Daikin Applied Americas

Perfecting The Air We Share.

Data Center Solutions Architect – 1

Solutions EngineerSolutions EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 5,001-10,000Since 1924H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California + 1 moreAll locations: California, Minnesota

Posted

2 days ago

Salary

$90.4K - $183.2K / year

Bachelor DegreeEnglish

Job Description

• Develop and govern standardized cooling reference architectures for AI-focused data center deployments. • Define system-level topology across liquid cooling, air cooling, plant design, and heat rejection strategies. • Architect integrated solutions that align thermal systems, electrical constraints, controls philosophy, and operational resilience. • Establish design guardrails, scalability boundaries, and redundancy strategies. • Support proof-of-concept testing, performance benchmarking, interoperability validation, and technical demonstrations within the Data Center CoE Innovation Lab in San Diego. • Lead cross-functional architecture reviews across engineering, product, service, and commercial teams. • Drive techno-economic trade studies balancing performance, reliability, footprint, manufacturability, and cost. • Define control philosophy and system orchestration standards across plant equipment and distribution systems. • Incorporate field performance feedback and commissioning lessons into architecture evolution.

Job Requirements

  • BSc Mechanical, electrical, systems, industrial, or automation engineering
  • Technical expert in at least one major data center domain (mechanical systems, thermal cooling, controls, integration, or systems architecture), with the ability to think across domains at the system level.
  • Experience in mission-critical infrastructure system design.
  • Demonstrated expertise in liquid cooling integration and central plant architectures.
  • Strong understanding of redundancy models and high-availability system design.
  • Working knowledge of plant control strategies and integrated system operation.
  • Demonstrated business acumen with experience evaluating architecture decisions through lifecycle cost, capital efficiency, operational impact, and market positioning.
  • Experience conducting or contributing to structured technical and commercial trade studies.
  • Strong ability to articulate both system-level architecture and product-level technical detail in executive and customer-facing settings.
  • Sales-aware mindset with the ability to influence customer design decisions and guide solution alignment.
  • Excellent communication skills, emotional intelligence, and executive presence in customer and partner interactions.
  • Highly collaborative and effective in cross-functional environments, aligned with CoE team culture.
  • Ability to travel to the San Diego Innovation Lab, customer sites, partner facilities, and internal meetings as required.

Benefits

  • Multiple medical insurance plan options + dental and vision insurance
  • 401K retirement plan with employer contributions matching 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% on the next 2% of employee contributions
  • Company provided life insurance + optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance, dependent life coverage, and voluntary accident coverage
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • 3 weeks of paid time off for new employees + 11 company-paid holidays
  • Vacation accrues on a monthly basis, unless applicable federal, state, and local law requires a faster accrual
  • Paid sick time in accordance with the federal, state, and local law
  • Paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service

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