Design Engineer

Position Title: Design Engineer

Location: Atlanta, GA

About the Role

Join the world’s leading data center experts and design solutions for some of the most innovative customers on the planet. As a Data Center Design Engineer, you will create detailed engineering packages addressing space, power, cooling, and connectivity requirements during the pre-sales and post sales process. You will act as a subject matter expert for assigned campuses or buildings, ensuring technical accuracy, consistency, and seamless transitions from sales to implementation.

This role combines technical design expertise and collaboration with Solutions Engineers, Portfolio Management and Operations teams to deliver optimized solutions that align with customer needs and company standards.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Solutions Engineers to understand customer business and technical needs.
• Design and deliver optimized whitespace, power, cooling, and connectivity solutions.
• Create engineering packages: drawings, floor plans, and technical documentation from Design Engineering Guidelines.
• Manage portfolio inventory in company inventory management tool. 
• Responsible for accurate AutoCAD records of inventory.  
• Conduct site surveys, due diligence, and indicative CFD analyses.
• Supporting RFPs and technical due diligence in collaboration with Solutions Engineers.
• Collaborate with sales, portfolio, and operations teams during all stages of the sales cycle.
• Act as the local Subject Matter Expert for assigned campuses: whitespace design, inventory, connectivity, pathways and capacity management.
• Support Implementation team with accurate engineering packages and Bill of Materials. 

What You’ll Need

• Education & Experience:
  • 3–5 years in a design environment (data centers, telecom, networking).
  • Preferred bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field. 
• Technical Expertise:
  • Proven design skills in high-density data centers (power, cooling, space optimization, airflow).
  • Familiarity with AI and High Density HPC requirements (GPUs, specialized processors) preferred. 
  • Familiarity in liquid cooling technologies and relevant best practices preferred.
  • Strong understanding of Data Center power distribution and UPS system standards.
  • Strong understanding of network cabling architecture, fiber optics, and connectivity solutions.
  • Knowledge of physical data center security. 
  • Proficiency with AutoCAD. CFD modeling preferred.
  • Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat.
• Soft Skills:
  • Excellent internal communications skills. Ability to support external customer calls. 
  • Ability to translate complex technical requirements into clear, actionable solutions.
  • Strong project management, critical thinking, and documentation skills.
  • Adaptability to fast-paced, ever changing global environments.
  • Commitment to customer service and cross-functional collaboration.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our Digital team 

Technology & Innovation

Our Technology & Innovation team strives to innovate alongside our customers and empower their businesses to thrive. We work closely with our customers to develop insights-based, data-driven technical solutions and differentiated value propositions on PlatformDIGITAL® across the world. Operating in almost 50 cities globally means we understand how rapidly the world is evolving, so we’ve built a best-in-class development model to qualify, package; and enable cloud to core to edge hybrid