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.