The AI Infrastructure Engineer – Emerging Technologies will support the Office of the VP of Technology Engineering & Innovation in evaluating, designing, and developing next-generation AI-ready data center infrastructure strategies.
This role serves as a bridge between emerging AI technologies and practical implementation across data center development, engineering, construction, operations, and energy infrastructure planning.
The position will focus on assessing how rapidly evolving AI compute architectures, high-density rack deployments, advanced cooling systems, and emerging power technologies will impact future data center design standards, development strategies, construction methodologies, and operational models.
The ideal candidate combines expertise in AI infrastructure, power systems, cooling technologies, and emerging compute platforms with the ability to translate industry trends into actionable engineering and infrastructure strategies for future AI-enabled data center environments.
This role is ideal for someone who is highly analytical, technically curious, and capable of bridging emerging AI compute trends with real-world infrastructure strategy and execution. This individual should be comfortable operating across engineering, operations, construction, energy strategy, and innovation functions while helping shape the future direction of AI-enabled data center development.
This role will help evaluate and guide the following areas:
- Future AI rack density and power consumption trends
- Impacts of next-generation GPU and AI chip architectures
- Optical networking and switching implications on infrastructure design
- AI workload impacts on utility infrastructure and power quality
- Evolution of liquid cooling and high-density thermal management
- Grid-parallel and microgrid strategies for AI campuses
- Future AI-ready development and construction standards
- Long-term AI infrastructure innovation roadmaps
- Vendor technology evaluation and infrastructure modernization strategies
What you do daily:
- Support the VP of Technology Engineering & Innovation in evaluating emerging AI infrastructure technologies and future-ready data center strategies.
- Analyze AI workload characteristics including:
- Training vs. inference workloads
- GPU utilization patterns
- Dynamic workload fluctuations
- Rack-level power variability
- Networking and latency requirements
- Assess implications of AI workload behavior on infrastructure resiliency, scalability, efficiency, and operational design.
- Develop technical recommendations and infrastructure strategies supporting future AI deployments.
- Analyze current and future AI compute platforms including NVIDIA GPU architectures, ARM-based platforms, custom AI accelerators and ASICs, optical networking and switching technologies, and emerging hyperscaler-designed AI chips.
- Evaluate implications of evolving chip architectures on rack density, power consumption, cooling requirements, electrical distribution, mechanical infrastructure, space planning, and future development standards.
- Model current and future AI rack power density trends including existing high-density deployments (50–120 kW), near-term AI deployments (150–300+ kW), and future ultra-dense AI cluster scenarios.
- Assess long-term impacts of emerging chip architectures on energy efficiency and future data center design and development standards.
- Support conceptual and detailed design efforts for AI-ready data center infrastructure.
- Assist in developing long-term infrastructure roadmaps for high-density AI deployments, liquid cooling adoption, modular infrastructure strategies, utility coordination, grid-parallel and microgrid solutions, and future AI campus development.
- Evaluate implications of AI infrastructure evolution on greenfield developments, existing facility retrofits, construction methodologies, scalability, and future campus master planning.
- Collaborate with engineering, development, and construction teams to develop scalable AI-ready infrastructure standards and deployment models.
- Collaborate closely with the Energy Strategy Team to evaluate utility constraints, interconnection requirements, grid limitations, dynamic load fluctuation impacts, power quality and resiliency considerations, and onsite generation and distributed energy solutions.
- Support analysis of grid-parallel and islanded microgrid architectures, fuel cells, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), bridge power solutions, natural gas generation, and renewable integration opportunities.
- Evaluate implications of AI workloads on substation development, transmission planning, utility coordination, and energy efficiency and PUE optimization.
- Assess how future AI compute growth will influence utility planning and power infrastructure strategies.
- Analyze current and emerging thermal management solutions including air cooling, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, immersion cooling, rear-door heat exchangers, and hybrid cooling architectures.
- Assess implications of ultra-high-density AI deployments on mechanical system design, water usage, cooling scalability, heat rejection strategies, thermal resiliency, and future cooling infrastructure standards.
- Evaluate cooling technologies and infrastructure requirements as AI rack densities continue to increase.
- Interface directly with technology vendors, OEMs, utilities, and strategic partners across power generation, UPS systems, electrical infrastructure, cooling technologies, liquid cooling platforms, AI compute infrastructure, and networking and optical interconnect technologies.
- Lead technical assessments of next-generation technologies with respect to reliability, scalability, energy efficiency, sustainability, AI workload performance, construction complexity, and operational resiliency.
- Support proof-of-concept initiatives, pilot deployments, and technology benchmarking efforts.
- Develop executive-level recommendations regarding adoption of emerging AI infrastructure technologies and strategic engineering standards.
- Collaborate with design engineering, construction, operations, energy strategy, procurement, utilities, technology partners, and external engineering firms and consultants.
- Support strategic planning initiatives and executive-level technical presentations.
- Assist in developing future infrastructure standards and innovation roadmaps for AI-enabled data center platforms.
AI Infrastructure Strategy & Analysis
AI Compute & Chip Architecture Evaluation
Data Center Design, Development & Construction
Energy Strategy & Power Infrastructure
Cooling & Thermal Management Technologies
Vendor Engagement & Emerging Technology Assessment
Cross-Functional Collaboration
What makes you a good fit: (Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Center Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following: data center infrastructure, AI/HPC infrastructure, power systems engineering, cooling technologies, or advanced infrastructure engineering.
- Strong understanding of emerging AI compute technologies and infrastructure implications.
- Ability to analyze complex technical systems and translate findings into actionable engineering and infrastructure strategies.
- Master's degree and/or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Energy Systems, or a related technical field.
- Experience with hyperscale or colocation data center environments.
- Knowledge of GPU infrastructure and AI workload behavior.
- Familiarity with utility coordination and energy systems.
- Understanding of high-density cooling technologies.
- Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure development projects.
- PE license or equivalent advanced technical credentials.
Required
Preferred
***Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or transfer sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.***
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Center Engineering, or related technical discipline
- 5+ years of experience in data center infrastructure, AI/HPC infrastructure, power systems engineering, cooling technologies, or advanced infrastructure engineering
- Strong understanding of emerging AI compute technologies and infrastructure implications
- Ability to analyze complex technical systems and translate findings into actionable engineering and infrastructure strategies
- Authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; employer cannot sponsor or transfer employment visas (including CPT/OPT)
- Master's degree and/or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Energy Systems, or related field
- Experience with hyperscale or colocation data center environments
- Knowledge of GPU infrastructure and AI workload behavior
- Familiarity with utility coordination and energy systems
- Understanding of high-density cooling technologies (liquid cooling, immersion, rear-door heat exchangers)
- Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure development projects
- PE license or equivalent advanced technical credentials
What We Do
Cologix is reinventing the edge—building the data centers of tomorrow by integrating hyperscale edge capacity with robust interconnection. Our dedicated, experienced local teams foster industry-leading service, supporting you through every aspect of your digital infrastructure journey. One connection to our ecosystem empowers your digital transformation, connecting you to the solutions and partners you need. For a tour of one of our data centers in Ashburn, Columbus, Dallas, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Minneapolis, Montreal, New Jersey, Silicon Valley, Toronto or Vancouver visit www.cologix.com/contact/schedule-a-data-center-tour/ or email [email protected].
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