Lead Engineer, Critical Facility Operations
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Cerebras SystemsData center operations
Remote (US); Fully remoteFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant data center experience
Requirements
- Bring 10+ years of relevant data center experience, with substantial responsibility for live, mission-critical environments.
- Have deep expertise in environmental controls, including hands-on experience with Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs) and data center cooling systems.
- Have a strong practical understanding of data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure and how these systems interact.
- Be able to assess interconnected systems, recognize technical limitations, and engage qualified specialists when needed.
- Have working knowledge of data center white space, including servers, storage, networking equipment, racks, and associated data hall infrastructure.
- Have proven experience leading technical incident response, root cause analysis, commissioning, or operational acceptance activities.
- Have an engineering degree, relevant technical qualification, or equivalent practical experience.
- Be able to travel up to 50%; the role involves heavy site travel during the first year.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical escalation resource for physical infrastructure issues, partnering with site teams, lessors, manufacturers, service providers, and internal teams.
- Assess and troubleshoot CDUs and cooling systems, including flow, pressure, temperature, water quality, heat exchange, redundancy, and facility-to-equipment interfaces.
- Evaluate environmental monitoring and controls, including building management systems, electrical power monitoring, sensors, alarms, interlocks, and operating sequences.
- Lead technical investigation and root cause analysis for electrical and mechanical incidents, and develop corrective actions with verification criteria.
- Review maintenance strategies, operating procedures, proposed changes, and commissioning evidence for technical adequacy, risk, maintainability, and redundancy.
- Translate product requirements into operating limits and work with product teams to improve resilience and reliability.
- Assess prospective sites and provider proposals for redundancy, maintainability, controls, recovery capability, and operating commitments.
- Develop operational standards, approved operating limits, equipment-interface requirements, maintenance requirements, and facility-spares recommendations.
- Define and witness functional, failover, and recovery testing, verifying controls, alarms, and redundancy under normal and degraded conditions.
- Maintain operating documentation and technical baselines, review and approve work within delegated authority, and escalate unacceptable risks or unsafe conditions.
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