# Principal Engineer

Description OVERVIEW Cadrex is seeking a Principal Engineer who serves as the senior technical authority for the mechanical design, development, and industrialization of advanced data center rack systems, with a focus on OCP, Open Rack Platforms, and industry infrastructure standards. This role leads the development of scalable, cost-effective rack structures and mechanical subsystems for hyperscale computing, AI, and high-performance computing environments, leveraging expertise in structural design, sheet metal fabrication, welded assemblies, thermal management, and design for manufacturing. The Principal Engineer translates customer requirements and industry standards into manufacturable products, guiding designs from concept through validation and full-scale production. This position partners with customers, engineering, manufacturing, quality, suppliers, and operations while establishing technical standards, resolving complex engineering challenges, mentoring engineering talent, and advancing the company's data center infrastructure product portfolio. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Lead mechanical architecture, design, and development of data center rack systems and related infrastructur

- **Id**: 4026746
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cadrex-principal-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T15:13:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T17:13:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9383
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Contract Manufacturing, Metal Fabrication, Precision Engineering

## Company

- **Id**: 3832490
- **Name**: Cadrex
- **Domain**: cadrex.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cadrex>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Paylocity

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 21
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **FMEA** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T17:13:26Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 21
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T18:57:57Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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