Senior Data Center Design Mechanical Engineer

In response to Oracle’s continued growth and increased concurrent data center design and delivery programs, Oracle is recruiting a Principal Data Center Mechanical Engineer to provide technical leadership across mission critical data center projects.

This role serves as a principal mechanical design lead and owner-side technical authority responsible for ensuring that Oracle’s data center infrastructure is designed, evaluated, and delivered in alignment with Oracle’s performance, reliability, redundancy, scalability, and operational requirements. The role interfaces directly with Oracle’s internal stakeholders, colocation and data center partners, design consultants, equipment manufacturers, and cross-functional engineering teams.

The Principal Data Center Mechanical Engineer will support projects across site selection, technical due diligence, new construction, phased expansions, retrofits, upgrades, and high-density compute deployments. The position requires deep mechanical engineering expertise, strong mission critical facility experience, and the ability to translate Oracle’s IT equipment cooling needs into clear, enforceable building infrastructure requirements.

This role will have particular focus on mechanical infrastructure strategy, liquid cooling, owner’s performance requirements, design standards, design reviews, equipment qualification, and cross-discipline coordination with electrical, controls, architecture, structural, construction, hardware, networking, operations, and commissioning teams.

Responsibilities

1. Lead mechanical engineering design and technical direction for assigned data center projects, including new construction, colocation developments, phased expansions, retrofits, upgrades, and acquisition conversions. Provide owner-side engineering leadership to ensure projects meet Oracle’s technical, operational, reliability, redundancy, maintainability, and performance requirements. 
2. Support site selection and technical due diligence for prospective data center sites. Evaluate mechanical infrastructure risk, reliability, redundancy, resiliency, capacity, expandability, operational constraints, and alignment with Oracle’s performance and deployment requirements. Provide clear technical recommendations to support site selection, contracting, and project execution decisions. 
3. Develop and maintain owner’s performance requirements, mechanical basis of design criteria, specifications, design standards, and technical guidelines for data center mechanical systems. Translate Oracle’s business, operational, and IT equipment requirements into clear infrastructure requirements for design partners, colocation providers, consultants, contractors, and equipment manufacturers. 
4. Provide technical leadership for high-density compute and liquid cooling deployments, including direct-to-chip liquid cooling, technology cooling systems, cooling distribution units, heat rejection systems, water quality considerations, controls integration, deployment strategies, and scalable design approaches. Work with internal hardware and platform teams to understand ITE cooling requirements and translate those requirements into building infrastructure design criteria. 
5. Lead cross-functional coordination with electrical, controls, architecture, structural, plumbing, fire protection, hardware, networking, construction, commissioning, operations, procurement, and external design teams. Identify technical dependencies, resolve design conflicts, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive alignment across disciplines. 
6. Perform detailed design reviews for data centers being designed or built for Oracle. Review drawings, specifications, sequence of operations, CFD studies, equipment selections, calculations, controls narratives, commissioning documentation, and other technical deliverables to verify alignment with Oracle standards, design intent, operational expectations, and project-specific requirements. 
7. Work directly with colocation providers, consultants, contractors, and engineering partners to ensure mechanical systems are properly designed, specified, installed, commissioned, and capable of supporting robust data center operation. Provide technical direction and feedback throughout design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover. 
8. Lead mechanical equipment qualification and technical evaluation efforts for major data center systems and components. Work directly with equipment manufacturers to pre-qualify products for use on Oracle projects, including development of technical specifications, performance requirements, test scripts, factory witness testing protocols, review of submittals, evaluation of test results, and final technical feedback or sign-off. 
9. Identify and resolve complex mechanical and cross-functiona