Staff Engineer, Data Center

This role will be based in Manassas VA.

At LinkedIn our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture connection clarity and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days as determined by the business needs of the team.

Responsibilities:

• Own electrical design review and validation of data center power systems from utility and medium-voltage distribution through backup power and rack-level distribution. 
• Review mechanical cooling and liquid cooling system designs and assess their interdependencies with electrical power systems under normal and failure conditions. 
• Perform and review electrical studies including load flow short-circuit protective coordination and arc-flash and develop resiliency and redundancy models to validate designs against LinkedIns Tier-level and NX criteria. 
• Drive updates to the electrical sections of LinkedIns global Basis of Design (BOD) including owners requirements design drawings technical specifications bills of materials and performance benchmarks to ensure consistency across regions and providers. 
• Evaluate and qualify new electrical and mechanical equipment and components including vendor qualification and product testing to support standardization performance and long-term reliability across the fleet.
• Lead technical evaluation of new sites expansions and data hall fit-outs including review of electrical one-line diagrams mechanical system designs and infrastructure layouts. 
• Lead technical due diligence and support infrastructure negotiations for colocation leases amendments and expansions translating capacity requirements into enforceable technical provisions covering capacity delivery system performance demarcation of responsibilities commissioning maintenance reporting and SLAs. 
• Partner with data center providers to define measure and enforce lease SLAs assess power and cooling capacity and ensure compliance with LinkedIns redundancy resiliency and availability standards.
• Oversee the design and construction of new data centers expansions and retrofits ensuring electrical and mechanical systems meet design intent testing protocols commissioning standards and project timelines. 
• Define commissioning and Integrated Systems Testing (IST) requirements for new data center spaces retrofits and upgrades and validate results against design intent and operational requirements. 
• Contribute to LinkedIns liquid-cooling deployment strategy by evaluating direct-to-chip technologies power and cooling interdependencies and operational impacts and support the metrics and tools needed for monitoring and maintenance.

Qualifications :

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Mechanical Industrial Process or a related engineering discipline or equivalent practical experience. 
• 5 years of experience designing constructing commissioning operating or maintaining mission-critical infrastructure. 
• 5 years of direct experience with data center design construction field engineering commissioning or major infrastructure retrofit programs. 
• Experience in data center electrical power systems from medium-voltage distribution through backup power and rack-level distribution. 
• Familiarity with data center mechanical and cooling systems including liquid cooling infrastructure. 
• Experience evaluating electrical and mechanical infrastructure interdependencies system redundancy and failure scenarios in mission-critical environments. 
• Experience supporting maintenance reliability and operational-readiness programs for critical infrastructure. 
• Experience working with colocation providers engineering consultants contractors commissioning agents equipment manufacturers and internal operations teams. 
• Ability to develop clear and actionable technical documentation for engineering operations and capacity planning teams. 
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent mission-critical initiatives and communicate technical risks tradeoffs and recommendations to engineering and leadership audiences. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field. 
• 10 years of direct data center design construction and commissioning experience with a hyperscaler colocation provider or contractor. 
• Professional certifications such as Professional Engineer (PE) Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Project Management Professional (PMP). 
• Experience performing or reviewing electrical studies including load flow short-circuit protective coordination and arc-flash. 
• Working knowledge of electrical safety standards and codes including NFPA 70E and NEC etc. 
• Experience leading technical due diligence site evaluations colocation infrastructure negotiations or development and enforcement of technical lease requirements and SLAs. 
• Experience with high-density data center infrastructure and liquid-cooling technologies including controls monitoring and operational-readiness requirements. 
• Experience with mechanical analyses such as CFD modeling hydraulic analysis and cooling capacity and redundancy assessments.

Suggested Skills:

• Electrical power distribution design protection and system analysis 
• Electrical safety (NFPA 70E/NEC) and arc-flash program management 
• Data center site evaluation design and construction administration 
• Colocation technical due diligence lease requirements and SLA management 
• Basis of Design (BOD) development and standardization 
• Mechanical thermal and liquid cooling systems engineering including CFD analysis

Additional Information :

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $136000 to $221000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus stock benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information visit Opportunity Statement 

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• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However non-disability related requests such as following up on an application will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn or (c) consistent with LinkedIns legal duty to furnish information.

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