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Senior Data Center Cooling Infrastructure Engineer
NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA Full-time $184,000 – $345,000
As NVIDIA scales to gigawatt-scale AI Factories, cooling infrastructure becomes a defining element of efficiency, reliability, and sustainability. This role involves leading the end-to-end design, analysis, and optimization of heat-rejection and cooling systems, incorporating waste-heat recovery at facility and campus scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design, analysis, and optimization of heat-rejection and cooling systems
- Develop and validate cooling architectures incorporating waste-heat recovery at campus scale
- Build digital twins and SimReady thermal models using Flownex, ANSYS Fluent, and NVIDIA Omniverse
- Perform thermofluidic and system-level analyses using Python, MATLAB, or EES
- Drive standardization of cooling infrastructure across NVIDIA’s datacenter portfolio
Qualifications
- 12+ years designing and validating cooling systems for data centers or mission-critical facilities
- BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Sciences, or related field
- Proficiency in CFD and hydronic modeling (Ansys Fluent, Flownex, OpenFOAM)
- Proficiency in mechanical/MEP layout tools (AutoCAD, Revit, SolidWorks)
- Experience with chillers, cooling towers, dry coolers, thermal storage, and hydronic loops
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PostedJan 13, 2026
ExperienceSenior
TypeFull-time
Work modelOn-site
What this hire signals
NVIDIA building cooling design into its internal stack (including Omniverse digital twins) — the company is becoming a full datacenter systems integrator, not just a chip vendor.
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