The ideal contributor brings engineering-level expertise in either power or cooling disciplines a working knowledge of the full infrastructure dependency chain and the ability to translate that expertise into clear recommendations and collaborative problem-solving with both technical and business stakeholders.

The pay range for this role is $132400 - $238400. Job-related non-discriminatory factors used to determine the actual offered rate include qualifications and experience geographic location education external market data and consideration of internal equity. The anticipated close date of this job requisition is: May 31 2026.

As part of the total rewards package this position is eligible for a short-term incentive based on addition Jabil offers benefits to enhance your health wealth and resilient self. These include 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; in 2026 11 company-paid holidays (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays) subject to change yearly; 401(k) retirement plan; and employee stock purchase plan.

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