# Data Center Design Execution Lead

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: Remote-Friendly, United States
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $320,000-$405,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

We are seeking a Data Center Design Execution Lead to join our Infrastructure team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for owning the bridge between our technical requirements and third-party partners who bring our data centers to life. This is a critical role that requires a unique blend of technical expertise, project management skills, and leadership abilities.

Responsibilities:

- Drive execution of our technical requirements for third-party data center delivery partners, ensuring design intent is consistently translated from BOD through construction documents.

- Define the design execution framework,deliverable requirements, review gates, and quality standards,for each partner engagement.

- Drive accountability for partner deliverable quality across milestones, evaluating deliverables for cross-discipline consistency and alignment to our requirements.

- Partner with external design teams and stakeholders to execute design document development and issuance across all project phases.

Change Management & Technical Continuity:

- Own the design change management process across projects, ensuring technical decisions are documented, resolved, and implemented through construction.

- Review and develop responses to contractor RFIs, maintaining design intent while accommodating field conditions.

- Own technical continuity across design, construction, commissioning, and turnover, driving alignment between internal leads on phase transition standards and acceptance criteria.

- Support project closeout and as-built documentation processes.

Constructability & Risk Management:

- Facilitate constructability review processes between design and construction teams, identifying integration risks and maintaining alignment between design intent and field execution as conditions evolve.

- Identify and mitigate design risks; ensure robust QA/QC practices across the design and construction lifecycle.

- Perform project site reviews and deliver technical reports on design compliance and construction progress.

Cross-Functional Coordination:

- Interface with internal stakeholders,construction execution, supply chain, facilities operations, and security,to align design solutions with technical and business objectives.

- Partner with internal teams to define infrastructure requirements and translate them into actionable design criteria for external partners.

- Identify and implement opportunities for process improvements, design optimization, and schedule/performance/cost tradeoffs.

- Review commissioning scripts and final reports to validate performance and functionality against our standards.

Qualifications:

- 10+ years in data center or mission-critical infrastructure delivery, spanning design and delivery phases.

- Direct experience in owner's engineer or technical oversight roles,not purely design production or purely project management.

- Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and cooling systems in data center environments.

- Experience managing design change processes, RFIs, and construction documentation workflows.

- Track record of coordinating across multiple disciplines and organizations on complex infrastructure projects.

- Deep knowledge of industry standards, building codes, and safety standards applicable to mission-critical facilities.

- Comfortable operating with authority in ambiguous environments where processes need to be built, not just followed.

- BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Architecture, or related field.

Preferred:

- Professional Engineer (PE) or Registered Architect (RA) license.

- Experience stamping construction drawing packages.

- Proficiency with Revit/BIM, Autodesk, or similar design software applications.

- Experience integrating sustainability, energy efficiency, and resiliency goals into data center system designs.

- Direct experience with large-scale AI/HPC infrastructure, including high-density cooling systems and power distribution at 50+ MW scale.

## Skills

### Required
- data center design
- project management
- leadership
- technical expertise
- industry standards
- building codes
- safety standards
- mechanical engineering
- electrical engineering
- architecture
- Revit/BIM
- Autodesk
- design software
- sustainability
- energy efficiency
- resiliency
- large-scale AI/HPC infrastructure

### Nice to have
- professional engineer
- registered architect
- construction drawing packages
- high-density cooling systems
- power distribution