Staff Engineer, Data Center

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This role will be based in Hillsboro, OR. 

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

This role focuses on Field Engineering and owner-side Infrastructure Delivery, ensuring data center infrastructure is planned, built, validated, commissioned, and transitioned into reliable production operation.

The scope includes mechanical, electrical, cooling, liquid cooling, controls, low-voltage, and white space systems supporting high-density compute environments. You will provide both Construction Management (CM) oversight and Field Engineering (FE) leadership across system-level execution and physical infrastructure deployment activities in active construction and operational settings.

This position spans the full infrastructure lifecycle, including planning, construction execution, commissioning, turnover, and operational support for data center capacity. Success in this role requires the ability to balance technical requirements, field conditions, schedule, cost, safety, quality, and long-term operational reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the field engineering lead for data center infrastructure systems, ensuring technical validation, commissioning readiness, and operational performance.
• Own technical oversight of infrastructure system performance and integrity across mechanical, electrical, cooling, liquid cooling, and white space systems.
• Review engineering drawings, specifications, and submittals to identify system risks, constructability issues, and integration gaps.
• Provide field technical leadership for liquid cooling systems, including CDU operation, coolant distribution performance, controls integration, leak detection diagnostics, startup validation, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Validate field conditions and ensure installed systems meet design intent, technical standards, and operational requirements.
• Lead commissioning activities including startup, integrated systems testing, and operational readiness validation.
• Investigate field issues, installation conflicts, equipment deficiencies, and design discrepancies, driving timely resolution and corrective actions. 
• Perform root cause analysis and resolution of infrastructure performance issues across mechanical, electrical, and cooling systems.
• Partner with operations teams to support system reliability, optimization, and post-turnover performance improvement.
• Lead owner-side execution of data center infrastructure delivery, including white space buildouts, retrofits, capacity expansions, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Drive field execution of data center infrastructure deployments, ensuring mechanical, electrical, cooling, liquid cooling, networking, and supporting infrastructure systems are installed, integrated, and delivered in accordance with design and operational requirements. 
• Work directly with contractors, subcontractors, vendors, landlords, and commissioning teams to ensure successful infrastructure delivery. 
• Drive field execution planning, including sequencing, logistics coordination, constraints management, and installation readiness.
• Monitor construction progress, schedule performance, field risks, and installation quality; drive resolution of execution issues as needed.
• Support procurement and execution activities including scope definition, technical vendor evaluations, and bid reviews.
• Conduct site walks and field reviews to ensure alignment with design intent, safety requirements, and delivery objectives.
• Own punch-list closure, turnover documentation, as-built validation, and readiness for operational handoff.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Civil Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in field engineering, data center infrastructure delivery, commissioning, con