Principal, System Architect (Pre-sales) - Mechanical

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The Role:

We are in search for an experienced Principal System Architect (Pre-Sales) - Mechanical to lead the design of innovative cooling and thermal solutions for strategic data center customers.

As the thermal engineering expert, you'll own end-to-end cooling architectures, from chiller plants to advanced liquid cooling technologies, helping customers solve complex infrastructure challenges.

Partnering closely with Key Account Managers and Solution Architects, you'll act as a trusted advisor, influencing technical decisions, strengthening customer confidence, and driving successful business outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with customer engagement while shaping the future of data center and AI infrastructure.

What will you do?

Thermal System Design (Core Engineering)

Design complete cooling and Thermal management systems for datacenter solutions:


* Primary chiller plant: water-cooled and air-cooled configurations, sizing, redundancy strategies (N, N+1, 2N).


* Heat rejection systems: cooling towers, dry coolers, adiabatic cooling, seasonal performance modelling.


* Chilled water distribution: primary/secondary loop design, variable flow optimization, delta-T management.


* Precision air systems: CRAH/CRAC sizing, hot aisle/cold aisle containment, airflow design.


* In-row cooling and rear-door heat exchangers (RDHx) for high-density environments.


* Liquid cooling systems: CDU sizing for 30-200+ kW clusters, warm water interfaces (up to 45°C), OCP OLC-compliant manifolds.


* AI DC thermal design: GPU cluster-scale cooling, NVL72/GB200 CDU configuration, hybrid air+liquid architectures.


* Energy modeling: PUE contribution from cooling, WUE analysis, free-cooling availability, economization strategies.

Solution Engineering Deliverables

Produce all cooling engineering outputs for bids:


* Cooling load calculations and psychrometric analysis.


* Equipment sizing schedules and specifications.


* P&ID diagrams (concept and scheme level).


* Piping layout sketches and CDU configuration schedules.


* Bill of Materials (BOM) for cooling scope.


* OG vendor specifications (third-party product selection).


* Design handover packages wh...