# Staff Mechanical Engineer

**Company**: Graphcore
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

As Staff Mechanical Engineer at Graphcore, you will provide technical leadership for the mechanical infrastructure supporting advanced machine learning and high-capacity computing environments. You will shape design standards, review critical systems, and coordinate with various stakeholders.

## Responsibilities

- Own and maintain mechanical design standards, specifications, and owner requirements for data center projects.

- Review mechanical system builds, computations, blueprints, technical requirements, equipment choices, and control sequences for technical quality and operational fit.

- Translate AI and high-performance computing rack requirements into scalable cooling, airflow, hydronic, piping, and heat-rejection solutions.

- Provide technical direction to external consultants, developers, equipment suppliers, and engineering partners.

- Evaluate design options for reliability, maintainability, energy and water performance, capacity, and future expansion.

- Coordinate mechanical interfaces with electrical systems, building controls, fire protection, IT infrastructure, and site operations.

- Lead design reviews, resolve technical issues, and document decisions, risks, and required follow-up actions.

- Support site inspections, equipment submittal reviews, factory acceptance tests, commissioning, and operational-readiness activities.

- Verify that projects meet approved requirements, applicable codes, safety expectations, and commissioning criteria before handover.

- Guide engineers, share technical knowledge, and assess emerging mechanical technologies for future data center deployments.

## Requirements

- A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in mechanical engineering or a related discipline.

- Experience crafting or reviewing mechanical systems for data centers, critically important facilities, or comparable infrastructure.

- Knowledge of HVAC systems and equipment, including chillers, pumps, air-handling equipment, ductwork, piping, hydronic systems, and sequences of operation.

- Experience reviewing design calculations, drawings, specifications, equipment submittals, and control strategies.

- Experience coordinating mechanical requirements with IT, infrastructure, facilities, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

- Experience supporting commissioning, inspections, acceptance testing, issue resolution, and operational handover.

- The ability to provide clear technical direction and communicate decisions through concise documentation and collaborative reviews.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with hyperscale data centers, colocation facilities, or Tier III or Tier IV environments.

- A Professional Engineer license or comparable international credential.

- Experience with high-density AI or high-performance computing infrastructure.

- Knowledge of direct liquid cooling, high-capacity chilled-water systems, building automation, or advanced heat-rejection technologies.

## Benefits

- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with options that may extend to eligible dependents.

- Mental health, wellness, and employee assistance resources.

- Retirement savings benefits and company contributions where applicable.

- Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and parental or family leave in accordance with applicable plans and policies.

- Life insurance and short-term or long-term disability coverage.

- Flexible working hours and hybrid working arrangements where compatible with the role and team requirements.

- Professional development resources, learning programs, office amenities, and team-led activities.

## Skills

### Required
- mechanical engineering
- HVAC systems
- data center infrastructure
- mechanical systems design
- project coordination

### Nice to have
- hyperscale data centers
- Professional Engineer license
- high-density AI infrastructure
- direct liquid cooling
- building automation

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